The Carribean, Visions of an Island Realm, a gallery (3 images)

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RESIDENT CONDUCTOR OF THE TRADE WINDS SYMPHONY

ST. THOMAS, UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS

Relaxing in Caribbean hammocks and looking up at various kinds of island flora, I have wondered why the sound of wind in leaves isn't given a higher status on the music charts.         

"The Great Coco Key Sand Wing" 

Bahamas

 

The beautiful white beaches of the Caribbean and Bahamian Islands are primarily coral sand.

When ocean currents move through straits between islands the sand can be swept into long graceful streamers.

This one appears as if the sea is in a dream of flight.

"Freighter Long Aground in the Twilight"

Turks and Cacos Islands

 

Imagine how the captain of this freighter felt when either he or his crew failed to note how close they were to an offshore sand reef not unlike the one pictured above, which grounded the ship so firmly that it has been stranded there for years.

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