- - Wednesday, December 26, 1984 - North Shore News

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by
Bob Hunter

Keeping up
with Crusoe

ORE D WITH HAWATIO Try something dit-

ferent. |] give vou

Especially Pobapgo.

Known as the Robinson
Crusoe island > on ties 70
miles from. Prinidad. within
view iWoveou squint at the
horizon of Cirenada oN
mere 116 square miles.
Tobdapo is also known as the
“Jewel of the Caribbean.”
and, not surprisingly, was
fought over so bitterly that 1
changed hands 31 times an
less than two centuries

Among the colomal con
tenders, aside trom the usual
paggle of British, French,
Spanish and Dutch, there was
one minor imperial power
not Slated for greatness the
Courlanders, who were
themselves overwhelmed by
evarist Russia, leaving as
their only overseas claim to
tame the tact that thes once
ruled beautitul Tobago

At one point in the long
tug-of-war over the astand
between the buropeans, 1
was declared neutral ter
nitory Pirates promptly used
as a sanctuary, forcing the
Britush Navy to seize the
place vet again

In case you were wonder
ing, yes, the name stems from
the Arrawak Indian word for
tobacco The Arrawaks are
extingt, worked to death as
slaves by the Spanish The
weed lingers on the Ar
fuwak s revenge’

Since 1X99 Tobago has
been da protectorate oot
Tronidad Phere are plenty oft
Tobaponians ¢l kept wanting

Trinidad and Tobago

down there quick. |osay 0 At
present, building  construy
tron ois timiited ta three
STOrEN Ss, Precisely fo avotd thie
Hawanan disease of high fise
condominiums The result is
that ibis easy to tind beaches
that are so deserted vou are
reminded of Robinson
Crusoe’s shock when he spot
ted a footprint in the sand

‘“*The result 1s that
it is easy to find
beaches that are
deserted.’

The pro-development peo
ple point out that there are
more Tobaponians inf
Trinidad than Tobdgo
(60,000 compared to 40,000)
simply because they have to
go to the bigger island to tind
work Why leave all those
fabulous beaches to the
egrets and pelicans and sand
pipers and the odd passing
Canuck?

So naturally the Crown
Port airport ois) berg ook
panded and a drive is on to
boost tourmm Cdn t say |
blame the local folk but asf
sav po there before i begins
to dook The Outi

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