Monday, February 9, 2009

Hot Springs in Rainforest





After a evening on Quartermoon with Aliisa we notice our other friends Jess and Marcus have turned up on their boat veracity a purple lugger, they introduce us to a german couple aboard a aluminium cat and we get invited over for a few drinks that evening. We have been talking some time about selling Quartermoon to buy a cat and after a night aboard Baju Sym has already decided he wants to sell Quartermoon and build another boat in Australia. So who knows where we will be in a year or so
After we all leave the boat ( a bit drunk) there is a medical school party going on in the club the purple turtle just off the beach so me, Sym, Marcus and Jess end up in there dancing with no shoes on( i cut my feet on glass three times - not impressed). At 2 am I decide to tie the tender around my waist and we all swim back to the boat. Brillant Night!

Jess's dad used to live in Dominika for many years and so told us of a place to go into the rainforest where there are natural hot springs, so the next day (slightly rough)we put on our walking shoes and go treking into the forest. We follow Marcus's informative map which looks like it has been drawn by a three year old!
Thankfully Daniel a local builder sees us and kindly takes us through the forest to the hot springs. On the way he uses he machetti to cut down fruit from the trees for us to try, so we get coco fruits,coconuts and sym picks his own grapefruit and bananas!It was absolutely amazing. After about half an hour we arrive and all go for a dip in these natural hot springs. It was brillant, first time ive had a bath in seven months, i just wish i bought some shampoo with me! Everyone was really chuffed as it was completly off the tourist track and without Daniels help we would not of found it in a million years. We decide that the following day we will hire a mini bus for us all and do more site seeing with the company of Daniel and his friend!
Dominika is the best place we ve been so far!!

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