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May 11, 2007
Tobago, Day One
The next morning, we flew all of twenty minutes to Tobago and took a taxi to our hotel and the western tip of the island. I was surprised by how dry the landscape of Tobago was--I knew it was the dry season but it wasn't until our taxi driver indicated it was the driest dry season in nearly a decade that I better understood the reason for the brown grasses and trees. The ride was long and the road windy but we got to see the entire southern stretch of Tobago, which was dotted with sheds, goats, hills, and beach. As we pulled into the entrance of Blue Waters Inn, I thought we had reached paradise, looking the expanse of aquamarine water below.
We had lunch at the hotel restaurant, which overlooked the beach and then hit the beach itself. The water was warm and pleasantly shaded and small fish darted around the shallows. I decided against lounging along the beach afterwards though after I saw the multitude of ants walking along the sand and felt the stickiness of the ocean water on my skin (the salinity of the ocean water in Speyside, where our hotel was located, seemed quite high). Instead, we retreated to our hotel room. After showering, we lay our heads down to take what we thought would be a brief nap and ended up waking up two hours later, after the sun had set.
I had heard good things about Jemma's, a local restaurant and Tobago institution and, after being told by hotel reception that lots of guests walked there, we trudged up the hotel driveway towards the main road. Walking through the nighttime soup of humidity in pitch black darkness was a surreal experience, one I probably would not like to repeat. As it turned out, Jemma's ended up being closed so we had dinner at a nearby restaurant and happily took a taxi back to our hotel.
Adam at Blue Waters Inn
Speyside
Posted by Jennifer at May 11, 2007 11:50 PM