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Today was Emancipation day in Trinidad and so everyone had the day off from the hospital. We Had planned a boat trip with the same two people who took us surfing the other day. We managed to pursuade a maxi driver to go off his route and take us all the way to chaguramas which is about half an hour away for a pound a person. They must think we are crazy here as they are not meant to go off their designated route. We arrived at the powerboat yard and had some lunch when finally Colin and Acol arrived with their boat only to tell us after another half an hour that they had to go an unload the boat from the mornings fishing catch. Eventuially we got on and they took us very fast past the prison which is on an island away from the mainland. It holds the most dangerous prisoners so that they cannot escape. We then went on to look at a few of the other island before stopping at a very random island party. We stayed there and had a couple of drinks before a few of us demanded that they take us on the boat trip that we were paying for. I think they thought we would pay them to sit at someone house and drink (They obviously dont know me very well!) I am so glad we made them take us around the island as they had promised because we ran into a school of dolphins which was so amazing to see. They were swimming all around the boat and jumping up so close to the side we could nearly touch them. The was a baby olphin with the group and we thik it was trying to show off as it did the most spectacular flip in the air! After the dolphins we carried on out away from trinidad an in the distance which you will see when we upload the pictures was the mountains of venezuela. We suddenly saw a fin come up and swimm round the boat which really scared us but it turned out to just be a mantaray shark so nothing to really worry about. We also caught a huge tuna and really ished we had our own kitchen so we could cook it up. The sun began to set around us and we had to head back to lan but all in all it was a really good trip and for only ten pound a head not bad (well they ripped us off slightly but we will get over it!)
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