What An Ocean View!

Today we visit Las Cuevas Village on the North Coast of Trinidad during a beautiful and breath taking sunset. Fort Abercrombie is situated on top of one of the cliff faces that over look the north coast and has amazing gorges and other coastal features that the setting sun just set on fire in a brilliant and alluring manner! I take the drone to explore what the location has to offer and see what seldom seen things can be found.

The North Coast road itself takes us through the mountain range amidst lush forest and crisp clean air of verdant Trinidadian forest. The photo above shows just how narrow the north coast road is but it always is such a pleasure to take this drive. This goes without saying that it is a frequented road to get to Trinidad's most popular tourist attractions such as Maracas Beach, Paramin and others.

We got to Las Cuevas village just on time when the sun was beginning to set and the golden hour lighting pervaded the mountainside and the. village itself. The Las Cuevas bay and its fishing boats and sandy shores were also bathed in it and looked so amazing. It sort of made me feel to want to go take a bath there quickly but it would have resulting in us missing the sunset and the lighting.

Las Cuevas beach, by the way, is one of the more popular beaches just after Maracas Beach quite literally in location and in terms of popularity as well. It is less attractive but much larger and the waters just as clean, the sands just as nice. The huge difference as to why I love Las Cuevas more than Maracas though, is that its waters are much calmer and less violent. A more relaxing bathe.

The phot above shows the parking lot for Fort Abercrombie which is just under those trees as well as the paved pathway you can see on the bottom left that is the walkway from the carpark to the fort where you can see all of the ocean and the largest of the mountain ranges as well!

This photo shows the fort atop the cliff face. You can already see people on it at the edge there. Those are where the canons are and you get a great view. You can also climb down to a lower cliff ledge that is not as safe but it takes you to the first of the gorges.

Here is another view of the cliff the fort itself as well as the first of the two gorges on the left. You can see that there are a lot of trees covering most of the fort itself. The water from the ocean rushes into the gorge so violently yet beautifully it is such a pleasure to watch, also the wind created in channel is awesome!

This is what it looks like on the fort itself. You can see one of the canons on the left in the shot above. The sun was just now getting to the peninsula and the sky had just enough clouds for everything to look magical!

This is a better view of what we saw! That large peninsula you see on the left is actually what forms the bay itself and so it is the left side of Las Cuevas Bay. I just love how the light hits the waves here.

After we took in the views the view from the fort, we climbed down these makeshift rock stairs to the lower cliff closer to gorge I mentioned earlier. You can see just how rocky and unsafe it is but it is where everyone who visits come to stand and take in the beauty. You can't visit Fort Abercrombie and not come down in this area.

You can see the rocky stairway there in the shot above. It is quite unsafe and uneven but you just have to take your time and descend. The lower platform of sorts is so rocky and uneven with some rocks larger than the guy you see in the photo above that it is quite hard to navigate to get a spot to stand.

Once you do though, the view is amazing of both the gorge, its rocky faces, the rushing waters as well as the view of the mountains and the sunset not to mention the waves as they crash and rise explosively on the cliff faces.

This is a shot where you can see some of the mountain peaks that make up Trinidad's northern mountain range. If I am not mistaken, the second tallest or one of the tallest mountain peaks in Trinidad is El Tucuche which can be seen in the shot above! The photo does not show it, but you can be so taken aback by such a view, especially if you are bathing in Las Cuevas bay.

Here is the second gorge lower down from the first one where we were standing. I sent up the drone to explore the cliff faces to see what no one else can't from where we were atop Fort Abercrombie.

I flew higher and directly above the second gorge to realize that the first one was connected to the second! I doubt that many people know this as it just looks like the water rushes in and back out again in a type of dean end, not knowing that it U turns into another longer and larger gorge!

I flew a bit farther again and I saw more of the coastline that was blocked off from us. The setting sun casted red hues on the hills and cliffs that just looks so breathtaking and it beckoned me forward!

I just loved how the cliff faces looked with the mountains in the back ground as well. The there so many intricacies such as caves, inlets and even more gorges that I doubt people even knew or cared about! I was so happy to be able to capture this especially at a beautiful red sunset!

Las Cuevas and Fort Abercrombie and the cliff faces that are located there are just so breathtaking and definitely is a thousand times better and more alluring at sunset. I was glad I decided to do some aerial exploration with the drone and now I can have a greater appreciated for the beauty that only the northern coast of Trinidad can offer! Thanks for coming along, Cheers!