Maracas Beach

We finally reached Maracas beach!

Students end class at 2:30 in the weekdays, so we had thought it would be easy to drive to the beach after classes during the week. Unfortunately, this didn't end up being the case. We usually ended up driving around the city doing errands, trying to find banks that dispensed american dollars to pay our apartment rent, doing groceries etc. On Thursday, we left the school at around 3 o'clock and begun our drive to Maraca's Bay, which is 30-40 minutes north of Port of Spain. It was a beautiful drive up, the scenery was gorgeous, but slightly dangerous as local drivers have no fear in flying through the various curves.

Since it was a weekday, the beach was pretty isolated, which allowed us to settle our belongings and quickly rush into the water !!! Something that is noteworthy, is that it gets dark pretty early in Port of Spain. At around 5:30-6pm it starts getting dark, so we were eager to start heading back before dark, which only gave us about an hour to enjoy the beach.

We could not leave the beach without trying the famous Shark and Bake - which is said to be the typical plate to eat at the beach, and everyone we spoke to in Port of Spain insisted we have shark and bake at a place called "Richards" - which was not hard to find as it was the first food place you see when you enter Maraca's beach.