In March 2004, I went on a week-long cruise with my family. These pictures are from day 3, in Dominica.
Harbor |
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At 10:00am, I took these photos of the harbor from the ship |
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Buses and vans lined up waiting for the tourists |
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It was a rather cloudy morning |
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At 12:30pm, after lunch on this ship, my sister Amy points out something to my sister-in-law Kyoko |
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About to debark; the sun is out and most of the buses and vans are gone |
Churches |
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The steeple of the Bethesda Methodist curch |
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The tower of the old stone Catholic cathedral |
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Matthew, Kyoko, and Amy pass through the cathedral's gate |
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The interior of the old stone Catholic cathedral |
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The thingy, on the right side of the cathedral |
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Our cruise ship, through a window in the cathedral |
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My step-brother Matthew, his wife Kyoko, my sister Amy, and myself |
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The entrance to the cathedral |
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The banner reads, Our cathedral is urgently in need of renovation |
Botanical Gardens |
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A giant banyan tree at the Botanical Gardens |
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My sister Amy at the foot of the banyan tree |
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My sister Amy, our amazing tour guide Moses, and myself |
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The top of the impressive banyan tree |
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A school bus, crushed by a baobab tree in 1979 during Hurricane David |
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Fortunately, the bus was empty when the baobab fell upon it |
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The official sign, explaining what happened with the Baobab tree and the bus |
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Matthew and Kyoko admiring a balsa tree |
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A large caterpillar at the Botanical Gardens |
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Petting the caterpillar! |
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Bright red flowers at the Botanical Gardens |
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Two cute litle goats |
Trafalgar Falls |
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On the way to the waterfalls - there they are in the distance! |
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In the rainforest |
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More of the rainforest |
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Vines descending from the trees |
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Kyoko and Matthew climbing the path to the waterfalls |
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One of the Trafalgar Falls |
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This, the taller one, is called Father |
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The other of the Trafalgar Falls |
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This one, the shorter of the two, is called Mother |
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Amy and Kyoko on the viewing platform at Trafalgar Falls |
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Another shot of the Father waterfall |
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Another shot of the Mother waterfall |
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The top of the Father waterfall |
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The base of the Mother waterfall |
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Amy, Matthew, Kyoko, and myself on the viewing platform at Trafalgar Falls |
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A crab hiding on the path |
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A view across the hills of Dominica |