Well, today started out as any other day on board. We were up at 6:00 am. Yes, it is true Barbara was up at 6am and in the dining room for breakfast before 7:00. Don’t everyone faint please. Our tour was supposed to start at 7:40… The immigration people failed to show (it’s Saturday). We finally got into the tender boat and at 10:00 we were on the bus and got going. The roads are terrible, worse than Pa in the spring. We went up into the mountains and I swear the bus had no suspension. Then the air conditioner broke so we opened the windows. Luckily we were headed up the mountain and the sun was hidden in clouds. Jack took a lot of photos out the bus window and you will see what appears to be pre-wrapped bananas. We saw them on Bermuda for the first time a few years ago. They put the blue plastic over the fruit to protect it from insects. Dominica is a very agricultural island. The land is very fertile and there is green growing everywhere.
We toured the Carib Indian Reservation, well at least a little village of how it used to be.
The Carib People put on a drumming and dance show for us and were just really friendly. We had some light refreshment and returned back to the ship by way of a black sand beach. Back to the wharf and a tender was waiting so we hopped on. Well the trip should take about 15 minutes but after close to an hour Jack and I finally put feet on board the ship. We made two attempts to “dock” the tender to the ship and failed. At that time Jack pointed out the measurements on the side of the ship for showing the “draft” of the ship and we watched 10 foot swells from 68-78 and that is not an exaggeration. We experimented with the video on our camera and I uploaded them to You Tube so you could see what was going on. I only have a free account on webshots and the videos are too big a file for that so I am trying you tube. The connection on the ship is very slow so I had to sit and wait for it to load otherwise you view it in spits and spurts.
First video url is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyWJuu7q6R8
Second video url is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk1xwMAqMp8
This has been the most exciting event of the trip, thank goodness. We watched each person’s form and when it came to our turn we went like pros. When we got back to the cabin we had a little wine to celebrate our brush with danger!!
The rest of the photos are on webshots just like normal.
Tomorrow St Kitts. This one is a repeat for us but we liked it a lot last time so I think we will again.
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