MarkUK:
You will be fine in Tobago.
Tobago is where I met this Englishman. Hi, Mark!
Add to what he said...
The South end is very accustomed to cruise ship divers, new divers
in search of training "dive schools" and day trippers. The Northern end is more catered to the dive-dive-dive crowd.
The South end will have piers, boats, easy boarding, easy dive boats, easy moored dives, and so on.
The North? Only one dive-op has a pier, the rest (which may be arguably better dive ops than the one with the pier) you have to wade out in what may be a mild surf. Better ones will carry your gear. The North is a carnival ride of currents, but not so much pretty fish and reefs (like the South). In the North you me have fleeting glimpses of the "
world's largets Brain Coral" and visit dive sites (among others) known as Washing Machine, Heart Attack and African Express (miss the exit for this drive, guess what your next stop might be?)
Yes, even a beginner can dive (some parts of) the North End, but remember, dive-ops are catering to who tradaitionaly comes to them. The North side dive ops get the more experienced divers, so either they're going to be somewhat disappointed or you may be quite challenged. For this reason, if you must dive the North End, I would steer you towards the only really larger dive-op, the one that resides at Blue Waters Inn. After they sort the week's groups out, they run seperate boats for different experience level divers, or sometimes they just put the better divers in the less accomodating boats, assuming that they know how to tough it out.
The South end is perfect for its array of dive training operations and atmosphere that you might find a party scene until late at night.
Night life on the North End is a dive with a flashlight. For the true adventurers, such as
MarkUK, he still has exhibited the required post-night dive energy to find a local bar still serving a late-night
Carib Beer... even on the very laid back North end.
A little something for everybody.
