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Nature and Conservation
March 19th, 2013
By now, you’ve heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Sadly, there’s also one in the Atlantic, and more emerging elsewhere. Islands cinematographer Justin Lewis is creating a documentary film on the North Atlantic Trash Gyre, and a hard cover book showcasing the sea life it impacts. That is, if his project can gain more support....
January 3rd, 2013
Finding a big, beautiful Caribbean beach: easy. Finding a big, beautiful Caribbean beach that you can have (or at least feel as if you can have) all to yourself: Well, that’s not quite as easy. Over the past few months I’ve been shooting in the Bahamas, Aruba, Bermuda and other island locales — places with no shortage of sugary strands. And I’ve noticed that while you can easily find a small cove for some solitary sun-worshipping, it’s a whole lot harder to find a place of your own along those expansive sweeps of sand that really define (for me, at least) what a Caribbean beach is all about. More often than not, I find myself at resorts where the beach, albeit magnificent, is lined with seemingly endless rows of blue-and-white-striped beach chairs and a procession of beach umbrellas stippling the sand like freckles. Call me selfish, but having to share the shore with so many ...
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September 10th, 2012
Our latest issue, "Best Cruises for 2013", is hitting newsstands as we speak, and inside original supermodel and dive aficionado Lauren Hutton gives her take on swimming with whale sharks and her preservation efforts with Shark Savers. In this week's "Destination Watch", CT+L contributor and Lauren Hutton BFF Tanya Burnett shares a surprising discovery from their day jaunting around prime whale shark watching territory, Isla Mujeres....
June 18th, 2012
We just got the alert that CheapCaribbean.com has listed some great last-minute summer vacation packages for Caribbean all-inclusive resorts. Imagine jetting off to the Dominican Republic for a five-night stay at the Viva Wyndham Dominicus Beach for only $589, and that includes air. CT+L readers consistently love staying at all-inclusive resorts, so jump on ......
October 18th, 2011
Bolongo Bay - the Caribbean's most entertaining beach resort - and Caribbean Travel + Life have partnered to offer an exclusive contest just to CT+L's Facebook fans!
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September 30th, 2011
Caribbean Travel and Life celebrates Aruba in the next installment of our Best of the Caribbean series, airing October 8th....
August 3rd, 2011
You've seen the photos and read the stories, but what's it really like to swim with whale sharks? Caribbean Travel + Life contributor Chanize Thorpe shares an exclusive video clip from her recent snorkeling encounter at the annual Whale Shark Festival in Mexico....
August 4th, 2010
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As an avid Caribbean diver and snorkeler, I've known about the lionfish invasion going on across the region's reefs for quite some time...
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May 25th, 2010
The largest confirmed whale shark measured a whopping 41 feet long and weighed in at 47,000 pounds — just for comparison’s sake, the average 38-foot-long school bus, fully loaded with around 84 teenagers, weighs around 43,000 pounds....
April 21st, 2010
Here's a link to an interesting report on treehugger.com about lionfish, the extravagantly beautiful killer that's a mortal threat to Caribbean reef fish because it has no regional predators....
