Tortola Photos - Flora & Fauna

Pat really likes chickens, and luckily the resort had some resident that either we befriended, or who befriended us, depending on how you look at it. Actually, we started feeding them crackers and then they started demanding crackers, with a rooster crowing at the crack of dawn (as they do) outside of our door, and a hen and chicks pounding at the door if we didn't come out quickly enough for their liking. Chickens run free all over the island - we even heard and saw one hen lay 2 eggs on top of a fridge at an outdoor beach bar, where the owner has put out a cardboard box for her convenience since she does it every day : ) Here are the hen and chicks who hung out at the resort.

There were a lot of pelicans there too.

And these brown birds, which i never did identify.

On one cloudy, rainy day, we drove around the insane island roads. On the way up Sage Mountain, where it was particularly wet, windy and foggy, we saw this burro tied up to a tree on the side of the road. He had no food or water, there was nobody around for miles and we thought that terribly unfair. We had been going to talk with the people at the Sage Mountain Visitor Center about it, but nobody was there either, so on the way back down Pat decided to give the burro his freedom. This is Pat the Burro Liberator.

Tortola has some nice stands of mangroves, which provide a unique environment for both land and sea life.

Their roots are so cool.

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