Day 6

Dominica as we were docking

We were able to sleep in this morning as we didn’t dock at Dominica until 10:00 am. We have never been here so we decided to hire a guide to take us around the island.

We found someone off the dock and away we went exploring. The high light was a ride up into the mountains and then a 10 minute hike to see Trafalgar Falls. The island is called the emerald isle of the windward because it has a lot of mountains and almost the entire island is rain forest or close to it. The entire island consists almost entirely of volcanic peaks and it is very impressive to see. The mountains rise right out of the ocean.

They are keeping the island very laid back as they are not allowing any major hotel to build a resort or even letting a major restaurant chain to build.

At the falls

Trafalgar Falls is actually two separate falls, one 125 feet tall and the other on 75 feet and they are virtually right together.

After our 2 ½ hour tour, we returned to the ship for lunch and then back out to go shopping. Not really anything else on the island to see so we were back on the ship by a little after 3 to get ready for the Captains party tonight and our first formal night which is always fun.

Formal night was fun. We always try to sit for awhile and just watch the people; you would be amazed what some people wear.

Our dinner partners showed up – they are newly weds, but not their first marriage and they are from Boston.

A crab along the walkway

We saw the show went to the casino and did just fine and now it is tomorrow and we dock in Barbados soon.

Ready for the first formal night