intro T&T - mission north coast of Trinidad I

Over the next few posts we will try our very best to explore the northcoast of trinidad, there is so much to see and so much to do, but hoping we can cover as much of it as possible

so that bay is maracas bay but we wont be stopping there today, onward to blanchisseuse, so our stop is at marianne bay, blanchisseuse. Blanchisseuse (pronounced, in the local English dialect, "blan-chee-shears") is a village located about midway along the north coast of Trinidad on the northern slope of the Northern Range, about 24 km north of Arima.

The village was settled by the French following the Cedula of Population in 1783.

When Captain Frederick Mallet was charting and surveying the island of Trinidad following its capitulation to the British in 1797, he was told that the village had no name. Observing the women washing clothes in the river, he simply wrote on his survey chart: "Ladies River". Later, the settlers called the place after the washerwomen the surveyor had seen, "blanchisseuse" being the French for "washer-woman".

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there is lots to see, from para sailing, to kayaking on the marianne river,
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to taking in the wild life, no he wasnt the only wodlife we found.

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on to the waterfall