The Fine Line Between Love and Haiti - Part IV

 Among the deprivation and lack of basic needs there did seem to be that upbeat feel about everyone I met across Haiti and felt to have seen the best of it, but there was one final surprise to that last day (Sunday).  Along with all of Ernso and Gina's family, Brandon and a whole bunch of other friends we all mustered at

with eyes seeming a little blurred even before finding our places, but even better a 'massive goody' before getting through the main gate

NORTHERN POTO
a nocturnal species not dissimilar to our own Nightjar only larger.

The most fantastic thing about the whole Restaurant

cum Nightclub with limited accommodation and

CAVE SWALLOWs
nesting under the eves and which can be found breeding under most road and rail bridges througout much of the America's, is that 90% of the construction materials were recycled even down to the

 NiftyWine Glasses

confiding and opportunist
PALM WARBLER

before taking a

peek

inside and out again to find the ubiquitous

RUFOUS-COLLARED SPARROWs

while it would be readily agreed by 'both parties' that Brandon and I hit it off from the very start.
I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me,
than a full frontal lobotomy!

ZENAIDA DOVE

Unfortunately as the Wine went in the Wit went out

HISPANIOLAN EMERALD
(endemic)
and

BANANAQUIT
widespread and numerous.

The first members of the Band to show up with the wine having left the others out!

VILLAGE WEAVER
introduced from Southern Africa

and again another great favourite, oh for one in the UK

BLACK and WHITE WARBLER

Wuthering Heights

WORM-EATING WARBLER

Brandon with All his Mates!
and as a final farewell to Port-au-Prince and Haiti at large

YELLOW-FACED GRASSQUIT

THE END