Daily Life.

This "trek" starts just outside of Princes' Town in Iere Village. Historically, the area played host to a community of East Indian Indenture working on the sugar cane plantations. It traverses two different routes from Princes' Town to San Fernando. There's an opportunity to stop at the Usine Ste. Madeleine pond, opposite the old sugar factory, and photograph some of the birds along the banks. There are quite a few Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana), Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio), and the Neotropic Cormorant or Olivaceous Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) to name a few... Along the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway there are ample opportunities to catch a few shots of dozens of Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber) along the outer reaches of the Caroni Swamp. I have been fortunate enough to have been able to do this on a couple mornings... I have chosen to label this trail as a "Car Trail" but the reality is that quite a bit of it can be walked. The return legs from Iere Village to Princes' Town and Mt. Hope to St. Augustine make for an enjoyable early morning and mid evening stroll...
St. Augustine is a town in the north-west of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the site of one of the four campuses of the University of the West Indies. St. Augustine is home to thousands of university students and is now being converted to a university town as the economy of the area is fueled significantly by the spending power of the 60 000 plus university population. Many houses in the general university area have been converted to students' accommodation, but due to the lack of fee regulation, they are generally more than double the cost of university housing. Four of the five halls of residence provided by the University are located here, namely St. John's Hall, Milner Hall, Canada Hall, and Trinity Hall.
St. John's Road in St. Augustine is the main access road for Mount St. Benedict, one of the notable, historic sites in Trinidad and Tobago. On the Mount, you can find a Catholic Church along with a monastery and a factory where yogurt is made. On this road, there is also the St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church. The church is opposite to a Community Centre, which underwent renovations and now houses a new field for the residents to engage in football, one of the more popular sports of this area.
St. Augustine is also home to the Hugh Wooding Law School, a prestigious law school which attracts many inter-island students of the Caribbean and beyond. In close proximity to the law school is the University of the West Indies, Seismic Research Center, which is the official source of information on earthquakes and volcanoes in the English-speaking Caribbean.