Over the East­er hol­i­days scores of cit­i­zens as well as vis­i­tors to this is­land took time to en­joy the ad­ven­tures of the Ca­roni Swamp and Bird Sanc­tu­ary

The 12,000-acre Ca­roni Swamp is lo­cat­ed on Trinidad’s west coast. It is one of the largest man­grove for­est on the is­land. The swamp is pro­tect­ed un­der the Ram­sar Con­ven­tion as a wet­land of in­ter­na­tion­al im­por­tance. The Ca­roni Swamp runs along the banks of the Ca­roni Riv­er and con­tains nu­mer­ous chan­nels, brack­ish, and saline la­goons with in­ter­tidal mud­flats. The Ca­roni Swamp al­so con­tains fresh wa­ter and salt­wa­ter marsh­es and is al­so known as a bird sanc­tu­ary.

The Ca­roni Swamp is al­so home to dif­fer­ent types of wildlife. These in­clude the Cook’s Tree Boa, Silky Anteater, Oys­ters, crabs, and sev­er­al species of birds.

The cen­tral sec­tion of the acreage is des­ig­nat­ed as a wildlife sanc­tu­ary and is the home of the Scar­let Ibis, one of this coun­try’s Na­tion­al Birds.

Guardian’s pho­tog­ra­ph­er AN­DRE ALEXAN­DER joined the ad­ven­ture and cap­tured the beau­ty of the swamp.