Hello Y'all,
Here we are sitting in the marina getting our freezer fixed so we can start putting more than 3 days of food at a time. Anyway while I have a good connection on this computer I'll go ahead and post the photos from Chacachacare ( now if you need to know how to say this island all I can tell you is there are 2 ways). Here goes, Americans say ( catch a canary) everyone else say it correct
( Shocka Ka Sharere) so if you can pronounce that last phrase you have the correct pronouncenation .

Here at the top is a shot from the top of the highest mountain on the island. Karen & I jumped out of the boat at 0900 Hrs. and started up the trail. This damn thing was almost straight up. Two hours later we where back at the boat completly wore out. The say the hike is only 1/2 mile but that's not counting all the twist and turns and the 1/2 mile is straight up.

Anyway we did enjoy the time we were on the island. These are shots of the nunnery with the buzzards on the porch. Now I'm not saying that they weer following us but it did seem to us that everywhere we went there was plenty of these birds around.

The shot above is from the porch of the nunnery and the quarters they slept in, the had plenty of room and a very airy home. Karen is standing in front of the mens quarters and they lived O.K. but were a little cramped, not like the nuns.

Above is the Chapel in the womens quarters which had a lot more room than the men. I guess being run by nuns who happen to be women I can see why.

On the left is the doctors house which is real nice as for as the buildings go.

There was a rumor was that everything was left as it was when the whole island just up and left because they thought it was haunted. i have talked to a few people that was there years ago and claim that there was still dishes and file cabnets,x-ray machines and beds with sheets still on them,we did not see anything. There was plenty of trash and graffiti because the local Trinis think that the water ways and the beaches are there private dump sights.

This is a manned light house on the island and up at the top of that straight up trail that we hiked up. I hope y'all enjoy this rather long post form me . There will not be another for a couple of weeks because we are doing our best to leave Trinidad. The theft of dingies is rampant and now the boats on the hard are being broke into so this is not where we want to be.

See Y,all Down the Road

Mike & Karen