Haiti - The Final Countdown

From a peek around the exit door, before getting the hell out of there,

to a 5 days booking at the Eucalyptus Guest House my 'short' visit to

Port-au-Prince

just seemed to go on and on (as some of you might have already noticed).

Whatever the magnetism that kept me there for a full 18 days is still not quite understood

but Pink Floyd (slightly amended to fit the bill) may have described it thus........

There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
for I had become comfortably numb

Comfortabley Numb - Pink Floyd

 

That last day had been turned over to 2 very kind invitations from those people
found close to me on a daily basis and was most excited about taking a look at
Scott's Heli-pad Project

even though he had advised not to build my hopes too high.

The TEAM
Scott second from left

 and the already flatened area of the 'pad'.
Again we will interspurse these images with some of the wildlife on hand
and starting with the very best as
Striking,

 Diminutive
and

Endemic
BROAD-BILLED TODY

 What these various buildings were designated to  become was not divulged

The next Bird was even smaller as the second smallest on
Planet Earth
VERVAIN HUMMINGBIRD
second only to the
Cuban Bee Hummingbird
which my 2 efforts to see have come to nought and now likely never will?
Yer Never Get 'Em All!

 as this was really just an overall look-see at what was underway.

BLACK and WHITE WARBLER

 TRANSPORT MANAGER

 The Nuptuals Stop for No Man!

YELLOW-FACED GRASSQUIT

 Exotic

BUTTERFLY

SMOOTH-BILLED ANI

BURROWING OWL

Diverted to Luton

BUTTERFLY
The second part was to become something of a
Farewell Party at one of the most Bizzare locations ever seen,
but a fantastic opportunity to show my appreciation of these
beautiful people who had helped, guarded and nurtured me every step of the way!

A fabulous Restaurant cum Beer bar cum Musichall

LIZARD

most of the construction came from materials that might,

in another part of the world, have be thrown away - MAGIC!

PALMCHAT

CRICKET
not surprising really as we were in the Greater Antilles right next door to
The West Indies

HISPANIOLA WOODPECKER

another Butterfly looking every bit like the 'Skippers' we get at home

COMMON YELLOWTHROAT

Introducing the Band 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ4ACcaOBoM

from the album

Dog Man Star by Suede
if you never listern to another record in your life this is a must if ony for the sensational
Brett Anderson vocals and Bernard Butler on lead guitar

That's all that was needed for this man to step up to the microphone!

The Introduced

NUTMEG MANNIKIN

Now who wouldn't want one of those in their Moth Trap?

MONITOR LIZARD

I'd rather have a 'full bottle in front of me'

than a 'full frontal lobotomy'!

PRAIRIE WARBLER

Glasses made from the neck-ends of wine bottle and thier holder from the other
was about as cute as it could get - WONDERFUL!

And then the man, he steps right up to the microphone
And says at last, just as the time bell rings
"Thank You, Goodnight, now it's time to go home"
Then he makes it fast with one more thing
"We are the Sultans, we are the Sultans of Swing"

Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits