As many fresh cocoa beans to eat as you wanted! Quite different to the processed brown stuff and involved sucking the white cocoa mass off the seeds.

Access to the tar lake is only possible with a licensed guide. Step in the wrong spot and it can get nasty; people have got into serious difficulty apparently. At the very least, we didn't want to get ...

Rain falls on the surface and forms warm pools. The weight of the water pulls the surface of the tar downwards and many pools are deep enough to swim in - we didn't fancy it.

Just a small section of a vast lake of pitch that has been welling up for centuries.

This is the small dock at Peake's Yard. We have come in from anchoring in the bay ready for when Tom arrives.

Preparing to motor into the Boca de Monas (Monkey's mouth). That is the narrow channel along the north coast of Trinidad that leads into the sheltered waters of Chaguaramas. Wicked currents here if yo ...

Aaaaargh! In the Doldrums with little or no wind so, when we are not motoring , we have this big fella out to catch what little wind there is.

Look at that lovely flat water. Reaching now (all sails out to the side) and steaming along with the help of the north setting current. We are clocking up great daily mileage totals - 192 the other da ...

It is like walking up the central reservation of a motorway at the moment. Boats are heading south from the Panama Canal or north on their way to the Caribbean.

Apologies for the wobbliness of the photo - we are rolling around quite abit. This fine specimen from the mackerel family will provide us with a couple of meals.