Sailing Saoirse - Hiking in Trinidad and drifting boats 💚🌳🦎

In this weeks episode we get to explore the Covigne River Gorge. Fabio a fellow yacht owner at the marina who has lived here for the last 10 years took us on a BEAUTIFUL hike. We had no clue what to expect when he took us out for the day but he did not disappoint. The Covigne River Gorge is just a 10 minute drive from Peakes Yacht Services and sits in the Tucker Valley in Chaguaramas. Our hike took us through the remnants of a cocoa and nutmeg Plantation once known as the Macqueripe Estate. We saw Nutmeg and Cocoa still growing along the trail and even managed to find a nutmeg with its mace casing still on. We then headed through a small gorge that is about thirty feet tall rock walls, carved out of the mountain rock by a branch of the Cuesa River. We saw many Emperor butterflies who seemed to evade video and photos, they were HUGE and bright blue. We haven't been able to get out and explore as much as we have wanted to while being in Trinidad so being able to experience this hike was just incredible and exactly what we needed to recharge our adventure batteries. We also had a yacht on anchor that is seemingly abandoned or forgotten about almost hit Saoirse in the anchorage. Luckily it started dragging in the day time otherwise we probably wouldn't have seen it coming towards us. Colben and Denver helped Simon (one of the mooring ball owners) to tow it to one of his mooring balls and make sure it wasn't a danger to anyone else in the anchorage.