Early Sunday morning we arrived in Chaguaramas, Trinidad, an old US military base. We're in a marina for the first time since we left Antigua over 2 weeks ago. We've all been taking full advantage of being able to hop on and off the boat whenever we want! Yesterday was a chill out day so after long awaited showers most of the gang took it easy and stayed around the boat yard and went over to see the Spirit of Oysterhaven in the next marina over.
Noel, Fiona and Fionnuala decided to venture further afield and headed out of the 'compound' and got a lift in the back of a pickup truck into the capital Port of Spain. A steel pan drumming competition was being held - picture 50+ people with various alterations of 45 gallon drums with strategically placed dents and holes. These drums were fixed to makeshift trailers and the 20 bands queued up around the city waiting for their turn onfront of the judges.
This evening we head on our long passage North. We spent the morning scrubbing the decks (Hugh, Felicity & Kate) and grocery shopping (Niall, Noel, Fiona & Fionnuala). We'll be out of contact for a few days but will include some pictures of the steel pan Soca bands in the next entry.
Fionnuala
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