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We finally get to explore Tobago.
After almost 5 months in Trinidad we finally made it to the blue waters of Tobago.
When arriving in Tobago we anchored in Mount Irvine Bay, a quiet little bay on the SW side of the island. We had to check in with customs and immigration (yes even though we were still in the same country) which is in Scarborough which is on the SE side of the island. Teagan and I took the dingy to shore, locked it up on a railing to the right of the life guard tower and restaurant and walked up the the main road.
There is a bus stop right there but we decided to try and get a ride share instead which was TT$ 9 each. Scarborough was about a 10 - 15 minute drive from mount Irvine.
We had to go to the Fairy/ Cruise ship Terminal and check in with Immigration first. The. You head out of the fairy terminal and east straight down the same road until you reach a Rituals Coffee and Churches Chicken on the left hand side of the road and you turn right, customs is a small building near where the huge red and white ferries park to offload people and cars.
The anchorage at mount Irvine bay was incredibly rolly while we were there. We had friends who were previously there and raved about how great and quiet it was. Unfortunately when we were there there was a funny system of swell coming from the North which made for big swells swooping through the anchorage.
The under water life and Mt Irvine was beautiful. There was lots of coral just in-front of the restaurant between the breakers and the still water. We also found incredible brain coral and life if you snorkel close to the rocks to the right of the hotel and dive shop. The reef comes up really shallow. The visibility wasn’t great and we put it down to the fact that there was a lot of swell coming through which could have been turning up a lot of sediment in the water.
We spent a day driving around Tobago with SY Puff - Kris and Ingrid. We managed to do almost the entire coast line of Tobago in a few hours - it’s not a hard thing to do because the island is so small 😂
We stopped along the way at Shurland Hummingbird Viewpoint which overlooked a valley and the ocean. You pay TT$60 to be able to sit there at her beautiful look out, she gives you sugar water in your own individual containers so you can feed the hummingbirds. She also give you a piece of cake and a juice or coffee, we had opted for her fresh juice which was made of ginger, turmeric and lemon it was absolutely delicious!
There were so many hummingbirds the felt like flies around our heads, swooping around us, chasing each other, sipping sugar water from the feeders and stopping to check us out every now and then. It was such an incredible experience to be able to sit there and have wild hummingbirds so freely buzzing around you.
The roads in Tobago are narrow and windy, we are very grateful that Kris opted to drive!
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