Tobago Love
Taking care of the land requires patience and care from people who are as patient with the seasons and wildlife as with each other. Pat Ganase discovers a love story at the Adventure Eco-Villas. You never know when you may stumble on a real adventure story. This one started at the Adventure Eco-Villas, bird and wildlife sanctuary just outside Plymouth in Tobago. Our guide was Agnes Timothy Solomon who welcomed us with a gentle Guyanese accent. Her mother was Warao, her father Aruac and Agnes was born in Mabaruma, near the Guyana-Venezuela border. She was the youngest of nine, five boys and four girls. Her mother died when she was ten and Agnes was adopted and raised by a wealthy family in Georgetown, far from the village where her family lived. We were sitting in the viewing porch looking at the birds buzzing around the feeders: hummingbirds, bananaquits, a couple barred antshrikes. As she put out ripe plantain, the Motmots came around. If you st...