"C'mere de white guy i'lift you up!"

It seems as though Breadfruit is a staple on the island, and our trees in our yard seem to be the only ones producing now.(Breadfruit is more than a vegetable than a fruit, it is used like a potato with meals)  Every week we have different neighbors that ask to pick some.  The first week they came prepared with a 25ft long stick that they used to pick the fruit off the high branches....yesterday the stick must have gone missing!

(This is a Breadfruit Tree)



A neighbor lady came into the yard to ask if she could take some breadfruit, of course we said 'yes' but she had no way to reach them because the only ones left are now higher up the tree. It didn't take her long to formulate a plan and she hollered at one of the local boys to come over so "the white guy i'lift you up"! Kris came in the house shaking his head and smiling, "did you hear that?". So Kris politely obliged and lifted the boy up to reach the breadfruit.

More Wildlife

A few weeks ago I joined a few of my friends at Oualie Beach for a Sunday afternoon.  Most of them have kids and this beach is perfect because it is in a cove where there isn't a strong tide and the water stays very shallow, even a long way out. 

A few of the girls decided to walk down the shorline to an area full of rocks, to try and find some shells.  Instead of shells, they came back with a Sea Slug!!!  At first glance(from a distance) I thought the girls had a handful of seaweed and the slug was probably on top of it....but as they got closer, I realised that the entire lump of green slime that they were holding was the actual slug!!!Gross!!!

I think I will take the cold Canadian winters anyday, over the insects and critters you live with everyday in the Caribbean!

Wildlife on Nevis

I didn't mention it in my last blog post, but at our party we had couple uninvited guests(and I don't mean the local kids!).  We were all enjoying a spot around the fire when a huge commotion broke out and people started screaming.  I was sitting on the other side of the fire and couldn't really see what was going on until it was over.  When I made my way through the crowd that was gathered around our cement parking pad, this is what I saw..................

A giant centipede!

This one was squashed by our friend Brian and he had to stomp on it three times and twist, before it actually quit moving!!! Scary....considering that they are poisonous too!!!

Here's a photo with Katelyn's foot in it so you can see the size of this thing!