The garden - our first cachou nut (the fruit tastes like a bitter apple and the nut is dried, roasted and cracked to reveal the tasty nut)

Toucarie - staying in and going out

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May 9th 2011
Somehow this blog from May was never published. So take yourself back to spring and here are our final thoughts before returning from Dominica... There has been lots of rain so our snorkelling trips were delayed due to murky water but we still got out there as much as we could. The Reef Fish book comes out after each trip to check on new fish we have seen. Life at the house is still wonderful, ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Dominica » Toucarie

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Dominica was the last of the Caribbean islands to be colonized by Europeans, due chiefly to the fierce resistance of the native Caribs. France ceded possession to Great Britain in 1763, which made the island a colony in 1805. In 1980, two years after... ... read more