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Sulayacht
Tue 30 Oct 2012 21:36
Trinidad is home to the world only supply of pitch used in the surfacing of
roads, the houses and roads around the lake all show signs of subsidence
where the pitch is being mined, in the past it was indiscriminately mined but
now it is ‘harvested’ only for certain periods of time and then allowed to
regenerate and the life left of the pitch lake when visited is estimated to be
400 years.
The above link will give you a much better description than I could, but
for the personal touch a group of us joined a tour to this lake
and were able to walk on its rubbery surface:
![]() ![]() dip our toes on the sulpher rich waters which sit on its surface but since
it was a fairly dry day they were not deep enough for swimming:
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