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So You Want To Live On An Island... by Gay Morse
So You Want To Live On An Island... by Gay Morse
Have you ever wanted to work as a dive professional on a remote island? So You Want To Live On An Island... will either confirm your desire or put you right off.
Gay Morse is a Texan who has lived and worked at the Pirates Point resort in Little Cayman in the Caribbean for many years, and she is a big-time advocate of getting away from it all. She has collected humorous anecdotes from other islanders, staff and guests, bundled them into themed chapters, added in a history of the island and launched the result onto the market.
The book is relentless in its pursuit of fun - in line with the resort's market, it is very American-folksy, peppered with exclamation marks and 'how we howled with laughter'-type conclusions to each story. That alone may be enough to put you off wanting to pursue a career change of this sort, but to be fair the book also contains its share of warnings that such a life is not for everybody.
If Gay's warm-hearted and well-produced book comes over as an extended plug for Pirate's Point rather than a work of universal applicability, it's probably as good a promotional device as any one dive centre has devised. It's certainly worth a read if you're diving the Caymans.
What's more, I must admit that it did make me want to visit the resort - as much to try out the excitingly described cooking as for the diving.
Steve Weinman
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So You Want To Live On An Island... by Gay Morse (www.islandslife.com, ISBN 0974955604). Softback, 220pp, $14.95
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