On our way back from the snorkel tour we swung past this
very strange sight. A tiny island covered in multi-story houses. The residents
say they live there because there’s no mosquitos. With beautiful carribean
waters all around, and two other islands near by they can escape their self
imposed urban exile fairly easily. The island has electricity, satellite TV, a
school and reportedly, a restaurant. The islands residents are expanding their domain
by adding garbage to the edges of the island. If you’ve seen Kevin Costner’s
Waterworld, you have a pretty good idea of the concept. It is like some imaginative
future fiction story to see an island as populated as a urban high rise out in
the middle of a chain of palm lined islets. I suspect you, dear reader, are
wondering as we did where the drinking water comes from and where the effluvia
goes… I think the fresh water comes by boat in large plastic containers as I
spied a few boats with what looked like water jugs aboard. The other matter…
I’ll leave to your imagination.
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