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

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. Tobago is a very small island (42km long 10km wide) however none of the roads were straight, and no of them ran very level - the island has lots and lots of steep hills (the highest point is 550m). This meant that our journey around the island took us 5 hours. We stopped at lots of beautiful view points, and ... read more

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 lovely cooked b'fast and did some last minute shopping before boarding for the 8 hour flight. 3 films later, lots of drinks and food and we had arrived. The plane landed and we looked out the window to see a turrential downpoar - great! Lets hope it wasnt a sign of the week ... read more

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 the airport, we stopped at a Fort, where we saw some beautiful scenery. By the time we left Tobago, it was dark. The same way we arrived. We never got to see it from the air, but Tobago is a beautiful island, and I would definitely go back. ... read more

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! ... read more

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 the waterfall was much higher up. I had another tropical shower in this waterfall. We didn't bother to go to the top pool. We came back down and went back to the car park. On the way, our guide had told us about the cocoa beans and this leaf that when you rip the bark of the stem off, ... read more