http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Central America Caribbean , Trinidad and Tobago , Tobago en-us Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:59:32 BST Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:59:32 BST 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. http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-301407.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-217927.html I lost the original text for this entry. I am sad about thisWayne and I spent a day diving in Tobago. We saw lots of lovely things.We went for 'local food' for our lunch. I had crab and dumplings. The dumplings were pasty white slime things the crab was almost whole and uncracked covered in a scanky brown sauce. When I asked how to get to the meat the answer was with my teeth. CRACK the http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-174159.html We woke up and had our last breakfast. It really really rained a LOT Virgin does check in chill out so the rep the Virgin Atlantic people and the airport security turned up at the hotel. It was fairly straight forward and quick. It meant we got rid of our bags nice and early so didnrsquot have to worry about them all day. We then had our final swim in the sea and showered before checking ou http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-173782.html Turtle Nesting Our last full day we had booked an organised tour to Speyside having been twice we were looking forward to the commentary etc. The bus picked us up and we drove up the coast. It lashed it down with rain the roads looked like rivers we were glad it was someone else driving. The guide was brilliant and told us lots of interesting things about the island. Our first stop for a dri http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-173780.html I snuck in a bag and went to Tobago with my friends Stella and Wayne.It was great the beach reminded me of home.I had some more drinks met some locals and enjoyed myself http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-171883.html An early breakfast was required as we had an early pick up from the dive centre. The boss arrived in his pickup truck and headed to the centre the driver chatted away. He asked Wayne if he liked driving and if he could drive. The next thing we knew he had pulled over and given Wayne the keys telling us to take ourselves to the centre as he lived just here and it would save him the need for a t http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-171752.html We woke breakfasted etc as usual. We had the day to ourselves and decided to go out again in the car on a little explore. We headed around the coast to Crown Point and went on a magical mystery tour. Our aim To find Robinson Crusoes Cave I read the Penguin version before leaving home. The cave was marked very approximately on a map I had from my mum last used in the 1990rsquos. We dro http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-171502.html Our car arrived in the morning a good looking Nissan saloon with fantastic air conditioning and absolutely NO petrol Mission 1 to find one of the 8 petrol stations on the island and fill up. This was fairly easy as 6 of all 8 petrol stations were within easy reach of the resort. We then looked at the map possibly the most useless map ever and decided to do a round trip of the island. Toba http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-171430.html After a fairly early night and a good sleep we headed to breakfast. It was fab lots of fruit cooked brekkie yoghurt etc mmmmmm. After breakfast we had our briefing from the Virgin rep. We had received a lsquofree experiencersquo and so booked ourselves on a tour for our last full day called the Speyside Safari saving about 70 each. On our way back to the room we booked a hire car wi http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-171428.html We woke up early 3.30am and this time it wasnt to take a lorry to London we were off on HOLIDAY We arrived at the airport after a fairly pain free journey one of the first to check in. We had posh tickets Premium Economy which meant big seats a must for Wayne and very nice for me. As we were the first to check in we managed to get the Exit seats so had heaps of legroom.We had a love http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-170262.html Just a quick note to say that My TRAVEL blog will be leaving the UKWayne and I are off to Tobago tomorrow morning for the week. YIPPEEWe return on Friday the 15th. Hopefully the UK can cope without us for a week whilst we enjoy the sun sand and of course no doubt some scubaWill let you know how we get on http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-166255.html We went to Charlotteville this morning and went into the town for the last time. Next we went to Flag Staff Hill one of the highest points of Tobago where you could see the Carribean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean meet. It was beautifully clear. Then we came home for lunch and finally we set off from the house for the last time to go down to the south of the island to the Airport. On the way to http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-157660.html We drove to Roxborough then drove back down to Scarborough where we got tonight's meal. We drove back to Bloody Bay via Hillsborough Dam. We got onto this very rocky and bumpy unmade road and drove quite a distance and we found the dam but no water Mum thought saw a crocodile but I didn't see it We drove round in a massive circle and ended up back at Bloody Bay for lunch. We went for our las http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-157656.html Spent the whole day at Heavenly bay Castara beach today. It was really good fun. We played in the sea and snorkelled twice and we saw a ray When we got home I looked it up in the tropical fish book and found out that it was a Southern Stingray We could have got stung There is a forest fire crackling away just down the road from where we are and I can smell the disgusting smoke http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-157650.html We got up quite early and went out on the glass bottom boat We went all the way to Little Tobago a much much smaller island which is also a bird sanctuary. When we got there we snorkelled off the beach and saw some quite nice fish and brain corals. We saw a massive brain coral too the biggest in the Western hemisphere. It was over 2000 years old. Next we went to the Angel