Monday, November 5, 2007

The Race - ILES Guadeloupe IGWA Adventure

The IGWA/ILLES GUADELOUPE ADVENTURE is an Adventure and Discovery event of the Guadeloupean Teritory. During a week, 30 international teams (hand selected by the race promoters) will roam about through running, swimming, paddling, discovering or seeking. The race will alternate between adventure-sport events deep inside the landscape and discovery events across towns and villages, experiencing both to feel scents and flavors and to go to meet the inhabitants and learn of their culture while discovering the envirnment and ecology of these amazing islands.

Visit http://www.igwa.net/ for more information on the race, including photos and samples of what we'll be experiencing while in the French Caribbean.





Adventure Stages:
  • Sailing
  • Mountaineering
  • Night sections
  • Funboarding
  • Snorkeling
  • Rope skills
  • Surfing
  • Canyoning
  • Sea Kayaking or Canoeing
  • Horse Riding
  • Sky diving
  • Kite boarding
  • Golfing


Discovery:
  • Inheritance orienteering trail
  • Identity rally
  • Flavor hunt
  • Spirit event
  • Underwater ecology
  • Bird identification

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Libby & Chris said...

BIRD LIST
Northern Gannet, Herring Gull, Laughing Gull, Magnificent Frigatebird, Brown Pelican, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Little Blue Heron, Cattle Egret, Great Egret (there are several others, but these are the most likely you would see), Sanderling, Willet, Ruddy Turnstone.

The additional species and some of which you have actually seen previously in MN or CO - Turkey Vulture, Royal Tern (though tern may be a good enough answer - I think this is the most likely one), Black Skimmer, Rock Dove (or Common Pigeon), Turtle Dove, Ringed Kingfisher, Guadeloupe Woodpecker (very black and may be the only species on the island), Starling, Tropical Mockingbird, Carib Grackle,House Sparrow

FISH LIST
Here's my list from memory for common Caribbean reef fishes: grunts, butterfly fishes, soldier fishes, squirrel fishes, parrotfish, angelfish, tangs, surgeon and doctor fishes, cleaner
wrasses, blueheaded wrasses, sergeant majors, yellow tail snapper, damselfishes, chromis, basslets, goatfishes.


http://www.reef.org/resources/galleries/caribbean

November 6, 2007 at 10:16 AM

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