Eye on the Caribbean
- Grade Level: Senior High (10-12)-Adult
- Subjects: Global, Travel
- Produced By: Radio Netherlands Television
- Year: 2004
- Language: English
- Running Time: 52m
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This program is a unique exploration of some of the remotest places on earth combined with stunning photography of both wildlife and local culture, celebrating the huge natural diversity of this planet by looking through the lens of wildlife photographer Dos Winkel. Join Dos as he visits the Bonaire Treasure Island, situated just 20 miles off the coast of Venezuela, Bonaire is the least developed and least populated of the five islands of the Netherlands Antilles. Then onward to Saba. Verdant green with lush vegetation, Saba is an extinct volcano that seems to shoot out of the sea. Only five miles square at the base its peak rises to over 2,800 feet. First discovered by Columbus on his second voyage in 1493, the island constantly changed hands between the European powers for centuries until 1816, when it fell definitely in the hands of the Dutch.