Tobago - Buccoo
Today we have mainly been relaxing after our journey yesterday. Sadly, some of it has been spent cussing the iPad as it keeps altering my blogs and then prevents me from editing them. I had almost finished today's offering when it did some unspeakable things and I was forced to delete the whole blog!
After a slow start and breakfast we set off to find a supermarket and ATM. These we found by following Auchenskeoch Rd to Carnbee. Here we found a Penny Market and a bank machine. We found all sorts of interesting food in the shop, items you'd never find in UK, but little or no fruit or veg.
We'd read about a fruit stand back near the airport, do we headed there. The one we'd read about was closed, but we found another almost opposite it on Milford Rd. There were quite a few fruits and vegetables that we couldn't identify, but did buy some fruit that looked like Clementines but were green. Later, we found they tasted exactly like Clementines!
As we had chilled and frozen food, we returned to the apartment at Buccoo.
After a lazy lunch, we decided to go out and explore the area. We firstly drove back into the village to the beach. We could see if you walked south down the beach, you could choose your own spot to relax and swim. From here,new headed along the main road that skirts Mount Irvine Golf Course, to Mount Irvine bay, this has a nice beach too. Sadly, it started raining and we didn't fancy sitting on the beach in the rain!
We carried on to Grafton and Stonehaven, both of which have nice beaches. From here we carried on
to Plymouth where we briefly stopped at a Fort James, a British gun battery from the 18th century. As we were leaving, an older man tried to wave us down and as we tried to avoid him he walked in front of the car so we had to stop. I wound the window down a little way to speak to him and he grasped my hand and wouldn't let go as he explained he needed some money. Eventually, I managed to pull my hand away and had to close the window before he grabbed me again. A somewhat unnerving experience
On leaving Plymouth, we headed generally north and east following the Arnos Vale road. This road winds around the hills through Arnos Vale and Golden Vale to Moriah where it joins the main east
coast road. The road was very windy, hilly and narrow with enormous potholes in places, but it was interesting passing through the small communities. Many people keep goats and you find them tethered all over the place. We also came across tethered cows too.
We returned on the main road that goes through Scarborough. It was quite a busy road especially
around Scarborough where there was lots of traffic. At one junction, someone turned across the road right in front of me. Although I jammed the brakes on, the car skidded on the wet road. Somehow, I managed to swerve around the back of him and miss him. Luckily, there was nothing coming the other way.
Back at Buccoo, we went back to relaxing. I was watching the Blue-Grey Tanagers, Bananaquits and Grackles around the gardens surrounding us.
We had chilli for dinner tonight, a bit of a meat overload, but very tasty.
As a footnote, my blogs might not have many, if any photos as it seems to mess up the blog. I stand corrected about our rental car, it is a Nissan Tiida Latio. I know, I've never heard of one either!
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