Three Pools

Located in Trinidad's northern seaside village of Blanchisseuse (the french translation for "Ladies River"), the area known as Three Pools is a popular mini hiking destination. With its beginnings at the Blanchisseuse's Spring Bridge, one mile away, this trek's duration is 40 to 50 minutes long. This natural landscape is made up of three consecutive plunge pools, in which one flows into the next. Hence the name, Three Pools. 

On route to Three Pools

Along the winding wet and muddy trail there is lush forestry with mossy cacao and citrus trees. Upon reaching the first pool, not so experienced swimmers can enjoy in the shallower waters and the relaxing atmosphere by the natural poolside, emanating from the Marianne River, which plunges from a broad plateau over a steep escarpment to the create three basins. Who wouldn't enjoy a relaxing afternoon by nature's poolside?

Expert divers and swimmers can experience the natural water-slide formation that sits between the first and second pools and indulge in the approximate fifteen to twenty-feet adventurous jump off the rock formations above the third pool and test the cool waters. 

Adventurers, although making this plunge can be tremendous fun and excitement, please beware diving from the rocks at the top of the pool can be dangerous so ensure before you decide to jump that the pool is full enough, as the effects of some dry seasons can decrease water levels considerately.

On reaching the first pool

Other close recreational spots include the Avocat Falls situated further upstream from Three Pools and the Maracas Falls which is a half hour drive, west from Blanchisseuse. 

Geography update: A plunge pool or plunge basin is an depression formed at the base of a waterfall by the force of erosion of the falling water and rocks (Marshak, 2009).

Reference: 

Marshak, S. 2009, Essentials of Geology, W.W. Norton & Company, 3rd ed.

Source: The author