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Cool documentary about the "Wild Islands" of the Caribbean:




Edit: In a whimsical mood here, so I'm adding some pics before posting some stuff about Jamaican streamer-tailed hummingbirds in a separate post.

Here's from the actual beginning of the video:

I love those beautiful white sand beaches that they have out in Southeast Asia as well.


Some of the cool stuff besides footage of the islands:

Baby sea turtles around 7:00-9:00ish.

Hummingbirds, tree frogs, coral reefs, humpback whales.

Psycho cave bats (and the snakes that eat them when they fly out of their caves on Mount Tamana in Trinidad, and smack the snakes in the face).
Mangrove swamps, fiddler crabs, scarlet ibis, capuchin monkeys.

Also, "Lesser Antillean Iguanas" (LOL) that use floating vegetation as rafts to float across the sea and go colonize other islands. + Bonus "how to be the alpha male on Dominica" footage where the dominant male iguanas turn dark grey and make macho head-bobbing motions to keep rivals away, so they can keep a burrow full of a harem of green female iguanas for themselves.

Good stuff.

Check out these guys: Streamertail Hummingbirds, which are native to Jamaica.

Brace yourselves for a solid wall of visual positivity (unless the image hosting site deletes my pics, LOL):

Antigua and Barbuda:





Barbados:





Dominica (the nature island, not the Dominican Republic):





Dominican Republic (@Lucas88 you'd probably like it here!):

Las Terenas:




The Twenty-Seven Waterfalls:


Fort El Morro:


Jamaica (FYI @Pixel--dude):

Montego Bay


Ys Falls


Cranbrook Flower Forest:


Green Grottoe Caves:



Montserrat:




Is that not beautiful? That is not my own picture but those are the kinds of sights you can see if you decide to get interested in being a sailor.



St Kitts & Nevis




Saint Lucia: