The Joulter
Cays are a critical wintering location for Atlantic plovers, red knots, and other declining shorebirds.
One fortunate happening just prior to shutting down Walkers
Cay by the owner was that the runway on Walkers got repaved, so planes can still land there.
A Vietnamese frigate is always in the vicinity and visible from the Philippine-claimed Northeast
Cay.
Animals collected from Twin
Cays, Belize, during the summer of 2003 were first cultured at the marine station in Carrie Bow
Cay for 3 weeks, then transported as above to Yale.
Although Protestant and Green
Cays are considered critical habitat for this species, both islands are located relatively close to each other in the north coast of Saint Croix, making them vulnerable to the same natural disturbances such as hurricanes.
There is a simmering feeling of sexiness that comes naturally in these islands," Madonna's brother Christopher Ciccone (a Caribe
Cay devotee) says.
The diurnally active ant species inhabiting these
cays were surveyed each May from 1989 to 1994.
In 1994, Chub
Cay Island opened a fully automated, licensed power company, Chub
Cay Power & Light, which is designed to provide all of the island's electrical power requirements well into the next century.
We measured water salinity and temperature on windward and leeward sides of Peter Douglas, Spruce, and Wee Wee
Cays, and at one protected and one exposed site within Twin
Cays [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED].
Dozens of tiny, mangrove-rimmed islands called
cays, and patches of coral reef make their homeland an exceptionally productive fishing ground.
When those first ships hove over the horizon, San Salvador, a small
cay (pronounced key), was lush with groves of mahogany, lignum vitae, and redcedar.
South of Eleuthera and across the Exuma Sound, is another 130-mile chain of islands and 365
cays called The Exumas.