Blogs from Trinidad & Tobago, Central America Caribbean - page 4

Trinidad & Tobago are the home Islands of Brian Lara and Dwight Yorke respectively. Two world famous sportsmen are proud to call these Caribbean Islands home, so if it's good enough for them it's certainly good enough for me! T&T is actually a big hitter in the Caribbean thanks to their extensive oil and gas reserves, and a lot of the banking and finance throughout the West Indies now emanates out of the capital Port of Spain. Trinidad plays host to the Carnivale in February each year, where revellers flock from all around to enjoy the boisterous street dancing, calypso and steel drums. However, aside from this once a year event the Islands are not that well known as tourist destinations. As such I was curious to begin my travels on the fifth and final destination ... read more

We arrived the day of "Carnival" What an sensory overload after 13 days at sea - but what an experience!! Music pumping out so loud that you could feel it in your bones, costumes that were out of this world - dancing, moving and gyrating to the music as they all paraded down the street. Only stayed at Scarborough for one day before moving around to the other side of the island to Store Bay!! Loved Tobago, very relaxed, calm and enjoyable. Fantastic beaches, freezing waterfalls, rainforest up the top of the island, we hired a car and circumnavigated it in a day.... read more

We are now in Trinidad for the hurricane season, having cruised the coast of Brazil, the Amazon River, French Guyana and Grenada.... read more

We met a guy who knew a guy… In Castara’s Coffee Shop I asked a guy about taking us out in a boat. His name was Hilly. He arranged for a guy named Jed to take us out in his boat. Small boat, rough seas and an exciting trip along the rocky coast to picturesque Englishman’s Bay. On the way Marika and Will fished, but no bites. We put on our masks, snorkels and flippers and flipped out of the boat into the Caribbean Sea. Below us was an amazing coral reef. We saw more colourful and different sized fish than we could count. Endless groves of fan coral, dotted with brain and branch coral. Needlefish, banded butterfly fish, queen triggerfish, blue tang, blue chromis, sergeant major, scrawled cowfish, blue hamlet, harlequin bass, fairy basslet, indigo ... read more

Tobago sports the oldest protected rainforest in the western hemisphere dating way back to the mid-1700s when the forest was protected as the watershed for plantations. Almost all Tobago’s fresh water comes from this rainforest. Newton George was the lead in protecting the rainforest for decades. Now he is known, not only in Trinidad and Tobago, but internationally as the islands’ pre-eminent nature guide. He picked us up early this morning and drove us to the rainforest where he led us on hikes for hours. He caught and showed us a beautiful black and red coral snake. I always thought all coral snakes were venomous, but not this species. "The colours were cool and it was cool that it wasn't a bird after seeing so many birds", said Marika. Imagine carrying something as long as a ... read more