Face to Face: Mark Ozawa, Windjammer Landings Resort

The first phase of our current villa renovation programme will be complete by the end of January 2015 with the updating of 19 villas.

We have also just completed an extensive beach expansion programme which resulted in an enlargement of the beach by 16,000 square feet. This includes the installation of three in-water hammocks which are unique to the resort and cannot be found anywhere else on the island. The beach expansion project included:

4,000 tons of sand
30 towering Coconut Palm trees and 30 Foxtail Palms
1,400 new plants to include; Red Dwarf Ixoras and Yellow Almanda
Additional beach lighting
New Tiki huts replacing older versions
We also installed new sea turtle safe lights on the beach. This is to prevent the baby sea turtles from being confused by bright lights shining on a beach as they prepare to move away from the beach after hatching. Baby sea turtles normally hatch around the full moon and use the moonlight shining on the water to navigate themselves back towards the sea. The new bollard light fixtures have amber-colored bulbs as this is the colour that has the least effect on the turtles and will not interfere with this important process.

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