Treasure Island

From my diary.

Always a great cause for celebrating when we children heard the words  "We are going down the islands" or in proper Trinidadian "Down de Islands".

The start of a week of fun, swimming, snorkeling, waterskiing, fishing and spending a week with our relaxed parents.

My diary is not accurate about the number of islands, in fact, five - but back then for all intents and purposes, only the three were of any interest to us! Although as children, one island Chacachacare was to be kept clear of, as it held the Leper colony and always sounded so frightening.

Map pin set on the Trinidad & Tobago Coastguard pier where the boats were loaded and fueled for the adventure and where the ever so valuable egg got broken. There were no shops around to buy food.

There were no boat marinas back in those days and most of this tip of Trinidad was a controlled US military base, one of the many British "assets" sold/traded by the British in 1940 to the Americans in exchange for 50 destroyers. The USA was at that time "neutral" and this deal was a violation of that position.