A Long Walk

Well, a long walk for us. Dominica is one of the most unusual islands in the Caribbean as it is still very much a wilderness. This is mostly due to the fact that it is very mountainous. It doesn't have endless white sand beaches which means it has been bypassed by the large scale tourist developments. Although this has reduced the amount of tourist money coming into the island to date they have now recognised the potential of eco-tourism and are setting up lots of walks to the numerous waterfalls and springs in the mountains some of which are quite spectacular. Sadly, we will not have time to explore these properly this time round.

However, with Stewart and Karen from Pampero we did walk up to the Syndicate Falls. These are reasonably close and the walk was not supposed to be too difficult. The only real problem was that we all misread the map and underestimated the distance from Portsmouth to the turning off the main road. Thus, we were all very footsore and tired but it was a lovely setting!

We were not allowed to swim in it as the river forms a water supply for several villages but we did drink some of it which was very refreshing. A lot of the islands are very dry and only get water from desalination so it was nice to have very fresh water!

We will be moving on to Guadaloupe in the next few days though we have already pushed back our departure by a day as always seems to happen with us!