Beach and Roti
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Thu 19 Nov 2009 23:58
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Manzanilla
Beach
   We arrived at Manzanilla Beach, Jesse warned us about undertow and gave
us half an hour to go play in the surf. We went out to about hip height, the
crashing waves threw us back toward the beach.
   We really enjoyed ourselves on this
beautiful beach, fully manned with Life Guards. Bear took this shot along the way of the mounds of coconut husks that will be sold as fertiliser.
After our play at wave riding we spent 10 pence or one TT$ on a shower looked
after exceptionally well by two ladies.
 The reason there are so many thousands
of coconut trees along this beach is an 'Urban
Legend' that a cargo boat carrying them broke up at sea and they planted
themselves.
 We stopped at a fruit stall and for £3
Bear bought me this Brazil Nut. The thing weighs
about three pounds and now makes us realise why the nuts we used to buy at
Christmas were always so expensive. If one of these thing hits a harvester on
the back of the head - a safety helmet would give no protection - it could kill
you. The actual nuts are sitting around in a fleshy bed. The white thing is the
fruit attached to the nut.
   Our
salesman giving Bear the 'ins and outs' of the aphrodisiac qualities of
making a soup from the white bits. By comparison to Bear's fingers you can see
the size of the beast. Being sold to.
   Then we stopped at a posh Roti Shack
that Jesse can remember it being little more than a shed when he first started
eating there. We had beef rotis, the meat was so
tender and delicious.
     It was a pleasure to watch Jesse enjoying every bit and washing it down with a
Coke.
  School
children were coming out as we got back onto the road.
  I loved this window arrangement as we drove by. And this sign was too
good to be true - Scrunter's Pork Dance
   My favourite house
on Trinidad that commands stunning views over Port of Spain and the sea
off Chaguaramas
   By the evening you could call me "Toxic Nell"
ALL IN ALL A REALLY GOOD AND
VARIED DAY - THANK YOU JESSE, WE WERE EVEN
TOO TIRED FOR AN ICE-CREAM
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