Posts Tagged ‘Fall 2008’
Natural History
Talking Taino: The Book
By Bill Keegan & Betsy Carlson
It seems like yesterday, but five years have now passed since we began writing our column called “Talking Taíno” for Times of the Islands. Our goal has been to use the words of the original inhabitants of the Caribbean, known as Taínos when Europeans arrived, to highlight Caribbean natural history, then and now. Editor Kathy Borsuk embraced our idea, and has been a huge supporter of our musings. We’re so pleased to
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Kim Mortimer photographed this incredible scene of a sunlit room in the back of a cave on East Caicos.This photo involved transporting all the equipment across the Caicos Islands and through the thick native bush to the entrance of the cave in the middle of uninhabited East Caicos. Then the gear was floated on a raft and swum up the canyon-like waterway to the end of the cave. The shot was actually taken in six feet of water using a remote control shutter release, and required the tripod, Nikon D200 camera and Kim to be precariously balanced on some underwater rocks.
