Papa Joe's Place Tobago

... of swimming and watersports opportunities it really has an ideal location. The Coco Reef offers bed & breakfast and an All Inclusive arrangement. Further along the Caribbean coast is the Plantation Villas ...

... before and had never really seen the point. Here was a pretty good place to start though and I really enjoyed finding all these exotic fish and chasing after them. I was a little dissappoointed that i didn't see any (non-aggressive) sharks, moray eels or octupii but that just leaves them for another time. The coral was beautiful and it felt like another adventure. Another day we went to some waterfalls, led by a grumpy guide who left us there. The falls were very nice and ...

... someone's groin). They wouldn't stop just because the girl said no or said she wasn't interested or pushed the guy away. When they did give up they'd go to the next girl in the group. As soon as one guy left a girl there would be ten to take his place. I was glad to be a boy. The party stopped when a policeman with a shotgun raised in the air ordered everyone to turn the music off.

... next day was interesting but mainly because my guide kept pointing out the obvious the whole time. "this road is very wavy" as we dip in and out of pavement seemingly inspired by laffy taffy. "do you see the water? that's the ocean" umm, yeah. i would imagine it would be seeing as we are surrounded by it. he was very sweet though and kept telling me to eat more oranges, which he then slammed to stop in the middle of the ...

... else. In many places there are people selling "doubles" out of the backs of trucks...for example at the airport in Trinidad. A double is two pieces of fried dough filled with a concoction of curry and spices and pigeon peas, covered in green and hot sauces...and doubles are fantastic. A double double (two doubles) costs a little more than $1.00 and is a very filling breakfast!

... sich vo une bis obe mit Dreck iischmiert (demit alli gliichusgsehnd) und daenn hindereme Musigtruck dur d'Strasse tanzt bis es hell wird. Das isch d'Eroeffnig vom Carnival. Mir sind also au detane und chum simmer det acho haends ois mit schlamm und rote Farb beschmisse vome truck us. De schlamm isch eigentli no ganz fein gsi, wills under de Dreck no schoggipulver gmischt haend und s'ganze richtig schoen nach schoggi ...

There is a reason they call it the rain forest! Unfortunately it has been raining pretty much non stop since we arrived. We did finally get our luggage which in and of itself was miracle. We have toured the leeward side of the isalnd and the beaches at Castara and Englishmen's Bay really are ...

3 Taeg haemmer ois am am Carnivalstress welle entzieh und sind z'Tobago an Strand. Das isch wie scho gseit d'Nachbarinsle vo Trinidad. Det gits luuter paradiesischi Sandstraend, viel Sunne und feins Aesse... mmm.... Aber lueged doch d'Bilder saelber ah...

... around the place a pleasure - plenty of local interaction which is generally free of the persistent hawking you get elsewhere. So the below covers parts of the island further afield than the well developed north-western coast, travelling in geographical order clockwise from Turtle beach. We headed this way on three separate occasions - once by ...

... This event was significant. Because, five years ago when I began college, I made my first non-American friend: Lester Kelvin Joseph "Fu" "Octopus" "Johnny" "The Caped Avenger" "A Girl's Best Friend" "Ike" Chang Foung, from Trinidad. He had many names - and a HUGE octopus-like fold in his head. We also called him "Fu the Iguana Smuggler" because he used to tell us stories of people catching iguanas in his homeland to sell as pets in Venezuela ...