Secluded and Filled with Beauty!
Today we head to the south western tip of the island of Trinidad in search of Columbus Bay! This is where Christopher Columbus first landed on the prominent Caribbean island on July 31st, 1498 and hence it was named after him. There is contention currently with this name in our country given the revisionist historical perspective that the indigenous cultures already living here were wronged and whitewashed. The bay is famous for three large islets that can only be found here called the Three Sisters! Today we check out the beautiful scenes at the beach on a beautiful day as well as fly up close to the three sisters!
The drive here was long and arduous through winding roads and passing remote villages here and there. It took us around 3 hours to reach our destination. The rain had just been falling and the skies were beginning to clear up which we had been hoping for as the 3 hour trip might have been in vain! The beach was empty just the way we like it!
Here is a look at the countryside of the area. As you can see there are no towns for miles, not even a village! There are a lot of mangroves and coconut trees and just one solitary road that makes the trip here possible. Its just pure mostly unadulterated Trinidadian wilderness other than that and its a bit scary when you think about it!
The beach itself was so beautiful with that typical concave parabolic shape lines with coconut trees. The spectacular thing about this bay is that the water recedes in such an unorthodox way as you can see in the top right leaving large pools of water and patches of sand that is awesome to sit and enjoy the location at.
As you can see from the photo above the main thing about this beach is not the waters but the three islets you can see from the photo above on the top left. They seemed to be remnants of the coastline that was there before the coastal erosion went in so much. They look quite small from here but I assure you they are huge!
I sent up the drone as soon as we got there but I could not help but feel so small standing in such a large bay. It felt so expansive and stretched as far as the eyes could see. Then it occurred to me this was very well the largest bay I had ever had a pleasure of visiting on the island!
It was so long and huge there could never be over crowding as you may see in some places. Flying higher, I got an even better view of the expanse of the concave shape of the bay itself. The waters were extremely calm, something you see not a lot of on this side of the country. This was high tide as the water recedes much more during low tide.
Flying closer to the western end of the beach and closer to the cliff faces and the three sister islet, I got a better view of the vibrants sands and the nice colors of the water. I was so excited to fly and check out the things that were impossible before without hiring a boat!
The coastline on this side stretched for miles northwards with beautiful cliff faces formed from countless years of erosion. The color of the rock as well as being crusted with beautiful green grass trees was such a huge contrast to the others side of the beach which was just coconut trees. I quite liked this side more.
The shapes of the inlets and small caves that the relentless sea had carved out on the elevated land was so breathtaking to say the least. I needed to go closer but at the same time I wanted to document it on a larger wide angled scale fist.
While doing so, there was this particular part of the eroded coast, large wave carved rock that caught my eye as it looked like a huge whale with a tail! It was just a bit of fun but I really found it quite interesting and so I flew closer.
It looked like any sort of fish with a large body and a tail and I just loved it! It looked like one could make it there on foot from the main beach through some thick bushes. There also seemed to be a small cave formed at the tail as well! It was so cool!
The intricacies and texture of the rock as well as the shape of the cave and the ocean waves flowing through it was all together so awesome to me. Even the grass atop the rock was just so beautiful and vibrant! The color of the water here too was nice, something you could not see from ground level.
I could not get enough of the rocks as in Trinidad, we had never seen anything like it at all in terms of the texture, the colors and the shapes. Everyone on my social media platforms were at times in awe that this was not from another country!
Finally I got to the three sisters after flying outwards from the point where I was in the previous photo. I tried my best to get this angle here above with all three islets in the shot as well as the coastline as it stretched for countless miles northwards! This was by far my favorite photo of the whole flight! This one above is the furthermost of the three.
This is the middle of the three sisters and was quite peculiar as it had a really flat but slanted top that birds were nesting and feeding upon. It was quite fun to see such a cool small microcosm of animals and plants on its own!
I really liked this close up shot of it. This is a view that is quite unseen as no one can see this from the shore or from a boat! I was quite glad and felt so lucky to be able to capture this!
This one above is the last of the three sisters and the one that is closest to the shoreline as you can see. It is the smallest of the bunch as well as the shortest yet still just as breathtaking in terms of beauty and intricacy.
Columbus beach may soon be renamed to something else in our country due to the aforementioned revisionist historical perspective but the beauty of the coastline and the three sisters will still remain for a very long time! I was quite lucky to be of the few and the first to capture such up close shots with ease. Thanks so much for coming along, Cheers!