Planning trips
on Kate in Guyana (Guyana), 26/Apr/2010 19:51, 34 days ago
We had a very wet day yesterday - it was hosing it down in hour long blocks with the odd half hour between, just to get your hopes up. So I spent some time looking ahead to our trip to Tobago at the end of July. It's not the kind of holiday that I'm used to! Tobago is small and quiet compared to Trinidad, and the north eastern end even more so. The whole island is only 25 miles long by 5 miles wide, there are buses up and down the coast roads, so we can hop around to rain forest trails, boat trip to wildlife island, snorkelling on reefs, waterfalls, turtle beaches - sounds great.A bit closer is a trip next weekend to Rockstone - which is a bit more my style, rough and ready. Another volunteer has a boat there on the Essequibo river. You get proper rooms to stay in, but you take all your own food and hire the kitchen. It will be great to have a weekend away, and I'm looking forward to the boating. It is a flat bottomed boat, which is paddled I think. Let's hope the weather is a bit better.We are trying to get a list of ten good things about Guyana - I think one of them has to be the blue sky in the morning after a day of rain. You can't count the weather generally as it is too hot and humid.