Dominica

We arrived in Domnica after reading and hearing stories about the boat boys hassling hard for tours and whatever else they can steal and had in our heads it wasn't going to be one of the safer places. As usual all those stories were way over exaggerated. 2 mile from the anchorage though a boat boy did come and meet us for the usual mooring ball?? Tour?? But then smiled and said welcome to Dominica and then another after we dropped anchor. The problem was we actually did want to do tours and thinking this was part of the bargaining we said no to try to get a better deal and then never saw them again for days! So long story short the tour we did want to do to the boiling lake never happened although the 8 hour hike made our bodies ache just thinking about it. So we did a couple of small local tours closer to the town including the Indian River boat trip and seeing were Pirates of the Caribbean 3 was filmed and I tell you what the locals here are for sure the friendliest we have met in the Caribbean so far, very happy bunch.  Even the Saturday morning vege market had a full 5 piece reggae band playing old Jimmy Cliff classics was awesome. Our search though for cheap beer still continues though having to pay $40Aus a case:). But the veges were a lot better than the rest of the islands so far.

Also very easy to get good water with a hose on a mooring in the anchorage you can tie off. We then had a great sail in just 10 knots of wind to Marie-Galante  Guadaloupe, Julie even managed to do the washing!