This was our Carnival Tuesday headquarters......shade, food and drink, friend's house with a lav', great people liming around, on a main route for the bands, close to Hart's resting place, and close to Yvonne and Dave Millar's home where we always meet nice people and have a good laugh. Note Heather Boyce in her wheelchair.....so many people stopped to thank her for making the effort.....she got us in to and out of a few tight spots.

Its all in the name I guess....D' Wee Wee truck......take a guess.

You got it.......a Wee Wee truck full of chemical toilets for the players in Harts....great idea and loved by the players. Sponsored by Carib Beer no less. Harts also pioneered the single DJ concept....great stuff......it is really bad when you get between two trucks each playing a different tune at different speeds....one leg chippin' fast and the other jammin' a slow soca.....no more of that in Harts and now D' Wee Wee truck.....congrats Harts....great innovations.

It's just about impossible to explain the audio power that these music truck have....when you are dragging back on either of the two days you are glad of the sound....helps to keep you going. To get a feel for the power look right behind the cab at the white with a blue stripe, sound attenuated power generator....that is a big machine!!!!! Bet your life running fully loaded when the music is flowing.......maaan! takes more power than my home with the air on, water pump running, all lights on, washing and drying....yup the whole thing.

Here the inlet side of the Savannah (Jerningham Ave./Memorial Square side) is just beginning to fill up Monday. Costumed people going in all directions looking for their band........everyone helping the other with advice as to where they can find their band........wonderful network....people really seem to know where each band is once the band is heading for the stage. Not visible in this pic, but behind the monster music truck with the red cab was a broken down J'ouvert truck, still belting out sounds for the few mud covered and bedraggled supporters jumping up around it.

The tide is in.......Harts players swamp the approaches to the stage where just a few minutes before there was a calm air of expectation .....no apologies just a lot of dancing and prancing. Rags in the air to "Give me a bligh".

A common sight on both days is young people up on walls strutting their stuff and "wining dong de dam place".....these happy nut-cases outdid themselves for sure.....what a time!!! In the 2000 Carnival series I got the red jerseys of the security detail and the green of our medics....I missed the orange of the cart pushers and tenderers...."maaaan! you just don't try to put yuh han' in one of dem carts widout a rist ban'".....dey go break it.

As much as I don't like his pomposity and regard him as Trinidad's number one cultural con-man, Peter Minshall's band Picoplat, made an absolutely breathing sight coming down Cipriani Boulevard on Tuesday......what fantastic use of colour and materials. Sorry I didn't have a better lens.