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 2009
  • Portugal and Spain
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 2008
  • Hawaii Big Island
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  • Manzanillo, Mexico
 
 2007
  • Caribbean Islands
  • England and France
 
 2006
  • Ixtapa, Mexico
  • RV North Prairies
  • Ixtapa / Puerto Vallarta
 
 2005
  • Cabo San Lucas
  • RV Great Basin
 
 2004
  • Puerto Vallarta
  • RV Southwest
  • RV Washington
 
 2003
  • Guadeloupe
  • RV Northwest
  • RV Yellowstone
  • Fiji via Hawaii
 

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Susie

 
 2004
  • New Year's
  • Thanksgiving
  • Christmas Ski Bachelor
 
 2003
  • Gramma Visit
  • Christmas Ski Whistler
 

 

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Saint François Flora and Fauna Nightlife Petite Terre Day Trip

 

A visit to Guadeloupe in the French West Indies ...

 

Page Four ~ A Day Trip

Natural Reserve of Ilets de la Petite Terre

on board the catamaran "Tip Top Two"

 

Captain Guillaume of the Tip Top Two

       
Granny reading  on the way

Under sail      

The cross at Pointe des Chateaux

At the southeastern tip of Grande-Terre

 

 
The Tip Top Two at buoy between Terre de Bas and Terre de Haut, the two main islands of Ilets de la Petite Terre

 

       

 

Map showing the nature trail in red

No human activity is allowed away from the trail or on the other  islands

       

A lagoon surrounded by coral reef

 

Granny on the cliff

Surf coming up through the holes in the coral reef

  The Lighthouse,     no longer occupied

 

 

The terrain of

Terre de Bas

The Century Plant

which only blooms after ten to seventy years, then dies

The giant bloom can grow almost a foot a day

 

Century Plant blooms filled with Bananaquits and bees eating nectar

At night, the Century Plant is also pollinated by bats

 

 

Granny contemplates a Century Plant and his 100th year in 2034

 

 

This bee was the size of  a hummingbird

   

The white sand beach and the Tip Top Two

 

We also saw the green Antillean Iguana in heavy scrub cover

This was one of the nature trail signs

 
       

These Bananaquits were landing on       Mary Jane's hat and almost landed on her outstretched finger

       

Granny at rest

Hermit Crabs were everywhere in the sand

       
       

The Green Sea Turtle and the Blowfish arrive  for some lunch scraps
       
       

Looking across the islands to La Désirade in the distance
       

   
Under way again Returning to the  marina at Saint François
 
 
 
Now read Granny's  The Orphan and the Boot Go to Guadeloupe
 
 
Saint François Flora and Fauna Nightlife Petite Terre Day Trip
 

 
           
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