Cedros Beach can be found way deep in the south parts of Trinidad away from most towns and cities. Cedros is a small and sleepy little town home to a lot of fisherfolk. People hardly go there for recreation and more for the hobby or livelihood of fishing. The bay is quite huge and stretches for miles for as far as the eyes can see on both sides. Today we head down to the southern part of Trinidad to explore what we could find.
South Trinidad is an area of the country hardly visited but there are so many hidden gems, something you may have noticed if you have been following along with my blogs! There is an area of that you get to that you know for sure you have arrived at the lower area of the country called the Creek. It is home to some of the best chicken rotis and doubles, Trinidad's national breakfast food.
One of the quintessential landmarks are the Godineaux bridge as well as the Godineaux River. Once you've past here, that means you are definitely in DEEP southern Trinidad. Before we were just in south, but now its deep south. Despite it being remote, this area of the country is quickly becoming quite developed.
Here is a much more upstream view of the river and the mangroves that lines its banks as well as deep forest that also stretches for miles. I would hate to get lost in there, there would be no towns or houses for great distances! I would actually like to go kayaking on this river sometime as people love to do at times.
After an hour or two of driving amidst winding and rough pot hole ridden roads, we finally got to the little town of Cedros. The surrounding area around the coastline and beach itself is mostly residential homes with large parcels of land as you would expect in remote areas. It would be so awesome to have such huge yards as you would see in the phot above.
The beach itself was not quite developed with shaded glavanized umbrella benches to have a great time with your family and friends. There were no beach facilities for changing or restrooms as it is not quite as visited. There were also no one present at all and the beach was quite empty! We did not even see any fishermen around neither any with their boats!
This is what the right side of the beach looks like with a coastline that stretches for miles and what looked like eroded cliff faces which I would definitely love to check out in a little bit! The water had a few hues, with a vibrant green but also a prominent brown dirty color from mud and silt as it had just been raining.
You can get a better idea of the colors here and how much silt and mud were in the waves at the time that were not very rough at all but quite calm. There seemed to be even more mud around the eroded cliff faces which made a lot of sense when you think about it!
Here is a nicer wider angled view of the eroded cliff faces that were intricately covered with greenery such as trees and grass. The coastal features were so interesting for its intricate patterns and shapes that it formed over the years of being slowly eaten away by rain and the relentless waves.
I flew a little closer with the drone to get some more details of the formations and was not at all disappointed. There was also a lot of scree or talus in at the base of the cliff faces that formed little landings on the outer fringe of the coastline for as far down as the eyes could see!
This what the right side of the coastline looked like with the small town of Cedros in site! You can see the sand stretches for so long and the town itself is slowly becoming developed and more diversified from just fishing and other ocean oriented income means. On this side the waters were much less dirty and the emerald green hues came out much more vibrantly!
A little way along the beach, as I was flying, I saw a fishing facillity with boats, also called pirogues where it seemed that repairs and repainting was done. I just wanted to document this as this is what cedros is most known for and fishing in our country is a huge thing for both the old, young the rich as well as the poor!
As I was flying around some more, the police actually showed up while we were there and informed me that I was not allowed to fly in that area! I was not sure why and I did not at all bother to ask as we did not want to incur any trouble at all. I managed to catch them on photo as they were driving off leaving the beach compound and I swiftly landed the drone!
Apart from being told it was not possible to fly in the area due to regulations and no fly zones and what not, I did managed to capture a lot of detail and document some awesome features of the beach before we were told to land the drone. Maybe there was something people did not want us to see that can only be seen from an aerial view? Who knows? Thanks a lot for coming along anyways, Cheers!
