Trindad carnival
Sarah Grace goes to sea
Chris Yerbury and Sophy White
Tue 7 Mar 2006 09:28
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Trinidad Carnival 5th March
2006
Apologies for the radio
silence over the last week. The scale of activities here has precluded
anything so sensible as sending reports. The boat became a ghastly
dumping ground of filthy clothes as we rushed in and out, and off to the next
mind boggling event. We were all exhausted, and were not even
performers! There has been a national (and family) sigh of relief,
as it is all over. Port of Spain seemed to recover remarkably quickly from
being a party ground for several hundred thousand people, and is now back to
being the capitol city.
Here is a lorryload of
muddy people returning from Jouvet. We didn't get anything like as muddy
as this, but I had one of the most wonderful times of my life dancing along with
the pan bands in the dawn. The dance is slow, an almost trance like
rhythmic march called chipping.
Here are a tiny selection
of pictures of the carnival parade proper that went on on the Tuesday after
Jouvet. They danced past throughout the boiling day, thousands
and thousands of people in so many different spectacular costumes..
Since then we have been to
an amazing bird sanctuary in the rain forest up in the mountains, and visited
our local friends. Here is a picture of Otti and Mimi in the
mini-van.
We now have a couple of
days to get organized before the slog to windward, north to St Lucia.
Freddy is coming out to join us there during Easter for a couple of weeks.
I am not ready to leave Trinidad, it is such a great place.
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