The View

One thing my apartment really has is a great view of Port of Spain. Here we'll look at some pictures from either the balcony or from one of the windows. These shots will be daytime shots. The next post will be night-time shots.

In this shot you see the city itself as viewed from the 15th floor. Toward the right edge is the office. Moving toward the left is the harbor and on the far left is some industrial area. Port of Spain really has no beach; it's a Port city. When the locals want to go to the beach they head to the far side of the island to some really nice beaches.

Continuing around we see downtown. I know its not a great view but I've included this for a sense of scale. The population of Trinidad and Tobago is about 1.3 million and of them only about 250,000 or some and most of them live in the suburbs. About half the country's population lives in the northwest quarter of Trinidad. So it isn't a very big downtown. The taller buildings are a couple of hotels and the finance center.

Continuing to the left you can see another of the three towers in One Woodbrook Place. The largish structure in the lower left is billed as the largest movie screen in the Caribbean, the Digical Imax theater which if I wanted to I could easily hit throwing rocks at it. This Imax mostly shows 3D Hollywood stuff. They just closed out Titanic and opened Avengers. In the distance you can see some of the mountains. Just before that, the large grassy area is a Cricket Stadium. With a pair of binoculars and something to fortify my will to live, I could sit on my balcony and watch cricket matches. One friend here described cricket as being "gouge your eyeballs out boring." Even in highlight form, it is pretty grim.

Skipping to the other side of Tower One, you can see a glimpse of St James, as in the St James Infirmary, and the mountains. If you look carefully you can see roads and house going up the side of the mountain. Granted, these are not snow capped, Rocky Mountain mountains, but to someone who normally lives in flat flat Houston, these qualify as mountains. The entire northern side of the country is mountains like this and the beach is beyond.

Next post will have views from my balcony taken at night.