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Speyside is a small fishing village in the east part of Tobago. It's located between the edge of the Main Ridge Rainforest and the Atlantic Ocean. Surrounded by some steep hills up to 700 feet high, the Tyrrel Bay and the the small islands Lttle Tobago and Goat Island you have always a pictouresque view.

Most of the 700+ citizens make their living with fishing, as tour guides, divemasters or other tourism related jobs. People here are always friendly and very obliging.

This website wants to attract you to visit our beautiful village. We want to help you to find your place of accommodation, which restaurants serve breakfast, lunch, dinner or snacks.
If you are a birdwatcher click on the tours link for a list of certified tour guides.
If you are a diver this will be the heaven for you. Here are a lot of dive stations with highly trained divemasters which will show you the best diving spots.
Make a Glass Bottom Boat Tour to Little Tobago or make a stroll through the village to see people and places. For relaxing, sunbathing and swimming we show you the best beaches.
Taxi drivers, car rentals, small grocerie shops and a lot more are in the section This and That.
Play a little with the Interactive Map and enjoy the functions.
Last but not least visit the link About Us to learn more about the people behind this website.


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Though Speyside is slowly adjusting to its latest role as a scuba-diving destination, it still retains its fishing village atmosphere and small-town attitude. The main strip consists of several dive shops, a smattering of restaurants, including the well-known Jemma's, and a few hotels and guesthouses.

As you descend into the village, to the right is a cluster of candy floss-coloured grocery shops and snack bars surround a large playing field – the venue for local football matches. A road running between the playing field and the sea takes you to the beach facilities, basic changing rooms and toilets (daylight hours; TT$1).

The swath of sand here is slightly wider than in the central part of the bay. Generally pristine with little sign of bleaching or human damage, the famous reefs boast one of the world's largest brain corals, a tremendous four metres high and six metres across. Apart from the regular shoals of small fish – butterfly, grunt, angel, parrot and damsel – the currents also attract a number of deep-water dwellers, including nurse sharks, dolphins and, most notably, manta rays. For those who wish to see more than small fish and limited portions of reef, scuba diving is excellent in this area. The most popular Speyside dive sites include Kelleston Drain (site of the brain coral), Japanese Gardens, Angel Reef, Flying Manta and Blackjack Hole, and most dives are of the drift variety.

Explore the village with a little help from this website, but be aware: in reality Speyside has to offer more. The pictures you see here cannot compare with the view of your own eyes when you visit the village.