Woke up this morning with my hand throbbing. Blah!
Eric our Doctor arranged for a tour guide for the day so I went ashore on the early skiff after a hurried
breakfast. Once there we had a bit of time to kill so Eric bandaged my hand properly. At least this way it
might actually heal in a timely manner.
The tour was fantastic. Kurt, our driver, is actually the captain of the whale watching boat at the
Anchorage Hotel and has access to the hotel’s 4×4 so we were able to get up high in the mountains. The
roads on Dominica are very narrow, many are literally a single lane. Plus there is a lot of road construction
underway which means they are rough and muddy in places.
We went up to Freshwater Lake which is in the crater of an old volcanoe. Very nice high up in the rain
forest covered mountains. We also went to Trafalgar Falls which are beautiful. A quick side trip to Pitou
Gorge was interesting. That is the narrow channel part of Pirates II was filmed in, when they fell into the
gorge in the cages.
The landscape here is very much like the West Coast of Canada but with tropical foliage. In fact part of
the trip today was in deep V shaped river valleys very much like the area around Sandon near Kaslo B.C.
We went all the way across the island to the Carib Territory which is the last indigenous area in the
Caribbean.
Here is a picture of me wandering through the Carib museum.
Note the bandages on my hand!
After we got back to Roseau we had a great dinner of fish and chips and I’m now hanging out with Eric at
an apartment he rented here.
Thanks for reading.
KJ
Eric is a bit of a video wiz so check out his latest here: Picton Scullery Ackbar (alas no longer online)
Pictures of my day ashore as soon as I can upload them.
They are here.
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