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We're back now from our almost annual trip to Guana Island in the British Virgin Islands. Guana Island is a 850 acre private island resort that has at most 30 guests as well as quite a few Rock Iguanas (almost extinct) and Bermuda Flamingos (also almost extinct) and lots of other wild life. It has a pretty good reef for snorkeling off the main beach as well as several others. (The reef picture is Tortola from the plane - we didn't fly over our island).

The island looks a bit like a bird - perhaps a wild turkey. The houses are up on the hill on the ridge (at the base of the neck), the main beach is of the flat spot which contains some fields, a salt pond where the flamingos and other birds live, and an orchard/garden. The other beaches are reachable by boat or hiking.

There are supposed to be 6 resident flamingos, but apparently 2 of them fly away and only occasionally visit. The only time we saw all 6 was on the first afternoon - there were only 4 earlier that day and for the rest of our visit. The pond is too small to be a breeding spot and when it is too salty or not salty enough, they have to be fed flamingo food because the stuff they normally eat doesn't survive.