A Very True Observer: Philip Henry Gosse
Life was not easy for Philip Henry Gosse in the early 1840s. He trained for a career as a naturalist, but it was a tough way to make a...
Little Tobago: Counting the Birds of Paradise
There may or may not be a portrait of Queen Victoria looking down on the chaps at Britain’s Scientific Exploration Society, but the fact...
Winston Nanan and the Caroni Swamp
When he was 11, Winston Nanan’s father pulled him out of school and sent him into the swamp. It should have been an inauspicious...
Netwatch
The Caribbean is one of the most popular topics on the web, and many Caribbean websites show the breathtaking beauty of the islands in rich...
Who Put the Pepper in the Vaseline?
Ever had a yearning for Pomacanthus paru or a Chaetodon striatus? Those are the Latin names for the French Angel and Banded Butterfly...
Montserrat: Mountains of Ash
It was difficult to grasp the fact that it was possible to walk across the verandah and through the shutters straight into a first-floor...
It’s Playback Time
My compact disc player had become something of a snob. It had suddenly stopped recognising certain CDs. I would put in a disc, and it would...
How to Name a Hummingbird
From the first, Europeans thought them quite startling. “Little birds,” remarked Columbus in 1492, when he first arrived in the New...
