We caught 5 tuna, a Dorado and a swordfish on our trip to Tobago. We saw a 400 pound Leatherback Turtle lay her eggs on the beach. The turtle crawled up on the beach, dug a hole in the sand, layed her eggs, disguised the egg location and then swam out to sea. [View Full Entry]

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Well hello! I hope you are all well and here is the first update on my latest adventures. Will try to keep them less than dissertation length for this trip although not making any promises. The airport sagas I usually suffer from seem to be a thing of the past and they have become quite lucky for me of late. This all started with not being charged for having luggage 8kg over the allowed amount by a particularly kind check-in desk lady. The flight itself was pretty boring, saved from being coma-inducingly boring only by the three lovely Caribbean ladies sitting [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone, Well I booked my flight and applied for my passport for my first big trip/first flight ever! I am headed down to trinidad & tobago for about a week come june and I could not be more excited!!! I am visiting a friend I have not seen in about a year now and I am so pumped about it. I can't wait to see the different site, eat the different food, and see everything from way up high! If you have been there before let me know what its like and I will def keep you guys updated! phil [View Full Entry]

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Uh, drug street? Not interested, thanks. So that's how my afternoon went. But let me give a brief rehash (oops, pun) of the week. My man Rohan has kept me well stocked with good food - goat roti and food from the Breakfast Shed, including callaloo, um, don't know what the rest of the plate was, but it was good. I think it included macaroni salad, pasta salad, salad greens, provision (cousin of cassava), big boney hunks of meat, plantain, rice, the list keeps going on... So in return, I took him out to dinner at Sweet Lime. Refer to previous [View Full Entry]

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Ofcourse what I love so much about travelling is the new things. The history of T&T is really quite different to Australia, although both places were colonised by the British at one point. However the British took control of T&T from Spain, and brought over many Africans as slaves, unlike Australia which was founded on the labour of British convicts. Also the climate of the two places differs greatly, which also accounts for differences. For example Australia's greatest produce in the early years of colonisation was wool and wheat, now its minerals (at least in WA). Here it was sugar and [View Full Entry]

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Soooo, its 2008 and i celebrated the New Year in a little place called Tobago. Actually to tell the truth the last few days are kinda one long blur- moslty due to spending so much time in planes and airports, and not having time to get over jet lag or being able to sleep comfortabely ( i slept on the ground or on chairs in the Trinidad airport- I had to wait 7hrs till my plane trip to Tobago). In Tobago I was with Tess and her boyfriend Josh in a massive house that was rented out, with 12 people altogether. [View Full Entry]

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December 1st - December 8th [View Full Entry]

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Well, actually I'm lying, I'm not in Tobago anymore, but I haven't really been able to find an internet cafe, so this is just a summary of the past few days. Tobago was beautiful, but not as pretty as Grenada. There I said it. It was a lot of fun though. The group of us took the ferry, which I had a great time on, drinking... like always. Most people spent the entire 3 hours puking in the sinks and sometimes if they made it, the toilets. It made me laugh, because I wasn't sick and I'm a jerk like that. [View Full Entry]

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I made it to Port of Spain alive. It is ridiculously hot here. I'm the only one who is sweating like crazy. Quite embarasing actually, because I never sweat. I've been wandering around and exploring. Woodbrook, the area that I'm staying in is pretty nice. I have a park in front of the house and restaurants and bars all around. I've been told I shouldn't be walking around by myself downtown, but being stubborn, I went anyways. They friends say that there's been a lot of recent killings and kidnappings in the city. I hopped in a taxi. A note about [View Full Entry]

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The History Of Thailand Thailand is the only country in Southeast Asia to be able to claim that they have never been a European colony or have been divided by a serious civil war. But the beginning of Thailand is still debated. The traditional story of how Thailand came to be is that the first people fled to Thailand from China to escape Kublai Khan's attacks from Mongolia. Other theories include that the Thais originated in Thailand a millenium or two ago and the Thai's found in China today migrated there about 1,000 years ago. Either way, it can be proven [View Full Entry]

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