“We went with Keith on a boat trip. He used to be

Tobago’s champion body builder and you can tell, he

sounds like Barry White and he is great fun. His boat

has a glass bottom  so we could see the corals and

fish. We snorkeled – mum’s first time, she found it

scary as she kept breathing through her nose! Bless!

And then we reached Nylon pool. Picture the deep blue

sea, far out away from the shores and all of a sudden

this pool of crystal light green waters emerges with

white sand and you can stand on it and the water

doesn’t even reach your hip! They told us the sand was

not sand at all it was pieces of corals and if we

rubbed it on us we would leave 10 years younger –

guess what we all did? Hihi yep, I am now 24! Heaven

is in Tobago and Nylon pool is its heart. So so warm,

no one wanted to leave but we had to go to No Man’s

Land where a beach barbecue awaited us – fresh caught

fish, chicken, wonderful tasty salads, rice and a

lentil stew. While Keith grilled the food we were

offered the typical Rum punch. We were all thirsty and

it is red and fresh so I had 2, wow, it is powerful

stuff. Good thing we were all sitting in the water as

we drank it, we just stayed there till it wore off!!

hihi The food of course was divine as always and

afterwards there was a limbo competition with Keith

demonstrating and everyone following. I managed to be

the official photographer as I could not miss my mum

doing it and guess what? She won the title of Limbo

queen and a bottle of Rum!!! Hihi Then we all danced

together at the sounds of their wonderful soca music

and on the way home I went on top of the boat’s roof

as the sun set. Truly breathtaking.”

The next day was my birthday so this lovely couple we

met there offered to take us all around the island

since they had a car. I loved it, all the green mounts

and valleys and coast everywhere, the houses on

stilts, the bays, the villages, the waterfall. We went

for a drink in the evening and I had a pina colada as

the steal band played its happy tunes.

We went on one more tour a couple of days later, along

the coast but by sea and we had to fish –believe it or

not I was the only one who caught anything!!! I caught

a great big tuna which they prepared later and we all

ate it grilled on the beach!!! We snorkeled a lot and

I saw fishes of all colours, corals and even a turtle.

We finally settled in a bay where there were 2 huge

tame sting rays!!! I mean for real!!! Huge and they

swam with us, around us, on top of us and we touched

them and played with them, they sometimes came from

behind and tripped us so we had to lift our legs

quickly for them to swim under… soft as silk. They

were fed every day so apparently they didn’t want to

leave and never hurt people. The bay was completely

open, they had had babies and the babies swam away but

not them, they found pleasure in our delight as we did

in theirs. After yet another delicious beach barbecue

we sped away with 70’s music blasting in our ears… It

was magical… something unique. 

In every way Tobago was so much more than I ever

imagined. A choice by accident, an impulse and I know

now I will have to return again one day. Well next

time without my mum, though I must say I’m glad I did

it, she was happy and so was I and now it is done and

I’ll never one day say I wish I’d done it because I

did do it.

The people of Tobago are incredibly friendly and

charming. There is nothing about Tobago that one can

not like, every aspect is almost mystical.