Reef on the boat. W http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-157649.html I would say this has been the most funniest part of my trip and it was only the start maybe because i so far away from home or the parties here was wild I have never met soo many people in a period of one week in my entire life. The people here are soo friendly and open about everything it just feels like having a second family. The lifestyle i must say is soo layed back that it feels like a http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-154558.html Hi right I'm back from exhausting internet school and lots of weird days....lol. Anyway the day after my last post I went to the waterfall....I'll upload a couple of pics for you guys it was amazing I stood there and I felt like in titanic i was ontop of the waterfall and it was as if I was flying if I had a bunji rope hell I would have jumped down without second thought. Why well 'c http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-153854.html We were originally planning to go on a glass bottom boat to the angel reef but the car had a flat tyre So instead we decided too go and explore Parlatuvier the next village from Bloody Bay. We went down to beach where some more fishermen were fishing. Parlatuvier is quite a fishing community because there is a jetty and lots of small fishing boats at the end. We then went to a little store t http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-150345.html We got up quite early and went too the Argyle waterfall. It was very nice. We got there and there were three pools. We started in the lower pool which was very shallow then got REALLY deep. It was very refreshing to swim over the 20ft deep pool to reach the waterfall itself and take a revitalising shower. Next we moved to the middle pool and had another swim. It was much smaller and shallower but http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-150342.html Well you can be glad to read the first sentence....this entry won't be as long as yesterday's. Bet you all are wiping your foreheads in relief ey hehe yea sorry introductions are long and I always get carried away. Anyway to the entry today well nothing special happened I simply got up at 9am maybe 902 or something made beakfast and ate with my dad all alone since my sis' is in s http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-150085.html This morning we went to Bloody Bay beach. The river runs into the sea there when the tide comes a bit further in and I spotted an abandoned bamboo raft. We were only there for about 15 minutes and walked up the beach then split to drive down the Caribbean coast. We stopped at a Roti shop and I had a vegetable Roti which was lush and we sat on Stone Haven beach underneath a poisonous Manchine http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-150040.html Today we went into the rainforest We got up at about 6am and went very early to meet Fitzroy our guide. We trekked through the rainforest on the Gilpin Trail which took us to many beautiful waterfalls. We also saw some amazing animals. There was a bit of a Steve Irwin moment when Fitzroy leapt onto a clump and grabbed this little snake It was so small and it wasn't poisonous in fact it was http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-150039.html Today started terribly because the water system throughout Bloody Bay was broken We couldn't shower and we had to use pool water to wash and use the loo We had a swim anyway and practised our underwater somersaults and entering the sea from a boat when snorkelling technique It got much better though because we went back to Castara beach for the whole day We swam in the sea then had a litt http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-150035.html Institut Auf Dem RosenbergLisa Hirschmann My name is Lisa and this is my very first entry in this blog which I decided to create because well first off I love writing secondly....I travel ALOT...and thridly I kinda get depressed when I think about myself 10 years from now with absolutely no memory of the past why you might ask 'cause it's just sad. So this entry I will just tell you a http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-149783.html We had quite a long dip in the pool this morning. We went back to Charlotteville on the new road and got some postcards and tiny packets of peanuts We then drove into Speyside on the Atlantic side of the island and stopped in a fruit juice bar. The man had grown all his own fruits Pineapple Papaya Banana Mango and instead of making it into juice with water he put in the juice of his own http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-149149.html We had another dip in the pool at a ridiculously early time and then we set off into Scarborough about an hour away from Bloody Bay to search for some new fins for Emily We went into several shops but none had the right size and if they were the right size they were too expensive So we drove down a little further to Pigeon Point where we looked in some dive shops and eventually found so http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-149148.html After another early morning dip we drove through the rainforest up to the far north east of the island. I kept seeing signs on the Atlantic side which warned of the Portuguese Man O'War Jellyfish. But I wasn't worried about these. I was more concerned about the Barracudas As soon as we got too Charlotteville we went in search of a recommended cappuccino caf. We found it and I had a delicious w http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-149144.html Woke up at about 5.30am had breakfast and was in the pool by 7am It was still quite warm. Next we went into Scarborough to go to the supermarket. This was quite boring. Then we came home and had lunch and spent most of the afternoon in the pool. I fell asleep on the sofa and later awoke to find my barbecued sausages for tea. http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-149141.html I woke up really early about 5.30am because we were still English time and these god dam national birds I was well tired We waited till about 6am when I saw a frightening sight. That Gecko had escaped into our room It ran across the ceiling and I was really freaked out. I ran upstairs and sat in the living room for a bit until we used our rations to have breakfast. The view was spectacular http://www.travelblog.org//Central-America-Caribbean/Trinidad-and-Tobago/Tobago/blog-149134.html