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Trinidad & Tobago is home to the ‘Greatest Show on Earth’: Carnival.
You can find out a lot more about Carnival and our other festivals by visiting the Tourism Board’s website.
This man is playing in what we call a “Red Indian” or “Amerindian” band.
I go to the Central Market to get fresh fruits and produce at least once a month. Even though my country converted to the Metric system back in 1979, in the market, supermarkets, hardware stores, they still sell items using the British (imperial) or American measurement system.
Here, the vendor is weighing some sweet peppers for us on an antique scale… to the left, just in front of the pumpkin, she has sugar beet for sale. Those are one pound or two pound weights on the scale.
“What a pound for your sweet peppers?”
“Sweet peppers is $3 a pound today…”
I tried to get closer, but he saw me coming and decided to make a break for it…
We have a family of iguanas that live, work and play in my backyard.
I caught this one sunbathing on the backwall…
…sheltering in the rain one afternoon, under a mango tree branch.
He flew away soon after. Wasn’t too keen on being caught on film!
With the heavy rain and flood comes erosion. The force of the raging waters descending from the nearby foothills have caused this hole to be formed in the river bank.
It held for close to 50 years! Repair works are imminent.
We’ve always had these huge snails making trails through my yard. I live on the bank of a man-made river (but a river nonetheless), so I always encounter animal and plant life that you normally wouldn’t come across in other parts of my neighbourhood.
Came home one night, and was about to drive my car into the garage, when I saw this lil’ fella making haste to get into some grass, using my driveway as his highway. As he was there first, I figured he had ‘right of way’, and I got out my camera and started snapping away…
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