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Sam and I spent the morning just chilling in the hotel trying to get a bit of rest after the busy fews days we had just had. We met up with the others after they finished at the hospital and grabbed some doubles for lunch (two flour pattys with chickpea curry an pepper sauce inside) Sam tried them for the first time and cried even though she didnt have the pepper sauce it was so funny! We set off to try and find a maxi to take us down to maracas beach. After being directed in the wrong direction quite a few times we finally crammed into a maxi and took an hour journey through the hills of trinidad down to the beautiful beach of maracas. I'm not quite sure what I expected but this was certainly more stunning then I imagined it could be. The water was clear green (Sam still wants to see clear blue she will have to wait until we go to tobago) with palm trees on the beach and the background to all this was the rainforest mountains which were just beautiful. It is really hard to explain how everything looks especially when the photos just don't quite capture it. The waves were huge but not nearly as rough as the previous day and so we all became masters at body surfing and sam and I even mastered the art of being flipped over by the really big waves. The rest of the day was pretty uneventful apartr from passing a maxi driver with a beer in his hand and a whole empty crate beside him! We are definately having to be far more careful of who we are getting lifts from in the future but we are learning!
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