Walter Eddy
Walter Eddy of Spring City, Tenn., is this weeks Take Us Along winner. He took Tennessee Auto & RV along on a trip to Antigua and is shown in the port of Antigua in the southern Caribbean. Eddy was on an 11-day cruise at the time.
Antigua is a small island composed of 108 square miles and is home to some 85,000 people. The temperature is almost perfect with lows of 76 degrees and highs of 85 degrees. Trade winds and very little rain combine for an ideal vacation area. There are 365 beaches on the island. The capital and largest port is St. Johns.
Located in the Leeward Islands, Antigua has a twin island, Barbuda. These two islands, separated by only a few miles, along with several smaller ones, make up the nation.
The island was originally called Wa-ladli and is still called Wadadli by some of the locals. It is thought Christopher Columbus may have named it Santa Maria la Antigua when he was there in 1493. The Spanish, however, did not claim the island. The British settled there in 1632, and except for a brief French interlude in 1666, the British ruled the island until 1981.
In November of 1981 the island became an independent state within the British Commonwealth Realm.
Thanks for taking us along!