Activities
Fishing in Castara Bay
Activities can keep you as busy as you want to be.
Boating, scuba diving, snorkeling, kayaking, windsurfing, bird-watching, fishing, hiking, tennis, golf, horseback riding, swimming, and relaxing on the beach are just a few ways to spend your days. Deep sea fishing trips are also available for the more serious fishermen/women.
Fishing and Boat-Trips
Don't expect jet skis or water skiing in Castara - this is a fishing village. You can go on boat trips to fish, sightsee, or barbeque on isolated beaches ... leave at dawn and come back with the setting sun. You can snorkel on the many reefs, see pelicans nesting on the off - shore rocks, catch a fish for lunch, and land on an idyllic out-of -the-way beach for a barbeque and swim with manta - rays. If you're lucky you could even see dolphins!
Snorkeling and Scuba Diving
There's fine snorkeling on the beach at your doorstep - a coral reef lies within 100 meters of the shore.
Scuba divers come to Tobago to get some high voltage drift dives at the East End near Speyside. The Orinoco River pours rich nutrients into Tobago's waters creating an underwater landscape that's healthy and vibrant with plankton. Spectacular fish, such as the giant manta ray, cruise the waters feasting on this smorgasbord. Depending on the season, visibility can vary from 30 feet to 100 feet, with algae in the water. Manta rays are around several months of the year.
Partaluvier
Touring
Rent a car and do some sightseeing around the 26-mile long island over bumpy roads, which wind past palm groves, tiny hamlets and deserted beaches - a constant feast for the eyes!. Even the interior roads are only 15 minutes from glimpses of the sea. A route through the mountainous rainforest passes stands of towering, creaking bamboo and dense jungle growth before suddenly giving way to vistas of a sparkling palm-fringed beach, or open pastures grazed by cattle and scruffy goats. Any point on the island is reachable in a few hours' drive (at most), and well worth the winding narrow roads you'll encounter once leaving the more populated and developed West End, near Scarborough.
Englishman's Bay
Nature
Eco-tourists come to Tobago to see one of the oldest rainforests in the world, the stunning birdlife and the leatherback turtles which nest on the beaches around March. You can join an overnight camping tour and enjoy the thrill of seeing the baby turtles emerge from the sand, making a mad dash for the sea.
