Dominica

We arrived in Dominica on Tuesday evening and were surprised to see that ‘Norn’ was still there. Kristle and Ben introduced us to some friends of theirs from Scotland, Peter and Gordon, who are sailing in the same direction as us. They all came over for a roast lamb dinner on Wednesday and it turns out that Gordon used to sail Scottish Island class boats, the same class of boats as Chris’s father’s boat, Gigha, in fact he thought he may have sailed Gigha once.


On Thursday we did the Indian River trip with Peter and Gordon. The boatman rows you along a meandering river through rain forest for about a mile. He points out all the unusual trees and plants and we saw iguanas, blue herons and humming birds. It rained for a lot of the trip, which added to the tropical rain forest ambiance.

I loved the calm and peacefulness of the place. Even the children were quiet.

On Easter Sunday, the Easter Bunny hid lots of little chocolate eggs all over Octopus. The children collected them in baskets they had made the day before and shared them out before they all melted in the heat. The weather then became disappointing, very wet and dull and a large swell was coming into the bay, Norn moved on because of the rolling and even Octopus was rolling a lot, when she is usually very steady. We decided to move onto Les Saintes, a group of
Guadeloupe’s off-shore islands