Dominica (First Cruise - Installment #3)

Tuesday I found myself on Dominica (pronounced Dom-in-eek-a).  Dominica sits midway along the Eastern Caribbean archipelago, just a few miles from Martinique to the south and Guadeloupe to the north.  The indigenous Carib Indians named the island Waitukubuli which means "tall is her body" in the carib language.  The island is sparsely populated with around 70,000 people inhabiting its 289.5 square miles.  A significant portion of the population lives in and around the capital city, Roseau.  Dominica is an arcadia of unspoiled nature with tropical forest covering roughly two thirds of the island.  Rivers, lakes, streams, and waterfalls abound, are fed by the islands high annual rainfall.  There are so many rivers that the people there boast of having a river for each day of the year (365).   In addition, Dominica is a volcanic island having black beaches and has one of the larges boiling lakes in the world.