Fun with cropping images - here's me against an invented background. (It's actually a blown-up piece of my swimsuit there!)

I am definitely a water baby - I've spent most of my life on a pool deck or in the water. I coached swimming at my home pool - the Barbados Aquatic Center. It's a fantastic outdoor facility with a 4 lane 25-m learn-to-swim pool (where I spent many a Saturday getting a sun-burn no matter how much sunscreen I put on) and an Olympic sized 25m by 50 m pool. They plan to put in a diving pool someday, but they've got to finish paying the first part off first (it was finished in the early 1990's.) It is definitely one of the best facilities in the Caribbean, albeit anywhere. The McGill Swim team went there for their annual winter training in December. My friends on the team tell me they had a great time!

I took this photo of a sunset at the North Point of Barbados, one of my favourite place in the world.

So obviously growing up in Barbados was an experience. I was born in Montreal but I moved to "Bim" (an old nickname for the country) when I was 8 years old, so my formative years were spent there. I stayed until I returned to go to school here at McGill University.

So that's me in a nutshell - enjoy the rest of the site!