I have recently returned from holiday in Trinidad and Tobago where I managed to get in 2 days of diving. The sites visited were Coral Garden and The Cathedral, both reefs off Little Tobago island (Atlantic Ocean), and Mt. Irvine Extension and Mt. Irvine Wall, both off the south west (Caribbean) side of Tobago. As well as the coral, sea fans and other sedentary reef life we came across parrot and angel fish, stingray, turtle, moray eel, giraffe sand eel, boxfish and trumpet fish but disappointingly no sharks!

One trip back from the dive site was accompanied by a tropical downpour; I was the only one smiling as I had my 5mm full wetsuit on. The deckhand disappeared below decks and didn’t appear again until we tied up alongside the jetty.