Trinidad and Tobago
Sangre Grande

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    • Day 24

      Up to the north

      August 5, 2022 in Trinidad and Tobago ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

      We hired a car for a few days and drove up to the north of Trinidad to Grande Riviere, hoping to see some turtle hatchlings. It’s the tail end of the leatherback laying season, but now the hatchlings are emerging. And we got lucky. We went for a walk along the beach in the late afternoon and came across a local who had gathered about 70 hatchlings. He kept them safely away from the exposed shoreline because the frigate birds and black vultures circle around, and they love a little hatchling snack. He apparently does this every day out of the kindness of his heart. We saw a couple more babies emerge and, once it was a bit darker, the little darlings were released. The hatchlings raced frantically (some quite clumsily) towards the surf and were swallowed up by the waves. It takes your breath away.Read more

    • Day 117

      OUTERHASH Trail #2

      April 27, 2022 in Trinidad and Tobago ⋅ 🌧 27 °C

      This was the Rincon Waterfalls trail, with a robust climb . . . Where to begin??? After yesterday’s experience on trail #1, the past 12 days of straight hash trails including the prelube cruise, and being quarantined in Qatar for 7 days with COVID just 3 weeks ago, I was feeling pretty sluggish this morning. As we were leaving the parking lot at the start, Likk’mm said something to me about catching up with the runners, and I uttered seven words that have rarely ever (almost never) come out of my mouth . . . “Nope, I'm doing the walking trail today.” <insert those famous string of quotes from Lloyd Bridges in the Movie AIRPLANE> . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm8fYf53SMg

      That would be the beginning of a series of events of my own creation, and being a victim of circumstance. It was dry all morning, unlike the previous few days, but just as we circled up for chalk talk . . . the rain started. Not a lot, but enough to turn trail into a slippery mess, which we would not find out until a ways up the mountain. Anyway, after the start and walking for about 5 minutes, and seeing the FRBs and front of the pack disappearing around the bend, I figured I would just run a little bit to stay in contact, but the damage was already done. As the trail snaked its way through the jungle, and onto some of those single file tracks, I ended up behind some slower runners and got way behind. But I was still planning to hit the walker’s cutoff and work my way back down the mountain.

      Although we passed several hares on trail, none of them mentioned that they were the split point. They just kept pointing us in the direction of trail. When we hit the part marked with yellow caution tape, where the instructions were that that was the point of split, there was no indication to go another way. I was with 4 or 5 other hashers at this point, and we just kept going up the stream, and then climbing. After another 20-30 minutes we come up to yet another hare, so I ask is this the split? He said no, this is the waterfalls . . . Ughhh. I mentioned that there were a few other walker’s still trudging their way up the mountain thinking there was a split . . . so the hare then went back down trail to gather them up and turn them all around. Guess I did the runner’s trail after all today.

      By this time I am double dog tired, but after a 15 minute rest I stepped off with a bold . . . 10 steps and hit the bottom of yet another incredible climb. There were about 10 hashers hanging out at the waterfalls, and they soon passed me, making me the DFL. I hated the feeling, but there was nothing I could do about it other than hope I didn’t die on trail, and leaving my body for others to carry down the mountain. 😊 After what seemed like an eternity, I finally made it to the ridge, where the hares claimed . . . “It’s all downhill from here” . . . which was mostly true. That is when it really started to pour down, and as we would find out later, the start of the flash flood.

      It was Doctor Bomb Bay and I, and one hare, making our way down the mountain. 2 miles later, we finally see the busses and the finish . . . but this is where the flash flood became an issue. There was a stream crossing right at the finish, and the entire pack had easily made it across. But when we got there, the stream had risen to probably 5 feet deep and was flowing very fast. After several attempts to find a way across, including throwing a rope over, it was useless. We reviewed our options, and our hare finally decided that we should follow the out trail back towards the start (of this A to B trail).

