Tag: Cayman Turtle Farm
Sculpture greets visitors to Turtle Farm
(CNS): Artist Joseph Betty, who also works as a tour guide and bus driver, has completed a specially commissioned sculpture that adorns the entrance to the Cayman Turtle Farm (CTF). In April this year, the CTF approached him to create a centrepiece sculpture of three turtles swimming through coral. The sculpture provides a visual focal […]
Students add colour to nature trail
(CNS): Students from John A Cumber and Prospect Primary schools have created brightly coloured signs for all the different kinds of indigenous plants that can be seen at the Blue Hole Nature Trail at the Cayman Turtle Farm (CTF). Geddes Hislop, curator of the CTF terrestrial exhibits, spearheaded the project. “The Blue Hole Nature Trail […]
Beach seaweed transformed from nuisance to fertiliser
(CNS): Cayman Turtle Farm (CTF) staff have been collecting the huge mats of brown Sargassum seaweed that have been washing up on Cayman’s shores recently to use as fertiliser. The seaweed feeds the soil with nutrients as it decomposes; reduces evaporation from the soil’s surface, thus aiding moisture retention; and helps keep weeds from growing.
Ghost orchid blooms at the Turtle Farm
(CNS): Unique to the Cayman Islands, the ghost orchid, one of the rarest flowers in the world, is currently in bloom but there are few places left where the public can see the mysterious epiphyte flowering. The Cayman Turtle Farm in West Bay has said that the orchid is blooming on its Nature Trail and […]
