Rainy Beach Visit
Sometimes when heading to the beach is a scarce affair, we must persist even when faced with inclement weather. It was not so much a bad thing though as the rains beautified the way to the beach even more than it usually is. The road that leads to Maracas beach as we mentioned in our previous blogs before takes you through huge mountains and lush vegetation. The mists that were brought by the rainy weather made the mountains look amazing and the temperature perfect for a leisurely drive through the wilderness with the glass down. Call me unorthodox but I do really love rainy days at the beach. Sure you don't get to play in the sand but bathing is much cooler and the sun is not a bother.
We drove through the northern range and we could not help but admire the sights and sounds of the beautiful lush green Trinidadian bush that the wet conditions seemed to magnify. If I could remember clearly, we stopped off on the side of the road so many times to take pictures of either the mountains or the trees that we took way longer to arrive at our destination than we should have. What mainly caught my eyes were the crowns and crests of mists that canopied the mountain tops. It made me feel so cosy and at home and I was proud to be part of such a great nation.
Arriving at the car park, there were also mountain ranges in view there that looked just as great as the previous ones. There were also some promising blue patches in the sky. There were still a lot of trinidadians and tourists out in their numbers at the beach amidst the inclement weather!
We quickly rented a tent and some beach chairs while setting up coolers with food and drinks. We had brought along a snack called chow. In Trinidad, chow is made with a half ripe fruit like mango, paw paw, portugals and so on with savoury seasonings such as salt, pepper and other green seasonings. We love spicy foods and chow is a huge thing in Trinidad, where the main flavour is that of the pepper itself. We brought mango chow and it goes down great before taking a dip which is what we did right after!
There were lots of people and there was never a dull moment as you would expect. The water was a great refreshing temperature and it was a very much needed beach break. For some reason it feels like salt water cleanses and rejuvenates the skin while relieving stress.
Maracas bay as it is called so because of the flanking risen peninsulas on either side, looked so amazing with the crowning mists. While exploring around for food after a nice dip, we saw the bake and shark stands as well as other vendors in the area. The beach was undergoing some renovations otherwise these vendors would have been in their usual huts that were part of the trademark imagery of the beach. We ended up getting ice cream instead for the while as we agreed to save our bellies for KFC instead. Mind you we brought our own food as well, but sometimes you want to eat something else for dinner.
My friend got her coconut water just for instagram. These people were selling chilled coconut water in the nut itself with their trademark branded on the sides. It was brilliant really and I would quite rather buy that than the ones in the bottles as you know for sure that it was not pasteurized until there were no nutrients left. PLus the natural packaging should be healthier than plastic right?
All in all it was a brilliant beach day even though some may consider the weather inappropriate. That’s just how we Trinidadians are anyway, we just go where the lime is. Lime is the trinidadian word for any sort of outing, party or leisure activity. It is a noun as well as a verb. So you can ask your friend “When are we liming?” or say “Are you coming to the lime this Sunday?”. Trinidadian culture! You just learned something awesome! You wanna know something more awesome? Noone knows where the use of the term originated! To close it all off, I leave you with a brilliant rainbow and sunset that we got on our way home that day, and it was a poetic end to our little beach lime!
