Adventure Galore!
Piates Bay in Tobago is a hidden beach near the town of Charlotteville that one has to either take a small boat to get to or hike around a mountainside! It was the filming location of the 1952 Robinson Crusoe movie and before that, during the 17th century it was a hideaway for pirates and buccaneers! There is a hushed rumour of there being treasure hidden some where there as well! The beach is quite untouched as there are no roads to get to it!
As previously mentioned, you can take a boat that takes you around an isthmus from Charlotteville but that is too quick and easy! We were up for an adventure and hiked down the mountain side down steps that were rudimentarily casted. Were surrounded by lush Tobagonian forest as we descended and it was about a 30 minute hike before we got to the clearing of the beach seeing sands and hearing waves crash against them.
The first thing I saw was this old wooden shack that was indeed the bar of this beach. Almost every beach in Trinidad and Tobago, by an unspoken rule of some sort, there is a bar. Even in this one even though it is so secluded I guess!
This was the first view I saw! There were people in the water, some in an area of sand that sea water was flowing into as well! There was a air of fun chaos and excitement, the likes of which I had not felt in a while and trust me, we visit a lot of locations!
To the left, to my great surprise was an actual pirates flag! I thought that was so cool and I really was not at all expecting there to be one! For a moment I felt like a child again and wanted to pretend that we were back in the colonial days when prates and privateers ran amok around the Caribbean and we were visiting the bay as pirates seeking leisure!
The waters seemed really calm and clean and the weather a still a bit cloudy after raining for a while but had cleared up a lot just for us. It was quite surreal to see mountains the background of a lot the shots with the beach itself and they seemed so large, I can understand why this location for chosen to film the Robinson Crusoe!
To the right side of the bay there were more people and the amazing blue waters shone through and seemed to be glowing even though it was still a bit dim and cloudy! I wondered what it would really look like when it was not cloudy at all! There seemed to be a lot of beach chairs stacked up under the treeline but I was not sure if we could just go take one or not.
The left side of the beach seemed to have a lot more activity than the right and I guessed that it was because the boats from Charlottesville landed there when dropping and picking people up when they were ready to head back and exit the bay. I just loved these long shots of the whole strip of beach with the mountains in the background.
There were people in and around the rocks where they had left their things instead of on the sands on this side. As I mentioned earlier there would be some people waiting here to be picked who were enjoying what they could before they left. There was this one man who was paddling around on an inflatable tube boat as well who seemed to be having lost of fun!
By the time I walked down the shore and back up again, exploring, there were some children who gathered at the tidepools near the pirates flag and were indulging in an awesome game of what seemed to be volleyball or maybe it was keep ups! I noticed there were rocks and other interesting things on the right side which I decided to check out.
The rocks that intrigued me seemed to be at the end of the bay on that side but it was a great place to get some awesome shots of an old and seemingly abandoned and rusted sail boat in the bay I had not noticed before! It was so interesting to see the details and weathering on the water craft and I wondered what the history was!
The rocks themselves were oranged and against the colors of the waters, it was so beautiful! I could not help but get some shots of the waves as they crashed upon the shore and with the cliff faces in the background, it was, to me, some truly amazing scenery and it left me feeling so relaxed!
There was also this hermits house built with what seemed to be rocks, mortar and wood ply! It was so interesting. It also looked more to be another bar that was closed of sorts upon a second look and the hinges on the windows gave it away!
Pirates Bay was truly a beach for the adventurer and pirate at heart. You can either sail to it like they did back in the day or chop your way through tropical forest to get there but either way it was an experience I will never forget! The waters were clear, the atmosphere was filled with glee and excitement and it will definitely be a must visit beach for me everytime we visit Tobago from henceforth! Thanks alot for coming along, cheers!