Hey Hey,
As another holiday past,
familiar traditions are kept or new ones are eventually made. Luckily for me I
happened to kept tradition on our 38th celebrations as a Republic.
Unfortunately I only kept up part of my ‘occasional
tradition’ on this Republic Day.
As we may
know it, one of children and adults favourite past time is, going to the lovely waters
of T&T on public holidays weekends or any chance they get.
So that’s what I did, hit the lovely waters of
Maracus Beach along our North Coast road. Sun, sea and sand, oh and how could I forget,
Fun. Fun Fun Fun! The screams of fear as a child not wanting to go into the
raging waters while on the other hand after the addiction; the screams of
horror as a child while you were being dragged out of the soothing waters. Yip,
definitely indecisiveness while discovering nature growing up, despite all of
the crazy “halabalu” one thing I always enjoyed was, the picking up/discovering
unusual stuff on the beach or things I didn't collect before.
To think, I still do it as an adult, what could I
say, old habits die hard!
It was a lovely bad habit of mines, but it wasn’t on
Maracus beach though. What I can recall was Carenage beach right in front the
TTHI as we would hustle to be on time to catch the blue and gray bus. Another
beach was Elephant Wall in Guayaguayare, where on the few occasions that I
visited there my toenail would get slit while in the water. For whatever reason,
it would only happen to me, and sadly, I must say, that I don’t have any souvenirs
of the dead crab because I never caught it/them. Hopefully somebody got him
because all I could have caught was the chip chip that just laid there.
What’s in your childhood memory collection?
