WINE DINE & TRAVEL MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017
Wine Dine & Travel Magazine is loaded with summer fun. 198 pages of travel stories with destinations around the world. In this issue you'll find the first of our Discovery Series -- Discovering Slovenia explores the beautiful country from the Alps to the Adriatic Sea.
Wine Dine & Travel Magazine is loaded with summer fun. 198 pages of travel stories with destinations around the world. In this issue you'll find the first of our Discovery Series -- Discovering Slovenia explores the beautiful country from the Alps to the Adriatic Sea.
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given race names like Dragonfly and Spring Feet. On Easter<br />
Monday and Tuesday the goats, dressed in colored coats,<br />
race along a track, urged on by barefoot jockeys pulling long<br />
ropes. Crab races are also held, should the goats not provide<br />
sufficient amusement.<br />
I did manage<br />
to snag several<br />
beach hours<br />
at Tobago’s<br />
lovely Pigeon<br />
Point, where<br />
activities<br />
included paddle<br />
boarding,<br />
kayaking, kite<br />
boarding and<br />
my personal<br />
favorite—<br />
lounging on the<br />
beach with<br />
chatty locals. I<br />
was eager to<br />
get out in the<br />
wilderness<br />
after hearing the<br />
islands’ offered primo prime bird watching along with sightings<br />
of howler monkeys and nesting sea turtles. But my one<br />
long hike on lacked any sort of wildlife as a storm brewed in<br />
the distance. Seems all creatures save my guide and I were<br />
smart enough to take cover.<br />
at races are legendary.<br />
ing in the ocean...”<br />
The best natural encounter by far took place during an evening<br />
boat ride in Trinidad’s Caroni Swamp and Bird Sanctuary.<br />
We floated through spooky dark canals vaguely reminiscent<br />
of the Amazon, ducking under mangrove branches and<br />
watching white egrets and blue herons gracefully skim the<br />
silvery water. As 4 p.m. approached, we stopped far offshore a<br />
small island for the daily arrival of hundreds of scarlet ibis, the<br />
national bird. Sure enough, we began to spot a few red dots<br />
on the horizon, then more and more as the graceful birds flew<br />
in formation and roosted in the island’s mangroves as the setting<br />
sun glowed over the treetops. The only thing missing was<br />
the beat of a steelpan band in the background for the perfect<br />
ending to a Trinbagonian adventure.<br />
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