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East from St Lawrence Gap, Oistins is the main town along the
south coast and one of its less visited parts. A couple of
buses run here from Bridgetown, as does route taxi 11,
which continues to Siler Sands.
The unusual name is a corruption of Austin, one of the first
landowners in the area, described by an early historian as "a wild,
mad drunken fellow, whose lewd and extravagant carriage made him
infamous in the island".
Austin is long gone, but it's still a busy little town, dominated by
a fish market, that retains an authentic sense of Barbados before
the tourist boom.
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The best time to visit is in the evening, when a dozen shacks in the
central Bay Garden sell fried fish straight from the boats, and on
Friday nights hundreds of people descend for a "lime", the local
term for a social gathering.
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