An Aloe Flower

Aloe plants put up spires of fire during the winter

Ornamental ginger flowers. These remind me of brightly colour ballerinas dancing the Can-Can!

An old Bermuda house with a wooden balcony on Water Street in the Old Town of St George.

Hibiscus

Hibiscuses are a common sight in Bermuda, in gardens and along the road side. But this one was interesting because half the individual flower was peachy and half was yellow!

Evening Splash

Someone taking advantage of the calm evening, jumping off of the public dock on Harrington Sound. The Aquarium in Flatts is in the background.

Lizard Babe

A baby Jamaican Anole that I saved from the clutches of my kitten's jaws! (Then willingly placed on a pretty hibiscus.)

These lizards are common sights in Bermuda, although they were introduced and form part of a long and faily silly chain: Fruit flies were a nuisance so the anole was introduced. But when a tiny cedar scale insect was introduced by mistake on imported Christmas trees and decimated the endemic Bermuda Cedar trees, no biologicial control could be established because of these lizards. So the yellow Kiskadee was introduced to take care of the lizards. Now these are the biggest problem - it turned out they didn't even like lizards that much but ate pretty much anything else.

Oh, and we still have fruit flies and the cedars sorted themselves out anyway with a resistant strain becoming dominant!

Caribbean Flamingos

A Visit to the Zoo

In fact, this is the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo. It showcases local fish and also animals from other islands. These are the Caribbean Flamingos. In the early 1990's some were bred and placed back in the wild to begin a new breeding colonies.