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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.
Guana Cay weblog
Introduction to the Conflict
Current Press
Eyes of the West Indies
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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..."
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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..."
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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?..."
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Bahamas Barrier Reef
Micro update | West Indies | June
"...Most
rays are bottom dwellers. The spotted eagle ray, one of the largest in the family, is more pelagic, and often swims
in packs of two or more. The pacific leopard ray species is known to swim
in packs of 30 or more..."
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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. "
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Chub Rock Wreck
Micro update | West Indies | May
"...I
remembered the old days - the eight foot green moray - and the day Eddie
and Cathy and I plunged off the Sea Queen near Chub Rock and visited the
old sunken steamer to snap some shots for a dive shop promotion..."
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