Wild Tobago

Shaueel Persadee writes ocean parables for our times. These inhabitants of an undersea community are under threat from the world over which they have no control. Persadee is an education officer at the Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust. He also writes a creative blog https://shaleics.wordpress.com/ Claude and Pinchino scuttled across the reef, their spiked legs gripping and pulling them across corals and through the sand. Both were carrying gifts, small tokens held carefully between their pincers, for their friend who was expecting. Shelly’s eggs were supposed to hatch today and her two best friends, who were also crabs, were now hurrying toward her home in order to give her gifts. Claude carried a shiny trinket in the shape of an “S” that had fallen into the ocean from a human invention called a car, and Pinchino carried a seaweed blanket. By the time they arrived at the home, underneath a large staghorn coral, both were blowing bubbles while regaining their br...

Shaueel Persadee imagines a discussion among inhabitants of an undersea community facing threats from the world over which they have no control. Persadee is a student of Biology and Environmental Sceince at the University of the West Indies and education officer at the Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust. He also writes a creative blog https://shaleics.wordpress.com/ One great ocean, spreading around the globe, its waters connected by a complex variety of courses and transformations. One great sun, shining down from the heavens, spreading light and heat more intense than the world could ever hope to use. Yet, beneath the rolling waves near some tropical islands, where the water is blue as the sky, and fish still swim in schools rather than in solitude, there lies a different world. This world of colourful cities and fascinating fellows not only depends on the mercy of the sun and the sea, but the mercy of those who live above the surface of the water. Normally all citizens would car...