After Curacao, we stopped at Antigua. As I have been here twice before, I just went to a beach, so didn't take many photos. See my previous blogs on St Johns and Antigua.
From Antigua, our next stop was Dominica. Unfortunately we weren't allowed off the ship unless on a ship tour. And another ship had the prime berth in Roseau town, we were further out at Woodbridge Bay. The port was just a small area surrounded by shipping containers, with a few tourist stalls. I'd booked an afternoon tour so wasn't able to go anywhere in the morning. There was light rain when we arrived.
Dominica has been a French and then British colony and gained independence in 1978. Dominica has mountains and rainforest and is lovely and green. Tropical Storm Erika devastated the island in August 2015, then Hurricane Maria caused more damage in 2017. Vehicles are right hand drive and the official language is English.
On the tour, we drove through Roseau the capital.
View point at Morne Bruce garrison, overlooking Roseau. The Windsor Park stadium is multi purpose but mainly for cricket. Our ship is far right. -
We went back down to the coast road and south along the coast, through Pointe Michel and past Champagne Bay
Dominica has over 2500 solar street lights. This one is wind turbine -
View over Soufriere Bay and Scotts Head.
At Soufriere we paddled in the sea, digging feet into sand and the water is really hot, from volcanic heat. An active volcano bubbles below the surface of the sea.
Then onto Scotts Head with the Atlantic on one side and Caribbean Sea on the other. Soufriere is the village in the far distance below the hills -
Scott's Head with the calm Caribbean on the right -
The rough Atlantic -
Looking back to Scotts Head village with the Caribbean on the left and Atlantic on the right -
From here we went inland and up to Bois Cotlette estate. One of the oldest surviving estates on Dominica, dating from 1870s. An old sugar cane plantation, which turned to rum as the sugar was poor quality cos of the humidity. They also produced coffee. It is an archaeological site. There is a French style Master's House, (the sun was right behind it so I couldn't get a good photo from the front) -
Had hibiscus and rum, not very nice, and some Creole “dumplings” -
Building used for sorting coffee -
Then it was back to the ship, our last full day in the Caribbean.
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