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As a writer and photographer I travel between my life in Toronto, my life in Antigua, and anywhere else my wanderings may take me ... writing my books and enjoying local arts and adventures along the way.
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 Today I went out to York Island with Karron, along with another EAG board of directors member named Ashton Williams, and the field technicians Shawn and Tahambay who are always an integral part of the excursions onto the islands. The purpose of this excursion was to bait and monitor traps to keep rats off the island in order to protect the ecology of the island.  One of the things I remember most about the time I spent in Antigua during my childhood are seeing flowers everywhere around my Grandparent’s house. After surfing I walked past the remnants of a mangrove swamp. “These are whistling ducks” he said of the brown ducks we passed. “They are endangered but their starting to make a little bit of a comeback”. My friend, a local, paused to watch them “I tell you … man do they ever taste good” he said. Photographing birds on a snorkeling adventure to Great Bird Island with Antigua Adventure. Accompanying the EAG on a tough hike during a working trip to check the rat detection system on the ecologically sensitive Green Island offshore of Antigua and Barbuda.  I’ll be on my current book-writing trip in Antigua for quite a few months. Since I’ll be here for awhile I have the chance to venture out around Antigua and to learn a little more about Antigua’s ecology.  |
  
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