Asa Wright - Day 7 to Blue Waters

Up early as before and on the way down we spotted these amazing moths.  They really do look just like leaves.

And this fabulous one on the side of a wall.

Then Ian spotted this little fellow.

We packed quickly after breakfast and were sitting on the veranda when a new few people arrived, then some more and more and more – a cruise ship party of 100 yuk!  Luckily they were soon divided into 4 groups and taken off down the nature trails – it being Thanksgiving today we had a good laugh at the lovely meal the chiggers will get from these flip-flop and shorts wearing visitors.

More lovely birdies (nothing new I don't think). 

This Green Hermit had built a nest above the light fitting in the lounge area.

Actually I think this is new - Southern House Wren - very like our Little Jenny Wren

Whilst I really hate the feeders, I know without them this lovely lady wouldn't have posed for me for so long.

While Ian was having a coffee on the veranda I wandered off down the drive and saw a Tropical Skipper and a couple of butterflies.

And this lovely oozing fungus.

We heard that the hoards were staying for lunch and as we had to leave for the airport at 12:30 I had a word with Paula the lovely Maitre D’ and she arranged for us to go in at 11:45 so we weren’t caught up in a huge queue.  It worked out well as the driver was keen to leave early as he had to be back for 3pm for another airport run (Jill and Dave catching the evening flight to London).  No sooner had we driven off than we could hear a ‘tick tick tick’ coming from one wheel which Randall (yet another family member) diagnosed as a nail, luckily being early we had time for him to pop into his tyre shop and get it repaired – meanwhile Ian and I wandered around the cemetery opposite.

I sincerely hope prosecutions are carried out on mosquito breeders as I've had upward of 80 bites this holiday.

There was a burial going on so we didn't stop for long or wander far but thought this was a charming way of describing birth and death.

We were still quite early for our flight but the flight departing one an hour before ours was showing delayed.  To cut a long story short that flight left when ours should have, ours and the next flight were cancelled and a larger jet was chartered to accommodate both flights’ passengers.

Our drive to Blue Waters Inn at the very north east of Tobago is about 90 mins and we should have got here around dusk at 6pm.  Instead of which the whole drive was in the dark and we didn’t arrive until 8:30pm.

The hotel is very nice, situated on the beach, glorious views, but with ambitions above itself.  The toilet failed to refill after its first flush so we duly informed reception who sent maintenance.  He fiddled around for a while and we left him to it and went to dinner.  Mr Maintenance came to report that he couldn’t fix the loo tonight so he’d refilled the cistern manually and suggested we could make do with that until tomorrow – noooooo, says I, that is not OK, maybe you should find us a different room.  Off he went and some half hour later returned to say it was fixed – and it was.   Being so close to the ocean things feel damp and it also smells a little mouldy.  Plugging anything electrical in involves moving a cabinet away from the wall.  Oh, and I would have liked a teaspoon for the morning coffee.

On the positive side, the bed is huge, there’s aircon, nice toiletries and a superb shower.  

Dinner was very nice, although service slow (I had read this on TripAdvisor).