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I decided to take advantage of my paid vacation and spend two weeks in Trinidad and Tobago. My good friend Kevin Fortune, who I met in college, is from Trinidad and was a phenomenal tour guide. I stayed away from computers, cell phones and any reading materials related to the economy and/or the environment. <br><br> <br>

... him to complete it. The second temple was alot bigger, very ornate and very beautiful. It also had a massive, very colourful statue of Hanuman. It seemed a very special place and I was moved by it, though I can't really understand why. The tour finally brought us to a bird sanctuary where we took a very relaxing boat ride and watched the bright red Scarlet Ibis come to roost. There seemed to be thousands of them and the trees looked like holly ...

... The final Carnival event for us was the Mardi Gras Parade of Bands. We were picked up at 6:30 am so that we could get good seats in the stands and we watched hour after hour of bikini-clad men and women shimmy and shake all their sparkles and other things. Anyone can "march" in the parade and regardless of the body shape or size, the "costumes" are tiny. Obviously a large number of these people did not read the directive we saw which was "DO NOT wear ah size Small ...

... jours. A la fin des 2 jours les participants sont juges sur la danse et leur costume. Des 8am les gens enfilent leur costume se preparent un bon verre de rhum et d'autres boissons tres fortes et se mettent a danser au rythme d'une musique, qu'apres une journee je qualifie d'infarnale. Bien que cette musique qui etait 20 fois trop forte me tombait un peu sur les nerfs, je me suis surprise ...

... er! Once in Scarborough, I did the steep, hot hike up to the fort, for some good views. Then it was off the popular destination of Crown Point. That included swimming at Store Bay and Pigeon Point. Crown Point can be summed up in one word: YUCK!! (note the double exclamation). If it wasn't for the very cool Germans I met at Pigeon Point, it would have been a wash. They told me to head to other parts of Tobago for a much better time. The next day I left for Charlotteville, on ...

... het alleen nog maar erger worden.We besluiten het er maar op te wagen. Na een heftige, twee uur durende regenbui verlaten we de rollerige ankerplaats van Store Bay. In no time breekt de zon door en varen we met zo'n zeven knopen wind in de rug naar Trinidad. Er spelen dolfijnen rond de boot en na een paar uur zien we de ruige kustlijn van Trinidad. En ja, dan vindt ook Syl zeilen weer geweldig! Zodra het donker wordt zien we heel veel fluorescentie ...

It has almost been two weeks now that we have been merily bobbing up and down to the mothion of the ocean. Two weekends ago we were hauled up into the air to allow us to service and paint the centre board, and that is how we remained till Monday. All things considered, the schedual and theory of removing the centre board from its unaccessible cavern in the keel went surprisingly well. Apart from the heavens opening up and drenching us every so ...

Well we are on our fourth day in Trinidad &amp; Tobago (T&amp;T) and a little bit burnt. I'll run through our journey so far. Our flight from Dublin to London was delayed 2 hours which was great on the Dublin side because it meant more drinks with Emma, but not so good on the London side because it meant we got in too late to make it out to Caoimhe's place for the night. So we slept in the airport. Now when I say slept... we got a few mins here and there. So we ...

... have another shower and for a new change of clothes. Which within a short wile of placing the newly cut locker boarrds to-be in their places and planing what im going to do with the Fwd abin and Heads, were covered in the fine white dust once again.... Lets hope tomorrow brings more luck. In between all the fiberglass modifications we have been living up to our normal starndars of the Cruising Life... Every weekend ...

... fear; I have experience as a rugged outdoorsman. Need I remind you that I'm the veteran of two Brazilian Amazon treks? Neither ending in death. Surprisingly. And I grew up in that unconquerable grave-filling land known as Michigan. Michigan! Where, only a young boy, I hassled with frogs and crayfish as big as three inches long in terrain as dangerous as my backyard three weeks after it had last been mowed! Buuh--dum ... buuh--dum ... (Imagine the theme from "Jaws ...