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Dominica
Has anyone on this forum gone to the island of Dominica? Care to share some
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Dominica
"janerene" wrote:
Has anyone on this forum gone to the island of Dominica? Care to share some experiences? We went to Dominica on a cruise ship and enjoyed it very much. This is what I wrote at the time. I've heard a lot about Dominica (which is a different island completely from the Dominican Republic), and it is one of the reasons that I picked this cruise because I wanted to see if for myself. I had originally picked to do the four hour bus trip with a walk to the Emerald Pool, but a flyer came out which said that Accessible Dominica which had an optional and shorter walk to a pool at another waterfall was available, so I switched. That trip wasn't until in the afternoon. So in the morning after breakfast, we walked out into town. Bob carried an umbrella as it was raining lightly off and on, and more on than off. First we went to the Dominica Museum, which was $3 US each. It wasn't worth it. Outside the museum was a craft type fair. I had a hard time finding stuff that didn't have very loud garish colors, but I bought a pink T-shirt and a little dark pink dress for 2 granddaughters. After I got them I found out they were made in Thailand and China, and we not local. Oh well. I did get some EC coins for our grandsons I went to the tourist information place and asked if there was any place to buy coffee, and she said there was a place called Bello (pronounced Bee Low) but they were closed because it was Saturday. I probably should have bought some baskets which were nice, but I didn't decide about that in time. We are going back here though, so if you would like some baskets or woven place mats, let me know. We went back to the boat, and were tired already, so I ate an apple and we didn't go to lunch. When we went out for the tour, they packed us into a bus with several walkers and wheelchair people. I sat in the back on one side and Bob sat on the other side. It was still raining off and on but Bob said he didn't want to carry his umbrella and really we didn't need it.. We went through the botanical garden and saw the school bus that had been donated by the Canadians, but was crushed by a falling tree during a hurricane before it could be put into service. We went up to a lookout (near the prime minister's house) over the city, and I got out and took some photos. The capitol city where we docked is called Roseau, which is pronounced Rose OH. Eventually we worked our way out of the city traffic onto the coast road. We went past the Sun Princess which was docked way out of town in what looked like a cargo ship area. I would not like being there AT ALL. We stopped for a potty break, and eventually got to the waterfall, which wasn't that spectacular. One of the men was going to swim in the pool, but he said it was only about 18 inches deep - not even enough to float in. They had fruit and drinks for us there, but I wasn't sure whether they were free or not, so I just took a small wedge of watermelon. The roads were very steep and twisty, and the bus often sounded as if it was laboring. We drove back to town by the river. The tour guide sang to us, and told us stories about the plants and how to make home remedies of them. The only problem with the tour was that the first step of the bus was too high for most people (including me), and they had no stepstool. Plus they had to store the walkers etc in the aisle. Link to view these photos: http://www.photoworks.com/share/shar... lb_pml&cb=PW The following cruise we went back to Dominica. We could look through the window at the island as we were having breakfast. I was gradually working my way through the breakfast menu, and I had Belguin waffles this morning. Today our tour was to be the Ariel Tram. First we had to take a bus up the mountain. A couple of times I wasn't sure the bus was going to make it. It kept bottoming out on my corner. We passed a power station with a holding pond on the way up. The tram held 8 people (4 seats with two people) plus a guide sitting in the back. They went up to the top of the mountain on the lower track and came back down on the upper track. First, we had someone take a car around the whole system to be sure it was all working. It was kind of wet, and before we got in, two people wiped down and squeeged the water off the seats. There was a plastic cover over the tram, and I observed that there was less water on the back seats, so that's where I aimed for. We didn't bother to get rain ponchos from the store, and of course an umbrella would be useless. I had a digital camera, and also a film camera in case it really started to rain. Our guide (who was named Nigel) that rode with us told us many interesting facts about the plants and flowers we were seeing and also identified the bird calls and told us interesting things about the tram and the island. As we approached the top, it started to rain a good bit and I put away the digital camera. We could have gotten off at the top and walked down and across a suspension bridge and get back on the tram at a lower stop. But since it was raining harder, we decided not to do that. When we got down, we were offered the obligatory drink, and there was a chance to buy things at the store. Then we had to get back into the same van that we came in (there were several) to go back down the mountain. Apparently, although most of the flowering plants flower in the summer, the tram does not operate unless the cruise ships are in. And the ships only come in the winter. On the way down, I was able to take a photo of the wooden pipe, which was now on my side of the van. We also stopped at a place where we could take pictures of the mountains and buy souvenirs. I stayed on the van and Bob got off to take the pictures. We went back to the ship through the Botanical Garden and I managed to take several pictures of the squashed school bus. At the end of the tour, I got off and went into the market to buy some items. I noticed that you had to pay to use the bathrooms. For one item the lady said they were $5 each. I said I wanted 5 of them but could not afford that much money. So she said she'd give me 5 for $30. I said that is the wrong direction - that's more than $5 @. So she eventually agreed to 5 items for $20 and she would throw in another small item to boot. As I got back on the ship, I noticed that they were selling flowers to the ship provisioners on the dock. The steel drum man had gone home. We had some festivities for New Years Eve, and our dinner partners took our pictures using my camera, and we took one of them using their camera. To view the album "06.12-31D Dominica Tram" Click on the Web address link below: Link starts here = http://www.photoworks.com/share/shar...5ED2C2F3&cb=PW == Link ends here |
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Dominica
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 16:33:33 -0500, "janerene" wrote:
Has anyone on this forum gone to the island of Dominica? Care to share some experiences? You can read my experience he http://donwiss.com/travel/carib2003.htm Also see link at top to the pictures. Don www.donwiss.com/pictures/carib (e-mail link at page bottoms). |
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Hey Don. Tried to send this back privately, but the nospam in the address
bounced it back, of course. Enjoyed. I took a look at your Bonaire pictures, also, as we just got back from there. In picture 11, the orange "memorial" is actually a pyramid that is a signal to the boats that would load up the salt for export back in the old days. They have these tall pyramids (they call them obelisks, but they are actually tall skinny pyramids) in several locations on the island. There is a red one, a white one, a blue one, and an orange one (corresponding to the colors in the Dutch flag and the orange is part of their "royalty" color) The ships would be notified as to which one to anchor close to for loading. Then the slaves would load the ships. Everything at the salt pans is all automated now, of course. Windmills keep the water circulating throughout the pans, which are like "paddies". The higher the salinity, the pinker the water gets. I think there is a high concentration of shrimp in these pans. "Don Wiss" wrote in message ... On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 16:33:33 -0500, "janerene" wrote: Has anyone on this forum gone to the island of Dominica? Care to share some experiences? You can read my experience he http://donwiss.com/travel/carib2003.htm Also see link at top to the pictures. Don www.donwiss.com/pictures/carib (e-mail link at page bottoms). |
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Dominica
Don Wiss wrote:
You can read my experience he http://donwiss.com/travel/carib2003.htm Also see link at top to the pictures. Don www.donwiss.com/pictures/carib (e-mail link at page bottoms). Don I always love looking at your web page and the photos!! Your web page has such a good clean design and little clutter and the pics are EXCELLENT!! Sometimes I want really good pics of a place before deciding to go here and yours are the best on the web bar none |
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