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Patrick Bennett

With 15+ years of experience producing winning creative at top New York-based ad agencies, Patrick has earned a reputation for reinventing consumer brands. This, of course, fits hand in glove with Uncommon Caribbean's mission to refresh how people think about Caribbean travel. It's an ambitious task, but this born and bred Crucian has already managed similar feats for the likes of Samsung, Kraft, Six Flags, Verizon, and others; so we're feeling pretty good about having him in charge. Did we mention he's also got a passion for photography? Patrick may call Brooklyn home, but you're just as likely to find him traipsing across some distant, exotic land experiencing local cultures... Camera in hand.

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Patrick
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Caribbean Wallpaper Wednesday: My Secret Recipe For Getting More Out of Caribbean Travel, “Sunsetting”

Sunset on Tulum Beach, Mexico Wallpaper by Patrick Bennett

It was 2009 and we’d had a perfect day on Tulum Beach in the famed Riviera Maya region of Mexico… So, I was pretty sure we wouldn’t be coming back again any time soon.

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Patrick

Top of the Caribbean: Climbing Pico Duarte, The Tallest Mountain in the West Indies – Part 1

Welcome SIgnage, Pico Duarte, Dominican Republic by Patrick Bennett

Try to imagine yourself in my shoes: There I was, in the middle of nowhere, deep in a Caribbean wilderness, pitch-black night was closing in all around me. I had no headlamp, no food, the batteries in my flashlight were dead, I’d left all my belongings in the care of a random old stranger hours ago with only a vague promise that I’d ever see them again, strange animal sounds alluded to massive wild boars lurking nearby, the temperature was dropping rapidly and, to top it all off, the only man for miles around had just pulled a long, rusty machete from an all-too-convenient, hidey-hole in a tree… and was now smiling at me as he squatted over a stone sharpening his rusty blade.

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How To Make Your Dream Caribbean Travel Experience a Reality in Just 2 Simple Steps… Or Why to Download This Wallpaper

Approach, Tobago Cays, The Grenadines by Patrick Bennett

A few years ago, a former colleague of mine gave me the best compliment I’ve ever received… And probably ever will receive. This one bit of polite praise opened my eyes in ways that’ve changed my life forever… And allowed me to create a 2-step process to accomplishing anything. A secret process I’d like to share with you.

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Patrick

Effortlessly Curate Your Own Uncommon Caribbean Travel Experience With Pinterest

Uncommon Caribbean on Pinterest

Pinterest may be a young entry into the social networking landscape, but in recent months this fledgling service that lets you “organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web” has literally exploded with interest and activity. By one report, released a couple days ago, Pinterest is the third most popular social network in the United States, behind only Facebook and Twitter!

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Caribbean Wallpaper Wednesday: 6 Caribbean Beaches to See Before You Die?

Sunset on Flamenco Beach Culebra by Patrick Bennett

The other day I ran across this old article on the New York Times entitled 6 Caribbean Beaches to See Before You Die by Jeremy W. Peters. In this “brief guide,” Jeremy opens with a statement near and dear to our hearts here at Uncommon Caribbean: “the Caribbean Sea — with islands that are flat, mountainous, tiny and vast — is specked with beaches that defy tropical conventions.”

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Patrick

Saturday Video: Get Blown Away by The Epic Side of Trinidad

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While Steve has been a lot recently, it’s been a few years since I’ve visited Trinidad. On that trip, I only spent one night in Port-of-Spain before setting off in search of our long lost grandmother Steve had recently reconnected with. She was living down south in Point Fortin, so the drive was a great opportunity to get away from the crush of the big city and experience another side of The Land of the Humming Bird… One the video above has me desperate to see more of!

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Friday Happy Hour: Effortlessly Impress With an Exotic Corn n’ Oil Cocktail

Corn N' Oil by Patrick Bennett

Corn n’ Oil may not have the most pleasant moniker, but what it lacks in title, it more than makes up for in seductively sweet flavor. Plus with only two ingredients, this cocktail can instantly add some exotic Bajan goodness to any occasion.

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