Guana Island Tour And Travel | Travel Information

Name        : Guana Island
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Guana Island is an island of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) in the Caribbean. One of the few remaining privately-owned islands in its part of the world, Guana has seven white powder-sand beaches and 850 acres (3.4 km2) of tropical forest, mountains, hills, and valleys. The island is mostly natural preserve and has a small resort.

In the 18th century, two Quaker families came to Guana as part of what was called "the Quaker Experiment" which lasted for about forty-five years in the BVI. They used African slaves and cultivated sugar cane. When they were recalled to the United States and England, they left behind two cannons still on Guana today. Archaeologists have extensively studied the Quaker ruins and have also unearthed older artifacts that give insight into Guana's earlier Amerindian history.

Beth and Louis Bigelow of Massachusetts purchased Guana in 1934. With the help of local men they built six stone cottages and developed a reputation as creative pioneers. Their guests - professionals, intellectuals and world travelers - came for months at a time, attracted to the simple but rich life.

Its rocky coasts and cliffs provide nests for seabirds such as tropic birds, brown boobys, and a breeding colony of brown pelicans. Ashore, Guana Island has a salt pond where shorebirds, waders and ducks may be seen as well as restored roseate flamingos.

Its small mountain peaks "husband" the available moisture from the trade winds into the interior woodlands, resulting in a rich and diverse flora and fauna, including hundreds of species of insects and plants, such as orchids. Fourteen species of reptiles and amphibians find habitat here--most notably the restored Anegada rock iguana as well as the red-legged tortoise (which can be seen at Road Town's  J.R.O'Neal Botanical Gardens). A network of about 20 trails are available for exploration.

A birdwatcher's paradise, Guana Island has at least 50 species of birds which may be regularly seen, and is home to a number of endangered or threatened species, such as the bridled quail dove, the roseate tern and a fascinating, but elusive small raptor, the Newton’s barefoot screech owl, once believed extinct.

Sitting on the veranda, many house and garden birds can be seen. Brilliant-colored bananaquits visit for fruit in any form. Thrashers might take a hike in your butter. Two hummingbirds, the green throated carib and the tiny crested doctorbird, dazzle with the spectrum scattered light of their unique feather structure, hovering to extract the nectar of the abundant flowering plants such as hibiscus and frangipani.

this place is very beautiful and very wonderfull. if anyone here would not have been able to forget. do not deny that many domestic and foreign tourists are very impressed after visiting this place. and they want to return to this place for their holidays.

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