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Colours are so different on the islands. The bright Caribbean sun, the reflective surfaces of sea and ocean—they intensify a certain range of the spectrum. The world is at once bleached and saturated; the contrast only adds to the effect. Dominating nature are bright pigments—indigo, cerulean, palm green, lemon yellow, chilly red, orchid magenta; creamy frangipani flowers and white storks stand out in particular, bright against the cacophony.
The sea and sky are reflected in one another, often starkly divided up by banks of white sand, earthen rock, and green foliage. Dark clouds gather and seem only darker against the clear blue green sea. Then they pass, and the water and sky once again take on a deep, mind-boggling blue.
Sunsets and sunrises are rapid at the equator, but then too the light changes, colouring the world for a short half hour with a palette of shimmering golds, warm peach, and then slowly, in the deepening purple shadows the shades of molten, incandescent metals take over, before light is gone—gunmetal grey, tarnished silver, bronzed sand.
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