In May, 2016, Nancy’s Brother Dean invited us to visit him in Trinidad. He works as an Independent IT Consultant and had a job working in Trinidad for several months. He knows we like to travel so he invited us down. We have never been to Trinidad so, and thought it would be nice to visit Dean, so we accepted.
Dean had been working there for several months so he was well attuned to the rhythm of Trinidad. He had reserved rooms for us at the Hyatt along the sea so we were all set. We arrived on Friday evening from Miami and were ready to spend an interesting weekend in Trinidad. Dean had a full weekend planned for us. We spent Friday evening at our hotel catching up with Dean, his family, his job, our family, our activities, lotsa drinks, good evening … No Jet Lag. Later we went Liming but only for a short while.
So Saturday Dean had a full day tour of Trinidad booked. He had a friend who ran a tour service who took us all over the Island. I’m not going to give you a history or geography lesson on Trinidad … if you are interested just Google “Trinidad” and you will be enlightened. The first place we went is to the Northern Shore. Exposed to the sea and all it provides, the Northern shore was very impressive. Rugged, scenic, beautiful. All At one time. Here are some pictures of the trip there through the capitol, Port of Spain, and the Northern Shore.
Nancy Along The Sea Wall By Our Hotel (In The Background0 
Our Hotel 
My Boat (I wish!) 
Our Hotel Patio By The Sea 
My Date For The Weekend (She likes Lattes!) 
A Local Museum 
There Were A Number of Colonial “Mansions” in Town. We Drove By A Number of them Going Out Of Town 
You Can See That The British Lived Well Here 
A View From Above The “Port of Spain” 
Terraced Farms 
Down Town 
Ok .. So We drove Past A Bunch of mansions, small homes where everyone else lives, and here is a Cricket Field. 
Here We Are Getting Down To The Way The real People Live … Great Food, great Drinks, and Friendly Companionship 
The North Shore 
Dean & Nancy 
Light House On The North Shore … Interesting History 
All About The Lighthouse 
The Sea .. At It’s Best
We continued our tour of the north shore … saw some incredible cloud formations and made it back to town. That night, late, we went out to a turtle sanctuary where some naturalists were taking care of leatherback turtles that were coming ashore to lay eggs. I’ll show you the pictures then tell you a little about it.
The Sun Was Setting .. A Beautiful Scene 
Dean (Left) and Nancy (Right) Walking The Shore 
This Is How My Skin Feels!! Actually Rocks Along the Shore 
A Last Peak At The Lighthouse 
Thunderheads on The Horizon 
The Rocky tree 
Here Are The Turtles … This Is A Series of Shots Where a Female Leatherback Lays Her Eggs on Shore. 
We Were Secluded until She Had Dug her hole And Was Laying Eggs. The Guides used Red Lights to track hen’s See The red). 
Once She Starts Laying Her eggs She Goes Into A Trance Where Any Outside Activity Is Not Noticed By Her … She Is In A Trance! 
She is About Five Feet Long 
She Digs Her Egg Hole With Her Back Flippers … The Red Spots on Her Back are From The Red Lights Shining On Her 
Here She Is .. Beautiful Eh? 
She Got All The Sand On Herself While Eggs 
She Can Be Touched While She Is In Her Trance 
She Lays 60 to 100 Eggs .. Some Are Babies, Some Are Food For them 
Then She Covers Them Up and Goes Back Into The Sea
The eggs hatch some time later. The Baby Turtles eat the eggs that don’t hatch until they are strong enough to dig their way out of the nest. They then take a GPS bearing of where they are and head to the sea. Incredibly, they return to the same spot some 25 years later after swimming the oceans all over the globe. It was a very unique experience. The Turtles are so gentle and quiet. The bad side is that thieves come and steal the babies as they crawl out to the sea … sell them. The Naturalists try to protect them until they can get to the sea.
The next Day was Mother’s Day and, as always, Nancy and I try to make these special days special.
Nancy With Her Mother’s day Gifts. Andy and Candy Always Send Something and I try to Do Something As Well. I did the Wrapping!
So That afternoon, Dean was working but his guide took us around the rest of the island and treated us to a shark sandwich. After that we took him on a tour of an amazing highly migrations of red birds.
A Condo Development Outside of Port of Spain 
I Was ready to Move 
The West bay 
Need Anything? 
Flowers 
A Shark Sandwich and a Carib Beer … Yummmm 
The Chefs 
Advertising 
Getting ready For the Evening Tour 
The Cruise That Left Just Before Us 
Something In The Tree 
Perhaps A Monkey? 
Mangroves 
Enjoying The Tour 
Roots 
From the Tree Tops 
A Flamingo 
The Red Ibis … Coming In To roost 
And some White Water Birds 
They Do Integrate! 
They Keep Coming 
… and Coming 
… and Coming 
Until The Trees Are Filled 
They Still Keep Coming 
A Bunch of Birds 
A Tree Full 
All Colors
That ended the bird tour. We had an incredible sunset that evening, we went back to the hotel, got up the next morning and flew home. Great weekend in a Great little place. Here’s the Sunset.
That’s Our Mother’s Day Weekend In Trinidad. Thank You Dean for inviting us down and sharing your weekend and Paradise with us. Always a fun time.
