Wow Wow Wow….these are the only words that I can find for my first impression coming into the Tobago Keys. We have landed in Paradise. The colors around me change every minute I blink with my eyes; amazing! We are so lucky and fortunate with the weather it could not be any better. The experience to sail down to the Tobago Keys is branded into our memory stick forever. The sighting of those tiny little islands is very exciting and I feel like a child in a candy shop…who would like to leave this place ever? In our guide books it says that “the Tobago Keys are a group of small deserted island, protected from the sea by a Horseshoe Reef. The water and reef colors are a kaleidoscope of gold, brown, blue, turquoise and green. There are small sand beaches everywhere and the water is very clear. On cloudless nights, the stars are cast across the sky like wedding confetti thrown in an excessive gesture of bonhom
ie. Even squalls can be dramatically beautiful as they approach from afar.” We anchored in front of Petit Bateau, which is as picturesque as it can be….blue water and white sandy beaches are lined with beautiful coconut trees. It is simply beautiful and comes probably very close to being in paradise. That same afternoon we do explore the little island by foot. It takes approx. 15 minutes to cross the island. Turtles and big crabs are crossing our path and the whole atmosphere is mesmerizing and the energy around us is just beautiful. We meet some guys from Argentina and Ireland that enjoy a BBQ on the beach and sing along to their guitar. I probably do not need to go into any further details here and you can just close your eyes and let your imagination run wild! The next day after breakfast we pile into our Dinghy equipped with our snorkeling gear and go over to a little Island called Baradel, here we are going to swim with turtles in their own environment; the ocean. Part of the bay of this little Isl
and is fenced off to protect the turtles from passing by dinghy’s and sailing yachts. What an adventure for all of us, swimming and diving with the turtles. Julia is amongst her own species, and she swims along the Turtles like that is what she is born to do. Her movements under water are just incredible and she behaves like a fish. We observe turtles all morning how they swim, eat and rest on the ocean ground. What a wonderful experience, apart from a little lost reef shark, a Barracuda and a few normal little fish there are not many other fish to observe, but the turtles are making up for it. I even manage to go fo
r a little walk on this little Island and come across a few humongous Iguanas. Emina, David and Sven are driving over to Petit Tabac; on this isolated beach with wild its tropical garden they filmed the island scene in “Pirate of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. Unfortunately we do have to leave this little paradise in the afternoon to make our way to Union Island, our guests are going to fly back home from here.
Wow Wow Wow….these are the only words that I can find for my first impression coming into the Tobago Keys. We have landed in Paradise. The colors around me change every minute I blink with my eyes; amazing! We are so lucky and fortunate with the weather it could not be any better. The experience to sail down to the Tobago Keys is branded into our memory stick forever. The sighting of those tiny little islands is very exciting and I feel like a child in a candy shop…who would like to leave this place ever? In our guide books it says that “the Tobago Keys are a group of small deserted island, protected from the sea by a Horseshoe Reef. The water and reef colors are a kaleidoscope of gold, brown, blue, turquoise and green. There are small sand beaches everywhere and the water is very clear. On cloudless nights, the stars are cast across the sky like wedding confetti thrown in an excessive gesture of bonhom
ie. Even squalls can be dramatically beautiful as they approach from afar.” We anchored in front of Petit Bateau, which is as picturesque as it can be….blue water and white sandy beaches are lined with beautiful coconut trees. It is simply beautiful and comes probably very close to being in paradise. That same afternoon we do explore the little island by foot. It takes approx. 15 minutes to cross the island. Turtles and big crabs are crossing our path and the whole atmosphere is mesmerizing and the energy around us is just beautiful. We meet some guys from Argentina and Ireland that enjoy a BBQ on the beach and sing along to their guitar. I probably do not need to go into any further details here and you can just close your eyes and let your imagination run wild! The next day after breakfast we pile into our Dinghy equipped with our snorkeling gear and go over to a little Island called Baradel, here we are going to swim with turtles in their own environment; the ocean. Part of the bay of this little Isl
and is fenced off to protect the turtles from passing by dinghy’s and sailing yachts. What an adventure for all of us, swimming and diving with the turtles. Julia is amongst her own species, and she swims along the Turtles like that is what she is born to do. Her movements under water are just incredible and she behaves like a fish. We observe turtles all morning how they swim, eat and rest on the ocean ground. What a wonderful experience, apart from a little lost reef shark, a Barracuda and a few normal little fish there are not many other fish to observe, but the turtles are making up for it. I even manage to go fo
r a little walk on this little Island and come across a few humongous Iguanas. Emina, David and Sven are driving over to Petit Tabac; on this isolated beach with wild its tropical garden they filmed the island scene in “Pirate of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. Unfortunately we do have to leave this little paradise in the afternoon to make our way to Union Island, our guests are going to fly back home from here.
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