A trip to Tobago

After spending some happy weeks in Grenada following our return trip to the UK, we decided to join some friends in sailing to Tobago. We spent a couple of great weeks on that lovely island before heading over to Trinidad to get out of the way of advancing hurricane Ivan.

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	Voyager, a Valiant monohull, is crewed by Ron and Jodi from the USA. Ron has owned Voyager for over 20 years and sailed her all over the Pacific. She was completely rebuilt a  few years ago and is now for sale as Ron and Jodi have decided to switch to catamaran sailing. If you want to buy a great ocean going monohull, check out www.valiant-voyager.com.
	Allways Sunday, a Lagoon 38 catamaran, is now home for Drury and Jennifer from Canada. They took delivery of her about a year ago and are now enjoying life cruising the Caribbean.
	Blue Marine is a Lagoon 41 and the boat of choice for Todd and Lynn from the USA. They have both taken early retirement from the IT business and swapped life ashore for life afloat. Together we called ourselves the Prickly Bay Yacht Club, after the bay from where we all set off.
	Tobago has lovely anchorages, and one of the loveliest is Anse Bateau, on the Atlantic coast. It also has one of the few decent dinghy docks on the island. It's a small bay though, and Blue Marine and Allways Sunday had to raft up together to make room for us all.
	A view of Anse Bateau taken from the hill overlooking the bay.
	Yet another relic of past plantation glories - a ruined waterwheel we found when walking from Anse Bateau This is quite a large wheel and must have provided a lot of power in its day.
	Local colour: a tame parrot which hangs around the dive shop at Anse Bateau.
	We all went for a rainforest walk, and had an excellent guide who pointed out the features of the forest along the way.
	Drury and Jodi admire the bamboo, now found all over the Caribbean, but originally imported with a view to making paper.
	The stems in this stand are as thick as your arm, as Todd demonstrates. They say that bamboo flowers once every 50-75 years, then dies.
	A sighting of the shy but beautiful mot-mot bird in the rainforest.
	Our guide could only describe this striking seed head as 'parrot food', and said it fell from a tree high up in the canopy.
	After walking in the rainforest we visited the Argyll falls which cascade down through several pools. The highest is great for swimming and standing under the pounding cascade - said to take ten years off your age!
	Horses bathing in Englishman's Bay.

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