Pupils from High School Fulgencio Tavares in Cape Verde live on a group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the west African coast.

Charles Darwin landed on Cape Verde within the first few weeks of his famous voyage on the Beagle.  

He was a young man.  This was his first experience of the tropics.  He was amazed by the bright colours.

"It is like giving a blind man sight," he wrote in his notebooks.  "The colours of the sponges and the coralines are extremely vivid and it is curious how animated nature becomes more gaudy as it apporaches the hotter countries. Birds, fishes, plants, shells and familiar to everyone, but the colours in these marine animals will rival in brilliancy those of the higher classes."

Pupils from High School Fulgencio Tavares in Cape Verde looked at their world through Darwin's eyes. 

Darwin was intrigued by the geology of Cape Verde.  He was able to build up a picture of how the land had formed and started to realise that nature was in a state of constant change.

How did they do that?

The pupils of High School Fulgencio Tavares, São Domingo county in Cape Verde worked with their teacher Professor Octavio Garcia. 
  
They made a field visit at the weekend and went into the country.  They four digital cameras and divided the class into four groups of seven pupils.  They photographed anything they found interesting.

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