Skywatching in Tobago
You can drive around Tobago in a day. You can fly there in the morning – the first flight from Trinidad puts you on the ground before...
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...
Jean-Jacques Fougère-Audubon: The Bird Man
Think of birds, and you think of Audubon. But who was he? Caroline Popovic finds out The founders of the Audubon Society named their august...
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...
Where Nature Lives
Eerie, pinpoint flashes of light lanced the all-embracing darkness as driver-cum-tourist guide Mark Blanset brought the large, open-sided...
Letter from Barbuda
The boatman cut the outboard motor and the sudden silence was pierced only by the cries of thousands of frigate birds as they wheeled and...
Barbados for Kids
Okay, so when you were single, you stayed at Sandals. Barefoot in the sand, rum punches at sunset, tropical moonlight silvering the...
