Our first full day in Tobago. We hiked around the Inn, then took a ride in a glass-bottomed boat to Little Tobago Island (also called Bird of Paradise Island because Birds of Paradise had once lived there). In the evening, a few of us walked (up and) down to the ruins of the old sugar cane mill in Speyside.
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Yellow-bellied Elaenia
sitting on a nest in a palm tree
at Blue Waters Inn, Trinidad
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Yellow-bellied Elaenia
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Yellow-bellied Elaenia
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Yellow-bellied Elaenia
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Our group on the grounds of Blue Waters Inn
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The view from Blue Waters Inn
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Adult Brown Noddy
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Brown Noddys
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Brown Noddy
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Roseate Tern and Laughing Gull
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Laughing Gulls
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Brown-crested Flycatcher
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Southern House Wren
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Southern House Wren
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Southern House Wren
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Southern House Wren
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A view of the bay from the bluff above the Inn
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The view as we walk around the road above the Blue Waters Inn
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Scrub Greenlet
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Scrub Greenlet
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Scrub Greenlet
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Bananaquit nest
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Copper-rumped Hummingbird
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Mary on the dock at Blue Waters Inn
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Crab on the pier as we were waiting for boat to Little Tobago
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Crab on the pier
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Laughing Gulls, Roseate Terns and a Brown Noddy
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Roseate Terns, Laughing Gulls and Brown Noddy
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Roseate Tern
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Kannan relaxes on the dock while we wait for our boat
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Blue Waters Inn from the pier
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Waiting for the boat
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Loaded up and headed for Little Tobago
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Looking at the sea life through the glass bottom of the boat
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Mary and Steve
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On board the glass-bottomed boat
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Mary and Steve
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Looking back at Blue Waters Inn from the stern of our boat
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Brown Booby
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Magnificent Frigatebirds harassing Laughing Gull
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Magnificent Frigatebirds harassing Laughing Gull
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Brown Noddys
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Sooty Terns and Short-tailed Swift
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Sooty Terns
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Cacti and Brown Noddy on Little Tobago
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Brown Booby
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Sooty Terns
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Sooty Terns
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Brown Booby
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Sooty Terns
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Sooty Terns
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Sooty Terns
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Sooty Tern
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Sooty Tern with crab photo bomber
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Laughing Gulls, Roseate Terns and Brown Noddy
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Sooty Tern
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Sooty Terns
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Brown Noddy
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Engraved sign at dock on Little Tobago
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Signs at the dock on Little Tobago island
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Getting on shore at Little Tobago island
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Looking back toward Tobago from Little Tobago
with our boat waiting off shore
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Trinidad Motmot
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Odd plants
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Audubon's Shearwater nest hole in a bank along the path up to the crest
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Kannan looking into the Shearwater nest hole
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Immature Audubon's Shearwater in its nest hole
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Brown-crested Flycatcher
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Brown-crested Flycatcher
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Laughing Gull
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Laughing Gull chick on Little Tobago
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Bird watering trough on Little Tobago
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Water containers for bird watering trough
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Kannan on the trail near water trough and water containers
In the dry season, people bring water to the island to provide
drinking water for the birds
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Our group on the trail to the observation post
on Little Tobago island
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Mary on the trail on Little Tobago
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The view back toward Tobago from the midway point on the trail
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Our group on the deck of the former guest house midway on the trail on Little Tobago
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Steve and Mary on the deck of the guest house on the trail on Little Tobago island
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Mary
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Our group on the guest house deck
Little Tobago island
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Steve and Mary on Little Tobago
with Tobago across the water in the background
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Our group at the top of the trail on Little Tobago island
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The view to the right from the road
out of Blue Waters Inn
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Red-billed Tropicbird
soaring off Little Tobago island
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Roosting Red-footed Boobys
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Red-billed Tropicbird
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Magnificent Frigatebird
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Boobies roosting
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Shoreline of Little Tobago
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Brown Booby
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Scaly-naped Pigeon on cactus on Little Tobago
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Red-billed Tropicbirds
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Magnificent Frigatebird
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Magnificent Frigatebird
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Red-billed Tropicbird
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Red-billed Tropicbird
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Red-billed Tropicbird
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Crested Oropendola
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Brown Boobies
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Lizard
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Lizard
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Laughing Gull chick
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Laughing Gull chick
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Odd plant
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Old house on middle island
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Red flowers on tree on grounds at Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
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Bananaquit
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Pale-vented Pigeon
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Pale-vented Pigeon
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Pale-vented Pigeon
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Blue Waters Inn from the road above
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Rufous-vented Chachalaca
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Rufous-vented Chachalaca
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Bananaquit nest
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Scrub Greenlet
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Scrub Greenlet
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Scrub Greenlet
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Tobago shoreline near Blue Waters Inn
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Mary
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Southern Lapwing
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Southern Lapwing
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Tobago shoreline
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Islands off Tobago
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Kannan at sugar mill remains
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Lizard
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Pink flowers
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Blue Waters Inn sign
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Speyside sign
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Shiny Cowbirds
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Male Barred Antshrike
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Male Barred Antshrike
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Male Barred Antshrike
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Female Barred Antshrike
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Female Barred Antshrike
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Female Barred Antshrike
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Female Barred Antshrike
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Scrub Greenlet
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Kannan on a cannon
overlooking the bay at Blue Waters Inn