March 31, 2024

Easter Sunday, and I was awake early enough to catch the sunrise!

Our first visit to Dominica was on our Vista cruise in December where our son arranged a private tour of the island sights. If you are interested you can use the search bar to find that post. Today we chose a tour that we wanted to do last time but it was wait listed… the whale and dolphin tour.

We noticed that all of the decorative eggs are different for Easter. They are really pretty and the chocolate bunnies are everywhere at the buffet.

Here are some pictures of our sail in.

Roseau is Dominica’s most important port for foreign trade and common exports are bananas, bay oil, vegetables, grapefruit, oranges and chocolate.

We had a beautiful day for our boat ride out to hopefully see whales and dolphins. There was some type of “finder” on board. The captain stopped the boat several times to drop it in the water and listen for sounds and then play some sounds to attract them.

It was a while before the crew spotted two sperm whales. They only surface for a short time, then they deep dive and stay below for much longer. I didn’t spot them, but Norm got a glimpse. No picture opportunity though.

Towards the end of the trip, we came to an area where there were hundreds of spotted dolphins. The crew showed us pictures of all the types of whales and dolphins that are in these waters. These dolphins put on quite a show for us! Not sure you can tell much from this video, but here is a picture of one of them. They were everywhere! And much closer than the video but I wasn’t quick enough to catch them.

When we got back, we had lunch and then went to the trivia competition. We got first place with 2 other teams. One of our teammates, Wendy, gave me some Peeps for Easter. Of course they are very popular – made in Bethlehem PA where I went to nursing school.

We had another delicious dinner in Red Ginger. And our show was another by Tom Franek who was terrific again. One thing he did this time was to take suggestions from the audience and play a medley of the songs or songs by suggested artists. These included Queen, Leonard Skinner, the Beatles, Jerry Lee Lewis and more. Very entertaining.

Tomorrow is our last port before we cross the Atlantic to Cape Verde which will take 4 days and several time zone changes!