Eyes of the West Indies West Indies | Updated May 02, 2008 I am on a boat, tied to a dock in a bay on the tiny island of Great Guana Cay in the Northern Bahamas. Troy Albury is untying lines and points out a Caribbean reef squid taking shelter under the dock...These animals, hued in purple and electric orange, can be difficult to spot during the day – their bodies are brilliant but translucent... Read Part I
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Rise Up Sweet Island West Indies | Updated Regularly The Epic struggle between a tiny islet and an american golf course developer. Rise Up Sweet Island is a blog within Notes from the Road that records one of the most challenging environmental struggles in the history of the West Indies. In 2005, a golf resort megadevelopment (Bakers Bay Club) began development on a tiny island called, ironically, Great Guana Cay. The building of the resort would mean certain death for the island's coral reef, nesting sea turtles, mangroves and culture.
The blog contains over 600 pages of supporting material, essays, legal documents, and scientific explanation.
Botanical History of the Antilles West Indies | June "Tupac Shakur lives on the other side of Mount Gimie," Philippe said, referring to St. Lucia's remote, largest mountain. "Some people in America think he is dead," but he added, "we know he is up there." Read It|Map it
Plastic Pirateships: Disney's Strange History on Guana Cay West Indies | June "...The dolphins stayed, a man was hired to feed them. Beaten by the sun, bruised, first spit on by small kids with bags of Cheetos that would end up in the sea and float to Cuba, then submitted to quarantined loneliness in the baking sun of shallow, dredge-silt water. Some lived, and were eventually shipped off to Nassau. But nobody noticed, because the plastic and spare parts of Treasure Island, abandoned, had already begun to break apart..." Read It|Map it
Mangrove Trail to Sandy Point West Indies | December "...Just looking under our feet, we see bounding schools of minnows. Deeper, sharks and fish of every ilk breed their young here. It is the safest place in the sea. The mangrove gathers nutrients and the tide flushes all that into the seas. The mangroves feed the sea grass and form the breeding ground for the coral reef. Life in the West indies then, begins here..." Read It|Map of west indies
Hopetown and the History of Island Settlement West Indies | June "...The castaway does not intend his fate, I wrote in my journal, and in most cases, his predicament ends in death. For the settler, however, there is a choice, and the choice necessitates a variety of skills and plans set up beforehand to cope with and then prosper in the islands. What skill-set is required to prosper in a place like this, with poor soil and blistering sun?..." Read It|Map it
Green Turtle Cay Micro update | West Indies | June "...New Plymouth is one of the many settlements where Americans loyal to the British, living beforehand primarily in Florida and New York, came to escape their shunned existence in America. For one reason or another, they chose allegiance to the British crown over the new republic. " Read It |Map of west indies
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