Sat 7 April
At a buoy off Portsmouth Town in Prince Rupert Bay. N Dominica.
Sun 8 Apr - Easter Sunday
Busy day. Long rain forest walk to Indian River source springs. Huge bannana and mango trees. Geckos and land crabs aplenty. Not many birds.
Long minibus trip to see E side of Island and the Caribe Indian reserve. Terrific flowers. Lush valleys. Lots of fruit trees. Huge cliffs. Impressive bays. Caribe people very sweet, now that they don't eat tourists any more. They came from Orinoco delta about 200BC but have outstayed their visas and now cant work. Anyway they can't find their canoes. They make lovely hats ansd mats, and have some cats.
Indian River boat trip. Oars only. Mangroves and voodoo. Local boatman 'Friday' took us. Lovely chap, very characterful and informative but I suspect he enjoyed a lot of wacky baccy in his day. We got a cold beer in a sort of ramshackle muddy treehouse thingy at the head of the river.
PM we try to go the Sunday night beach BBQ, but it is heavily oversubscribed by euro tourists from charter boats and all is in chaos. Instead have nice fishy dishy at ' Big Papas' local beachside eating shack.
Mon 9 Apr.
Dominica to Les Saintes archepelago.
Tues 10 Apr.
at Grande Bourg, Les Saintes.
Weds 11 Apr
Bourg harbour Les Saintes to Point A Pitre harbour (PaP) marina in S. Guadaloupe.
Thurs 12 Apr.
PaP marina to outer harbour anchorage. Preps for pasage up the Salee river between the 2 halves of Guadaloupe.
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