26 San Fernando Trinidad's second city is the focus of the oil industry. This is a convenient base for the Pitch Lake and Wild Fowl Trust. Overlooking the town is the much-quarried San Fernando Hill, thought to have been sacred to the original Amerindian settlers. Pitch Lake A dark mass of imperceptibly churning natural asphalt near the town of La Brea. It doesn t look like much at first glance.
Objects vanish and reappear years later as the pitch slowly swirls.
The source is a fault line in the sandstone 250 feet down, through which crude oil or bitumen seeps, providing an endlessly replenished pool of bitumen for roads and mastic asphalt roofs. There is a small museum. Bookings 648 7697. Palmiste National Park Recently launched and still in the early stages of development, the park covers 40 acres of land on the edge of San Fernando. During the year work is expected to proceed on a jogging track, picnic areas, eco trails, recreation areas and an arboretum.