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Central America???
Where is it?
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Tjack
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How bout Atlantic?
Getting warm, getting closer, but not the Atlantic. Maybe I'm not playing fair. When I made my one post that turned out to be correct I didn't know that my turn was next. I had to go back to the beginning of the string to get the rules. .
Most of my pics are old. You know, film. The place I posted does not look that way anymore. The lovely little island is still there. They will soon begin building condominium apartments on it, starting at $400,000. Those fisherman were displaced long ago. They've grown old, live with their sons and granddaughters who work in the hotels. I visit, drink white rum, laugh at the world. I don't go in the water. It was too painful when I did. I remember it when it was a phenomenon that drew people from the Coral Reef Alliance to try to save it. Spectacular, an emerald set in green velvet.
The offshore reefs that created that placid clear limpid lagoon are gone, as is much of the powder soft coral sand and all of the dense rainforest. It used to be that there was no direct road in. You had to get there by boat. Now there's a highway, the construction of which killed off much of the coral reef. It was an important Leatherback sea turtle nesting area. Now it draws spring break MTV. "Pave paradise, put up a parking lot." Enough clues?
Most of my pics are old. You know, film. The place I posted does not look that way anymore. The lovely little island is still there. They will soon begin building condominium apartments on it, starting at $400,000. Those fisherman were displaced long ago. They've grown old, live with their sons and granddaughters who work in the hotels. I visit, drink white rum, laugh at the world. I don't go in the water. It was too painful when I did. I remember it when it was a phenomenon that drew people from the Coral Reef Alliance to try to save it. Spectacular, an emerald set in green velvet.
The offshore reefs that created that placid clear limpid lagoon are gone, as is much of the powder soft coral sand and all of the dense rainforest. It used to be that there was no direct road in. You had to get there by boat. Now there's a highway, the construction of which killed off much of the coral reef. It was an important Leatherback sea turtle nesting area. Now it draws spring break MTV. "Pave paradise, put up a parking lot." Enough clues?
coldwaterlloyd
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Belize ... ?
If you were able to identify the snake species you would have most of it. It's an endemic, and it's common name has a place reference since it's only found there. A rare, endangerd species, classified in the most highly protected category by CITES. Hard to find one even then. Bit the hell out of me, but I got the photo, and the snake. Beautiful creature. I kept in in my room the whole summer I lived in the then tiny fishing village, to everyone's horror. Fed it bats and mice. Some of those fishermen could freedive to more than 50 feet and spear fish. A mask (a 'glass' they called it), and primitive fins.
coldwaterlloyd
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It looks like an Argentine Python ... but I do not think there are Coral Reefs down there ?
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Jamacia?
Bingo Lionfish-eater. Jamaica it is. Jamaica, along with Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hispanola (Haiti/Dominican Republic) is one of the greater Antilles, a very big island, so the rules, as I understand them, require that the specific place in Jamaica be identified. Should be easy. Coldwaterlloyd, the 'serpent', as Jamaicans say, the Yellow Snake as they call it, is a Jamaican Boa, Epicrates subflavus. Never heard of them? Very few people have. But they still are there, mostly in and around caves, like the last Arawaks 400 years ago. I correspond with people involved in a breeding project to keep them from going extinct, here in the US, and in the UK and Germany. I went to Jamaica with a small group of Herpetologists 8 years ago. Very interesting. I know nothing of herpetology, but I can understand and speak deep Jamaican Patois. Surprises the hell out of some people.
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