The Eyes have it

Thomas, our young French guide, holds a giant owl butterfly one of over thirty different varieties at the Butterfly Farm on St Martin. (To-days island in the sun)

The farm was established nearly twenty years ago by an enterprising young British couple happened to be travelling through the Caribbean and fell in love with the island.

So they decided to stay. Despite a succession of hurricanes in their early years, which nearly wiped out their business they fought back and today the Butterfly farm is a major tourist attraction on the island.

While there I got chatting to Pamela an Australian who also works on the farm.

It turned out her full name is Pamela Gwenllian Jenkins and her parents had emigrated to Australia from Merthyr Tydfil.

“I wanted to see what it was like in Wales to see where my parents came from. It was not as bad as I had expected.”

Today Pamela lives on St Martin, she is married to a local and they have two children.

But she would dearly love to find out about her Welsh heritage.
Her father was called David Lewis and her mother Gwenllian Jenkins.