![]() ![]() So except for the people of the nearest inhabited island, Antago, a little more than twenty miles to the southwest, Azul Island was little known and untouched. Neither did any air lane come within five hundred miles of it. But no ships ever passed it unless driven far off their course. Only on large-scale navigation maps of the far eastern area of the Caribbean Sea could the island be found. It was barren and foreboding, with the sea beating white against its barrier walls, seeking entrance and finding none. ![]() Its precipitous walls rose naked from the sea, rising a thousand or more feet in the sky until they rounded off to form the dome-shaped top of Azul Island. There was nothing soft or green or colorful about Azul Island. The islands of the Caribbean Sea are tropical and luxurious in their soft green vegetation and colorful flowers. One saw it not as an island but as a massive, egg-shaped boulder dropped into the sea. Azul Island broke the turquoise blue waters with a startling suddenness. ![]()
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