Dominica

Well, after we left the island in Martinique we took the boat to Dominica. A lot of people don't pronounce Dominica correctly. It sounds like "dominoes" It's pronounced "Dom-in-ee-ka".






We all loved this island! We want to come back. Dominica has a lot of rivers and waterfalls. It is only 29 miles long and 16 miles wide. That's not very big. It is the most under-developed island. It also is the home to the a very small population of Caribs, the people who inhabited the land hundreds of years ago!

We stayed in a retreat in the rainforest. The retreat had waterfalls and beautiful plants. There were also four natural hot springs; one right outside our door!

There were a lot of land crabs. Karen was in the hot spring one night and a crab came right up to her and just stared at her! She said that she moved closer to it and it started threatening her with it's pincher. It made Karen laugh because the little crab thought it was so tough!






Our room had three bedrooms and it was very nice. One night we came home and there were four gecko's in our room! They were pretty big. The rooms had no windows; only shutters and so they came in when the shutters were open. At night we could hear all the sounds of the rain forest. It was really pretty noisy!





A short walk from the retreat is Trafalgar Falls. It has two very big waterfalls! We climbed over the rocks and spent a lot of times just thinking about the beauty there.

Then we climbed around the rocks and found some hot springs to soak in. The springs are hot because of the island is volcanic.

The next day we hiked to the second of the tallest mountain; The Morne Trois Piton! It is 4,450 feet. The second largest boiling lake is there. It took six hours and we were all congratulating ourselves when we finished the walk. Today, none of us are walking too well. We are all very sore!


As we left the dock to come home, we spotted a real Pirate Ship! Flat Autumn and I were scared, but Karen told us not to worry. This ship is used to entertain tourists and so we were in no danger. Both Flat Autumn and I were really relieved.


We boarded the boat and came back for our last night in Saint Lucia.