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The 'Booms'

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The bass notes were played with these large pieces of bamboo, all but one of the joints get knocked out. Sounds pretty cool. Often, a stick would be hit against the side of it for some variation.

Modern Day Bands

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Tamboo and Brass and String fused in playing Carnival mas. The mixing of sounds spurred further development and experimentation with new instruments. Some of the smaller pieces of bamboo are called the foule and chandler.

Turtle Watching

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Almost forgot about this, we went to see the giant leatherback sea turtles lay eggs. They're super cool up close, I got to hold this little guy.

FOOD!

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Probably the best meal I've had down here so far. Starting with the beans (bottom) going clockwise: baked beans with spices, amazing, Creole lasagna, real good, hadn't had beef for a while, above that, fried chicken with a nice sweet white sauce, potato salad, though not as good as my mom's, this was tasty, underneath the green stuff, a mild non-greasy fried rice, which went wonderfully well with the calaloo, one of my favorite foods I've had down here. Mishmash of everything, hopefully I can make it at home. And I cant forget the juice, amazing, absolutely amazing, fresh oranges, grapefruit and pineapple. Indescribable.

Sceaming Bloody Murder

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At first I thought it was a bunch of kids playing next door, but then it just sounded nasty...oh yeah, that's what pigs sound like. Here's the piglets, brings back fond memories of last semester with the analysis of swine production on excel...

The Crew

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From Right: Lennon, Shivana and Kezia (UWI to UW exchange students), Isaiah, me and Lauren (UW to UWI students), Gayatri (another UWI to UW gal), Kezia's mom, Mary, and a friend of Kezi's in d back.

Butterfly and Orange

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This little guy had one hell of a proboscis, and he was going to town on this orange opened up by a bird.

Green Oranges?

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Most of the oranges down here are ripe when they're green or yellow, few actually turn orange. I believe this variety is a hybrid of portuagals and some type of orange...

Chatigne

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These weren't ripe yet, but when they are you can use the seed to make...something. Soup, maybe.

Sunset

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Nice clear blue skys outside the city. It's weird...nowhere seems all that developed, but there's enough air and light pollution that it's pretty hard to see the stars on campus. Not out here, it was amazing out turtle watch...side note.

Sugar Cane Anyone?

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Suck some fresh sugar cane, it be real good. First it has to be burnt, then to process it quick for eating, just peel the outside off and chew away. Pretty good, real sweet, good flavor-not what you'd expect of a dark vine looking thing.

Bunch of Photogs

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We all had out camera's, some of us two...this second round or photos is from Carlos' library.

Albino Peacock

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Not that they're native to T&T, but it is beautiful.

Blue and Gold Macow

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They have a few pairs at the trust, they mate for life and Isaiah claims they eat better than he did all semester. That's more on his lack of being able to feed himself properly though.

Rainbow Python

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Trinis are a bit squeamish around snakes, I was all for hold the guy.

Crahsin' the Pool

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Mitch liked rough waters.

Red Lights

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Apparently the turtles cannot see red very well, so we had to hold off with pictures until they began to lay...they enter a trance like state and don't care that anyone is around them.

And the Laying Begins

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Along with flash photography...

This was a smaller one...

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The biggest found was over 1000 lbs, but what we saw were more on the 300-400 lb size of things.