isited the sandbar that is Stingray City on Sunday…it doesn’t matter how often I go there – I love it!! These Southern Atlantic Stingrays swim up as soon as a boat arrives – especially if it is bringing their favourite food – squid! The males are the small ones – and the females can be [...]

It is 11.30pm, Tuesday, September 16th and I have just had the experience of a lifetime! I have sat on the beach for the last 2 hours and watched while a turtle laid her eggs, covered the nest with sand and returned to the sea – fabulous! We missed her arrival and most of the digging [...]

veryone is different – but they’re all beautiful!!

here are some fabulous birds on the island…from the tiny Bananaquit – which won’t stay still long enough for me to take a photo…to these!

y first trip locally was a few weeks ago – to Havana, Cuba, for a long weekend. (I say mine – because Bill has already travelled to several destinations from here on business so has seen much more of the area! He was, of course, in Havana too!!) It is a fascinating place. The old [...]

ne of my favourite places on the island is the Botanic Park – home of the blue iguana recovery programme – and the colour garden with some fabulously exotic, colourful, tropical flowers. They are so pretty! There is a pond around the gazebo with waterlilies and there is also a lake full of fresh water [...]

ne of the rarest iguanas in the world lives only on Cayman. The Blue Iguana is an endangered species and the Recovery Programme is working to ensure that their numbers in the wild are increasing again. To find out more – go to the link on the right of the page. Here are some of [...]

ust up this morning and the sea here is continuing to roll in on the tail of Hurricane Ike (a bit different to the calm sea in the photos I took at the weekend!!) – can’t help thinking about all the poor people we saw in Havana and wondering how they can come out of [...]

his is a pretty busy season for hurricanes – poor Cuba is having more than its fair share of them. As it passes over Cuba it is sending us the backlash – the sea is quite high and its rather windy. We all breathe a sigh of relief as we see a hurricane move or [...]

ust spent our first weekend in our new apartment – it is fabulous! Check out the photos!