Nature And Traveller In The Caribbean.

Nature shows off to the traveller in the Caribbean. Start in the cayman islands and she introduces you to some of her prize travellers, the turtles that swim thousands of miles to these sandy shores to lay their eggs.

Watch Neptune's gliders, the "flying" fish, skimming the tips of Waves as you make for Jamaica and sail into one of the world's great natural harbours.

Go ashore and see huge crawling monsters clawing out mountains of bauxite from which will come aluminum, silver from clay , to be made into kitchen utensils and tomorrow's jumbo jet.

Don't miss seeing the phenomenal lush growth of a tropical rainforest, on Dominica, where the tree canopy blots out the sun.

On Barbados stand and watch the Atlantic ',s majestic rollers crashing against the foot of the islands northern rock -face ,, tossing up spray twice the height of the cliffs. There too you will marvel, as elsewhere, at the unimaginable number of tiny coral insects that had to live and die to form these miles of bright clean sands, reefs and whole coral islands.

Drive over the wild moon landscape of the crater of St. Lucia's soufriere volcano, it's deafening Jets of steam showing it is not yet dead, only sleeping.

Then take your pictures, as everyone does, of the island's twin sugar -loaf mountains rising 800 metres sheer out of Sea, and move on, perhaps flying over the volcanoes of St Vincent and Grenada, their craters now occupied by lakes, to busy Trinidad. Here see the pitch lake , sir Walter Raleigh used to waterproof his ship's hulls, and which today, after four hundred years, still supplies asphalt for our roads.

And these ships in the bay? Nature will fill them again and again with the oil she has made from the remains of living things that lived here long before history.

Now step over to south America and see one final marvel, Guyana's kaieteur falls, five times the height of Nigeria, a spectacular end to an unforgettable

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