The last few days of Dominica we tried to occupy ourselves as much as possible since we did not have air condition in our house (it will not happen again…) we simply could not stay there at all during daytime.
In Calibishie we’ve “done it all” since it is a very small town. Here is an example of Dominica joining the club of “chicken or fish”-question, the standard Caribbean lunch plate.
Rice with beans, mahi-mahi fish and provisions (i.e. sweet potatoes, cassava, dasheen)
Calibishie is surrounded by a rain forest “wall”, quite stunning. What struck us about Dominica is how very poor the island is, and this shows.
Did I marry a surfer?
Fashion boutique on Calibishie high street
The usual “super market”
Your new holiday home?
The beaches here are not cleaned as in most other places, hence they are not very picture perfect. But that didn’t stop us! And they are fun to explore for small crawlers.
We also did some more sightseeing, this time back to Portsmouth and Fort Shirley, an old English fort that protected Dominica from the French. It was really great, fantastic views and very windy!
We kind of managed to take a self portrait
Then we went to visit the famous Cold sulphur springs. It was supposed to be a 45 minute trek through the rain forest so we prepared with lots of food and water and set off, quite excited. Luckily we got there in just 20 minutes, just to be hugely disappointed:
These springs do not impress an Icelandic girl, no
We had more fun afterwards trying to get the girls to pose.
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Mom trying to cut F in half?
In the evenings and mornings we enjoyed being pampered by our private chef. We were the only guests at the hotel!
Dominica is the last outpost out of civilization, by next blog we’ll be in Puerto Rico!
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