      Having already completed over 7 miles, the thought of slogging back another couple miles along the trail was not blowing any air up my skirt, but we all stepped off and headed that way. Our hare managed to recognize a shortcut, and we hit the main road in just 1.5 miles, making our day’s excursion into excellence just under 9 miles and just over 4 hours. We then got picked up and driven back to where the other hares were waiting, the busses had already taken the pack to the On On On. We then moved to another location to meet up with other hares, only to find out there was a flat tire. We waited for that for a bit, then we waited for another hare to change clothes, then to collect her glasses . . . THEN, we finally headed out to join the rest of the pack. WHAT A @#$!!#$@ day it was. I’ll be going back to sniffing glue (running trail) again, like Lloyd Bridges. Fortunately, the pack was happy to see us, or maybe just relieved that we were not dead. 😊

      After downing a couple beers and a bottle of water, I was feeling almost human again. So the hares said we should get circle going, and that capped off an amazing day. I really want to “again” thank all the hares for taking the time out of their already busy lives, to set trails for all the visitors of OUTERHASH this week. We certainly could not have all this fun without their effort. Circle was great, we gave the hares their customary down downs, we had a birthday cake, recognized a few heinous trail crimes, and drank lots of beers, before getting back on the busses for the hour ride back to town. Tomorrow is another day, and trail will be the Red Dress Run in town, so no chance getting stuck on the mountain . . . End of story.
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    • Day 21

      Turtle Watching - Grande Rivière

      June 23, 2023 in Trinidad and Tobago ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

      The rain stopped and we headed out for our evening adventure at Grande Rivière to watch the Loggerhead Turtles hatching. We checked into the very rustic accommodation before heading to the beach. Walking past the men returning with their days catch of King Mackerel.
      The beach was full of drift wood from the big rains, and the highlight was seeing the researchers with two newly hatched Loggerhead babies.
      We watched the sunset and are getting ready for dinner then fingers crossed that we see some Loggerheads.
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    • Day 20

      Trinidad Arrival

      June 22, 2023 in Trinidad and Tobago ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C

      It was amazing landing at Trinidad. I used my UK passport to a wood paying the Visa waiver fee. And had a good chat with the customs guy who was interested to see that I was born in Trinidad.
      After getting ‘selected’ to have our bags Re-scanned we finally made it out of the airport where we were met by my cousin Gladys and her husband Ernest.
      We then drove 1.5hrs north east to Balandra to stay with Bruce and Margaritte and their 5 dogs!
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    • Day 21

      Leatherback Turtles

      June 23, 2023 in Trinidad and Tobago ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C

      This evening at 9pm we headed to the Turtle 🐢 Research centre where we meet our guide - Ronald. Heading out with just red light torches 🔦 so as not to disturb the Turtles we arrived on the beach.
      Here we saw so many Leatherback Turtles - and they we MASSIVE! Larger than me.
      The females had come up onto the beach to lay their eggs . We were privileged to be able to see the whole process guided by Ronald.
      Some key facts we learnt -
      - The females have to reach 25 years old before they are ready to lay their eggs
      - Only approx 1 per 1000 eggs will survive.
      - These turtles are FAST they can swim 100m in 10 Sec 😳
      & 4000 ft down!!
      This beach in Trinidad has the MOST laying female leatherback turtles in the whole world.
      We made it back to the hotel at around 11:30pm
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    • Day 9

      Trinidad, grand rivier

      March 19, 2017 in Trinidad and Tobago ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C

      Wanderung zum Wasserfall mit David. Das Hotel ist etwas zu öko für den Preis und unseren Geschmack. Die Toilette ist schon seit dem 1. Tag kaputt....
      Morgen geht's weiter ins pax guesthouse, Engländer wir freuen uns schon auf den 5 uhr Tea 😃Read more

    • Day 8

      Trinidad, grande riviere

      March 18, 2017 in Trinidad and Tobago ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C

      Anreise mit caribian Airlines, dann ging's weiter mit einer tiida. Die Straßen ziemlich abenteuerlich, hat uns einen Plattfuß gekostet....
      Nach dem Frühstück haben wir das Örtchen erkundet, mal sehen was der Tag noch bringtRead more

    • Day 22

      This is what TT is all about

      June 24, 2023 in Trinidad and Tobago ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

      After a the past three weeks flying about and seeing amazing things we got to relax by Bruce and Margaritte. The weather was perfect and we all just enjoyed the pool and beautiful view.

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