Cuba’s Scenic Train Ride, New Caribbean Flights and Seabirds Return to Alaskan Island

You can’t be on every island at once – but you can feel like you are. Here are the latest links with useful information about island travel from around the world.

• All aboard! Take a journey on a relic from Cuba’s sugar-farming past, the Hershey Train.
• Want more Cuba? Check out the article, “Cuba Now,” from our recent issue.
• New low-cost flights to the Caribbean could be on the way. Orlando-based AirTran has submitted applications with the Department of Transportation to begin flying to Nassau and Montego Bay by 2010.
• Hear that chirping? It could be a peregrine falcon if you’re on Alaska’s Rat Island. The birds are back thanks to a seabird restoration project undertaken by The Nature Conservancy.