View out the window on my flight from San Juan to Dominica
Date: 08/15/2011
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Fields of bananas along the road. Blue bags keep birds and field mice from nesting and eating the fruit.
Date: 08/14/2011
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We overlook many farms and villages as we climb to higher elevation.
Date: 08/15/2011
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Prim collects two different type of ferns, one with a white underside and another with yellow underside. He will show me how to make a "fern tattoo."
Date: 08/15/2011
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Prim's fern tattoo
Date: 08/15/2011
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Hillsides are covered with yam fields. Prim explains that by staking the yam vines upward, they actually produce more tubers than allowing them to spread on the ground.
Date: 08/15/2011
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Roadside view as we cross the northern tip of the island.
Date: 08/15/2011
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Typical Dominica "highway." According to Prim, it would take around 6 hours to circumnavigate the entire island, as this is one of the "better roads."
Date: 08/15/2011
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Prim finds fresh water crabs along the path to Cold Soufriere.
Date: 08/15/2011
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He explains that this one is very small, but still could be used to flavor the local Callaloo Soup.
Date: 08/15/2011
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Cold Soufriere means "cold sulfur spring." The 15 minute path leads to a rock clearing surrounded by a mountain stream where gaseous hydrogen sulfide bubbles up in 17 different cold spring pools.
Date: 08/15/2011
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One of the larger cold sulfur pools at Cold Soufriere.
Date: 08/15/2011
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Roadside chicken spicy barbecue near Picard made for a delicious lunch!