Another page of images collected while exploring hither and yon.

0223   This is a "Cattle Egret" - another old friend I recognised from Kenya where we called them "Tick Birds" - they hang out near cattle (or Buffalo or Zebra) and eat the insects on or around these animals.

8673   The main street downtown is not very long. One of the stores is this grocery store - not a supermarket but a real old-time grocery store where you ask for stuff and the lady behind the counter picks it off the shelf and stacks it with the rest of your purchases next to the cash register.

8973   This creature belonged to a small shop just up the street - he lay sunning himself in the doorway, his job was to greet the occasional customer.

9032   Main Street also has a restaurant - quite lurid from the outside but simple and plain on the inside.

8734   The road to the east end of the island - at this point it still has two lanes.

8750   Images on signs help when you don't speak the local language.

8780   At the very eastern end of the island.

8868   These are the trees that nightnares are made of - twisted grotesquely and hiding witches no doubt.

8883   Norfolk Pines forming a windbreak for a coffee plantation. The red dirt is the same as that around coffee plantations in Kenya. Laterite (or murram as it is called in Africa) contains a significant proportion of clay and is very slippery when wet. In the rainy season, it may be difficult even for four-wheel drive vehicles to avoid slipping off very cambered roads into the ditch

8886   A puddle of standing water in a road made of red soil - a trap for the unwary.

8889   Civilized behaviour requires that you maintain a manicured lawn - even if your house is falling down.

8893   This restaurant in the middle of the island came highly recommended for local cuisine. The pace of the service was indeed very relaxed...

8922   Contemplation of the Pacific Ocean - what lands lie beyond the horizon?

8923   Last one in is a sissy...

8926   If there is a wave breaking, nature demands that you jump into it.

8929   Deserted beach as far as the eye can see. Only the presence of footprints on the beach tells us we are not alone on the island.

8989   Salt air takes it's toll on vehicles. This one had been donated to a local museum. It once belonged to a local plantation owner whose estate donated it to the museum.

8990   A museum specimen of the Cook's Pine. Similar to the Norfolk Pine, it doesn't grow as high but has better symmetry.

9075   At low tide it is apparent that this nice sandy beach leads to a rocky road for the unwary paddler. (That was just at this end of the cove, further up the beach it was all sand.)

9094   Looking toward the center of the island, the mountains rise up and reach for the clouds. Around these mountains at the higher elevations is lush rain-forest.

9100   Not far from downtown is a municipal park along the water's edge. On weekends you may see a few people enjoying it, but on a weekday is is pretty much deserted.

8967   Every evening we tried for a decent sunset picture with which to end this album - but the weather Gods were of little help in that respect.

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