Tamarind Tree Hotel and Restaurant Roseau

... leaving in their path a few pirates vacation packages and inspired pirate games and discoveries.


Dominica is about discovery. Much of its 360 rivers, rainforest and mountains are still unexplored. Sightseeing, trekking, hiking, diving is among the best in the Caribbean. But Dominica's ...

... cutting a passion fruit with D.'s marine knife. So watched House last night. Love that show. Cutty said at the end: You want to kiss me, don't you? House: I always want to kiss you. Their relationship never goes there. Well this must have really affected me because I dreamt about it and telling Hugh Laurie how much I enjoyed the scene. [Editor's note-- I'm about to get into some personal ****...FYI. Don't read if you don't want to ...

... brown sugar and butter inside. Quite good. Joyce gave me several presents to bring back. Very nice of her. I gave her and Jem chocolate bars from Trader Joe's but didn't have a full one to give to brenda. I felt bad about that. I wonder if I will ever come back here. Probably not to live but it is a hiker's paradise, Especially for somebody much more dedicated than ...

... about 15 minutes before he was to meet up with us....So we then needed to find a cab driver that would accomodate our schedule. Fortunately for us, we ran into the port "Pit Boss" (my nickname:-)) Job. He was a great guy, who was obviously well respected by all of the cab drivers in the area. He hand picked a cab driver for us - Llyod, that honored the price we had previously arranged ($140 for 4 of us for the day). Job ...

... once held by another lady she stop crying. I met her and shes so nice, shes around on her late 50's i guess. Time to go back to the ship, and our driver just came in time. I stop by to the downtown to get some souvenirs. Tonight is the ship's first formal night. Im excited because its lobster night for our dinner. Makayla at this time is okay and behaving good. I indulge myself with more seafood than any ...

... unevenly paved in some places and the landscape mountainous. We made our way to our first stop to view one of the Caribbean's most picturesque waterfalls, the Trafalgar Falls. These twin falls cascade into a deep pool and are surrounded by forest, lush ferns and tropical foliage.

Since it was still raining as we stepped out of the van, umbrellas were opened and raincoats put on. The 15 minute walk to ...

... laughing drunk French people.while Poolie stayed in our room to read a book and watch the new horrible Indiana Jones movie (knowing full well how awful it is, just to make fun of it.)

We went down to the Games room with drinks in hand (a banana daiquiri for me, a Raspberry Fizz for Poolie) and decided to play some Jenga. We thought it would be pretty fun to play Jenga whilst being a little tipsy from the alcohol, and ...

... s Nightclub, where most of the Australian team were having a couple of drinks. I got to have a chat to Clarkey and Roy, and also Trent Morgan from the Irish team. I even bumped into Chris Bryant from Irrawang - small world... One nasty day of hungover-flying later, I made it to St Lucia and passed out. The next day I awoke and took a 40 minute flight up to Dominica. This place is awesome! It's ...

... pronounced Doe-man-eek-a). Dominica gave us our first experience with "boat boys". We were motoring into Prince Rupert Bay in Portsmouth and were "greeted" by a young local who welcomed us and introduced himself as "David". If we needed anything, he assured us that he could help. We took him up on his offer and arranged for a tour on one of Dominica's 365 rivers. This was a lovely, quiet ride through a lush jungle of green. The next day we lined up a ...

... least about. You don't normally hear people say, I'm going to Dominica for a week. Doing a little research on the boat we learned that there really aren't any beaches here. The place is basically a big foresty mountain. The real experience in Dominica is to take a rainforest tour. Getting off into the port was very similar to St. Thomas. As soon as you step off the boat you are in the middle of chaos. Everybody wants to show you the island ...