Eco-touring

Trip Start Jun 26, 2007

Trip End Jun 28, 2007

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Flag of Trinidad and Tobago St. Ann's, La Brea, Caroni Swamp, Trinidad and Tobago
Sunday, July 29, 2007

I stayed in St. Ann's, at the foothills of the rainforest and Queens Park Savannah. The hotel was in a wonderful setting. I was able to observe jungle life while having breakfast each morning outside, and the location is the closest safe neighborhood to Port of Spain. The Queen's Park Savannah is called the world's largest roundabout and the center for Carnival in February. The Botanic Gardens carry plenty of birdlife.

Asphalt (Pitch) Lake in La Brea is the largest tar pit in the world, now at about 115 acres. It is shrinking as it moves regularly. The blob will swallow and regurgitate anything, and you really have to follow a guide, or you may get sucked into the "Mother of the Lake" blob.

Caroni Swamp is the site of the Scarlet Ibis birds, as they arrive in flocks each evening from Venezuela, to nest for the night.

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St Anns - Alicia's Palace	Parrots in the wild - St Ann's	View of Port of Spain	Alicia's Palace
Port of Spain	Pitch Lake	Pitch Lake - Birds of Paradise	water pools - Pitch Lake
Pitch Lake - tour	Water lilies - Pitch Lake	living tar!	Having fun with tar!
Regurgitating	Bathing	Jaccuzzi time!	Ameena and Derek
Caroni Swamp evening boat tour	Blue Heron	Gecko	See the cayman alligator??
The usual ginormous termite nest	Boa Constrictor sleeping in Mangrove tree roots	old watch tower	Scarlet Ibis