The second day in Dominica we had booked an all-day inland tour with cruising friends on Navigator and La Leeze. We saw sweeping vistas of the island, the home of a woman who had lived to 128, and we all learned more about the plants that grow here. Our guide stopped several times to pick wild lemon grass, basil, bay leaves, cashews and fruits from the side of the road.
We stopped at a cassava bakery where the Caribe Indians are still making bread the original ways. We sampled a warm piece and it was very good. Kim bought a hand woven basket that rivaled those that we had seen in Charleston for 1/10 of the
The highlights of the trip were the hike to a waterfall where we could swim beneath the cascading water and another hike that lead us to a naturally heated pool. We had to swim across a river with a very swift current to get to the pool on the other side. The current was so swift that we started across about 30 feet upstream and swimming as fast as we could across the stream would land us at our target. We emerged from the cool fresh water river and immersed ourselves in 105 degree water heated by the volcanic activity below. It was wonderful. Emily must have crossed that stream 5 times, each time getting braver and further away from Dad’s reaching hands.
After a long day, we returned to our boats to be greeted by a short tropical downpour and a double rainbow that spread all the way between
Tom
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