Our relation with nature develops from a nearly age. The built environment, the food we eat and the pictures we see nurture and influence our ways of inhabiting the landscape and how that landscape inhabits our imagination and our conception of place. How we experience nature during the course of our lives inevitably shapes our understanding of it.

In the Caribbean, the overall colonial history reveals patterns of settlement around the waterfront which function as physical formulations for social segregation and reclusiveness, disregarding public access and mixing. Whether for military purposes, oras a result of an economy heavily based on tourism the urban conditions showcase a deliberate and consistent public inaccessibility to the waterfront consequence of a politically imposed order.