Dominica's Rain Forest Fashion Display

The Record, Bergen County, NJ (September 12, 2004)

Author: Gary Lee, The Washington Post
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Summary:

The bananaquit was first up. Strutting across the table outside my cabana as if it were a catwalk, the tiny tropical bird inched almost close enough for me to touch its lemon-yellow belly, then glided off.

Anne Jean-Baptiste, co-owner and chief botanist at the Papillote Wilderness Retreat, dropped her spade with the look of someone who had witnessed this ritual before. "Ah," she said, smiling. "Your own personal fashion show has started."

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Dominica's Rain Forest Fashion Display

And so it had. A blue-headed hummingbird fluttered by next, followed by a ringed kingfisher with a rust-colored stomach and a peacock spreading its magnificent span of blue, green, turquoise, and brown feathers. Then came the butterflies, fluttering in a sweep of deep blues, oranges, and yellows. The backdrop of plant life - from white and pink orchids to heliconias, begonias, elephant ears, and jade vine, with its extraordinary aquamarine flowers - was a spectacle all its own.

I had come to Dominica for this. With more than half of its ...



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