Things I didn't mention :) that I thought I had posted but I jsut saved the post last week by accident

Trinidad has been really interesting so far, the culture is completely different but their material levels are the same.
Economically speaking people live close to how we do (in other words they have way too much stuff too, big screen tvs, etc.) with some having more and many less.
However, culturally or developedly speaking their human rights and animal rights and so forth, are not the same as us.
People with disabilties in paticular are not treated with any respect, it is really interesting for me to come into that context given my work with Inclusive Fitness and people with dsiabilties over the last couple of years.

we visited mud volcanoes The place is called The Devils Wood Yar, it is young volcanoes (respectively speaking) that erupted big time in 1852, but before that just grumbled under neath the earth, they now bubble, as you can see in my pictures on facebook, and its not hot, its acutally really cold, but the bubbles orginate in the boiling lava way below. The Amerindians thought that the Devil had come out of the ground and fell the woods in the first major eruption and thats why its called devils wood yard, because when it erupted it knocked a forest down.

We watched a Ramlila celebration
the Ramlela festival which  is a dramatic folk re-enactment of the life of Lord Ram, ending up in ten day battle between Lord Ram and Ravan, as described in the Hindu religious epic, the Ramayana. A tradition that originates from the Indian subcontinent, the play is staged annually often over ten or more successive nights, during the auspicious period of 'Sharad Navratras', which marks the commencement of the Autumn festive period, starting with the Dussehra festival. Usually the performances are timed to culminate on the festival of Vijayadashami day, that commemorates the victory of Lord Ram over demon king Ravana, when the actors are taken out in a procession through the city, leading up to a mela ground or town square, where the enactment of the final battle takes place, before giant effigies of Ravana. Ravana was evil and banished Lord Ram from the city, because Lord Ram wanted to date Ravanan's daughter. Then they have this giant battle and the people acted it out, but Ravana has powers and everytime he is killed he will reappear endlessly, unless he is struck with fire in the bellybuttton, so at the end of the reenactment a guy shoots a flaming arrow into the bellybutton of a big statue of evil Ravana and he is burnt to the ground.
Thanks Wikipedia haha

We also went to a place called Wild Fowl Trust,

its built inside a petrol indusitriaul refinery grounds. Its giganctic and features two lakes and 18 bird species including 4 endangered species of duck and peacocks, etc.
They try to maintain the balance of life, so they have snakes to eat the rodents and sutff, this is me holding a boa constrictor, we're friends, he was pretty cool!
Whats could about Fowl Trust is that one of the higher ups from Canada in the Petrol company, which I belive i shell, built the reserve, and most of the funds were donated by teh Canadian friends of the environment fund. There is a little museum and 6 hiking trails, we only did one of them.
We say gigantic fish, black tilapia fish, cadans (mini crocodiles), turtles, a bird that walks on lilpads called Jesus Christ Bird, I saw one humming bird, a snake bird which catches fish deep in the water, and then brings them to the surface and smacks 'em around till he eats them in one gulp, he has a long neck and cause he eats in one gulp hes called snake bird.
It was cool to see work being done on the environment here because as of yet it has been heart breaking to see the amount of waste unneccesairly produced here.
Lots of styrofoam is used, and stuff like that. And even when reusable materials are used, they aren't recycled.
no compost to speak of :(