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Published: April 21st 2012Central America Caribbean » Dominica » Toucarie
April 21st 2012

Toucari reef with black durgeon, sergeant-major fish and brown chromis

It's been 2 months since the last post and we have no excuses. Just having a good time! Although we have a house here, Dominica is usually an adventure, often a surprise and always beautiful. So that's why we continue the travel blog, because this is a different world...

We have been getting on with a great deal of gardening (mostly Kate) and quite a bit of project work (mostly Andy). But it's the walks in the rainforest, the trip to Chaudiere pool, the evenings at Taco Tuesdays, the boat trips, the beach trips and the fun with friends that are the most memorable. Thanks to you all for making Dominica even more wonderful.

The pictures below tell the story (well part of the story anyway)...

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Kate and Andy wandering

We are an English couple who seem to spend a lot of time away from home. We started this blog when we took a 7 week winter road trip through California in 2007 and have continued to update our travels since. ... full info

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chaudiere pool - Kate with John and Rob

Called a "Costal Wine Cruise" this was a great day out on Helen's boat

chaudiere pool - Andy with the pool to himself

just another Toucari sunset

extreme gardening - Kate and Son clearing dead stuff and bindweed

extreme gardening - Kate drags garden rubbing off to build a fire

extreme gardening - one of several fires in the last month to get rid of garden rubbish

Andy with his first home-made screen ready to start screen printing

it has been a slow process importing the ink and getting the emuslion to work but - woohoo - I could be printing pretty soon

We haven't got a mouse so this chap volunteered to help out

felling a palm tree - Kurt and Jerome climb across the roof then Jerome bridges the gap to the tree with a home-made ladder

I'm still not sure why Kate wouldn't let me do this...

felling a palm tree - Jerome trims the leaves from the tree

felling a palm tree - the top trimmed and a line attached ready for chopping to start

felling a palm tree - Andy takes the ceremonial first few swings before Kurt and Son get on with it properly

felling a palm tree - Kurt and Jerome take a break, the tree is already in 4 pieces ready to carry away

felling a palm tree - Son and Kate celebrate

felling a palm tree - the team with their victim

beautiful Toucari reef

our house viewed from the boat in the bay

just below the centre point of the photo

Andy with Son on our potential building plot

building project - Andy goes back to the drawing board

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