Dominica is the big island south of Guadeloupe, on
clear days one may even see it from both les Saintes and
Marie-Galante...and this year finally I took a boot for a day and went
to discover it. After 3-hour-catamaran crossing (the sea was pretty
tough) we saw the rain clouds hugging tighly Dominica. And this is the
moment when you understand why the island is sooooo GREEN, it rains
really every 30 minutes (sometime you get a break of 1 hour)... So we
arrived in Portsmouth, which is in the northwest. The city has some
6.000 inhabitants, the whole island has 71.000 in total. The people were
very friendly, we passed by the local market, I did some fruit&
cacao shopping and then we went for a small hike and then a river tour.
The local langauge is English. Dominica is now independent, in the past
English and French have changed several times ownership over the island.
Dominica
is the youngest of all Caribbean islands and has been nicknamed "Nature
island" for its unspoiled nature beauty: plenty of lucious rain forest,
waterfalls and rare plants&birds. Definitely worth a longer stop
one day:-)) The Sisserou parrot (featured on the flag) is found only
here and its islands national bird!
