Epilogue
The foliage on Saint Francis is stunning. Every color of the rainbow stands out bright and clear. It is the Picasso of the Caribbean islands.
None anywhere like it. Stranger than the beauty is the fact that many of the plants and insects on the island were thought to have been extinct millions of years ago. For decades, scientists of all strips and specialties continuously visited the island in search of its many mysteries. After all, good, old-fashioned, scholarly research on a clothing-optional, sexually liberated paradise in the Caribbean was good duty, as we used to say in the military.
What scientists did agree upon is that the island possesses special qualities heretofore undiscovered anywhere else on the planet. Some focused on the extraordinary, mineral-rich volcanic so
