Eating Live Sea Urchin on Barbados’s Rugged Shore The tide comes in hard on the Atlantic side of Barbados. There […]
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Trinidad Emerges as a Caribbean Nature Destination Say “Trinidad” to most travelers and a fairly narrow set of associations comes […]
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Sailing Les Saintes Archipelago Guadeloupe The wind off Guadeloupe’s southern coast has a name and a reputation. The alizé—the trade […]
Read moreThe Last Crossing: Fishing at Cuba’s Edge
Deep Sea Fishing Off Cuba’s Jardines de la Reina The channel between the reef and the open sea has no […]
Read morePaddling the Mangrove Labyrinth of Martinique
Kayaking Martinique’s Caravelle Peninsula Mangroves The channel narrows gradually rather than suddenly, which is the disorienting thing. You are paddling […]
Read moreInto the Throat of La Soufrière
Hiking La Soufrière Volcano in St. Vincent The sulfur hits you before you see anything. It rises from the earth […]
Read moreNight Dive in Trinidad’s Leatherback Corridor
Tracking Leatherback Sea Turtles on Trinidad’s North Coast You hear them before you see them—or rather, you hear the ocean […]
Read moreInto the Throat of La Soufrière
Hiking La Soufrière Volcano in St. Vincent The sulfur hits you before you see anything. It rises from the earth […]
Read moreAcross the Island: Dominica’s End-to-End Traverse
Hiking Dominica’s Waitukubuli National Trail End to End On the third morning of the Waitukubuli National Trail, my boots were […]
Read moreThe Last Fishermen of Barbuda’s Codrington Lagoon
Barbuda’s Codrington Lagoon: Fishing an Endangered Caribbean World The flat-bottomed skiff moves through the channels of Codrington Lagoon before sunrise, […]
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