“Step off the boat into the blue surf and wade to shore under the watchful eyes and noisy calls of a pair of scarlet macaws feeding in an almond tree. It’s raining, it’s hot, you’re dirty, and you feel more alive then you’ve ever felt before. You have arrived in the rainforest!” Summertime always awakened the impression of the Tropical Island/Rainforest & Pacific Oceania in me, the feeling I captured while reading Jules Verne’s “Two Years’ Vacation” in childhood.