(Newswire.net — December 19, 2014) Bridgetown, ST. MICHAEL — The old saying goes, “you can take a horse to water, but you can’t make them drink.” Watching Barbados tourism authority Ian R. Clayton’s new GoPro video makes a convincing and entertaining argument that getting a horse just to go in the water for a dip isn’t so easy either.
“I’m having a lot of fun with my GoPro Hero 3 and I thought a series of Barbados based videos could be really exciting,” commented Clayton. “This first one of a trainer trying to get his horse to walk in the water using everything from cajoling to horse whispers is bound to make most people smile.”
According to Clayton, travel channels, like BarbadosTravel on Youtube, are becoming hot properties in tourism, and the lively and spontanious GoPro videos are sure to make it even more popular. Videos and especially GoPro action videos are becoming vitally important for tourism destination and the sky is the limit for the possibilities of the camera’s use in Barbados and other Island adventure destinations.
This video documents a horse handler trying to convince and coerce a Barbados race horse into the water on Carlisle Beach. Horse trainers often take their racehorses to the beach for a run and a swim in the early morning and on this occasion a humorous series of begs, prods, pulls, pushes and horse whispers follows as one handler tries to entice a young filly into the sea. He finally meets his goal in a way that’s quite unexpected. It is just one of the many things visitors to the Island see on their Barbados holidays.
To see how this filly is persauded into the water see the full video at http://barbados.org/horsewhispers/
The page also provides information and links to activities for the independent minded traveller. It features a special holiday package with self catered villa accommodation at Settlers Beach and a heritage tour to St. Nicholas Abbey. Settlers Beach is the premier Villa Hotel on the Island. Nicholas Abbey is one of the most popular heritage attractions in Barbados and the only working Jacobean historic plantation in the world. The tour includes a vintage film of life in the early settlement days, and an animated tour of the historic home, the refinery and the plantation sugar and rum processing as it was in the age of steam and wind power. St. Nicholas Abbey has over 225 acres of sugar cane fields as part of the 400 acre estate, which also includes thick woods of mahogany trees, gullies and archaeology digs and artifacts.
Be sure to visit the page at http://barbados.org/horsewhispers/ to see how this horse gets into the water and learn about the special heritage package.
About Barbados Tourism Encyclopedia
The Barbados Tourism Encyclopedia and its website http://barbados.org is the leading tourism information resource on this Caribbean island, providing holiday information to travellers all over the world.