Tuesday Jan 14th: Dominica

Today we went to Dominica. This was possibly our favorite port. We had an amazing tour today with Levi and Gary (meow - we can't say the word 'Gary' without thinking of Sponge Bob - "Goodnight Gary" "Meow") at Bumpiing Tours. They were awesome. We saw the entire island today. It was incredible.




The first adventure we did was at Titou Gorge. Titou Gorge is this narrow cave that you swim through back to a little water fall that you climb up and then jump off of. The water was freezing but that made it even more exciting. There was a natural warm water shower spring that came out right by the gorge. It was nice to cool off, eh, warm up after swimming and playing in the gorge. Brandon and Wes jumped off the ledge down into the freezing cave. They loved that!

This is where we swam into the narrow cave.






After Titou Gorge, we went to Trafalgar Falls. This was a pretty touristy place but Gary (meow), our guide, knew where to take us when to avoid most of the crowds. We sat in some mineral hot springs and then climbed around on some big rocks to get over to play at the bottom of Trafalgar Falls. The waterfall was gorgeous and climbing around on the rocks was really fun! Brandon and Wes swam around at the bottom of the falls. Saun and I were glad they both had each other to do that with!


After the falls we went snorkeling at Champagne Reef. It is called Champagne Reef because there are cracks in the coral or ocean floor (?) that release bubbles like you are in an aquarium. The bubbles were awesome. Some of them were really big. We also saw a turtle and a lot of really pretty fish. It was some good snorkeling.

Then we headed back to the ship for our daily trip to the deli, afternoon nap, sail away ice cream cone, dining room dinner and the show!