The Wandering Scot
An occasional travel journal
Roseau
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| Fort Young Hotel, guarded by Cannon
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| View from Fort Young Hotel
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| Old State House
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| Office of the President
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| Hurricane-wracked shell of the Carnegie Library
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| Wrecked shell of the Anglican Cathedral
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| Methodist Church
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| Catholic Cathedral
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| Roseau Street View
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| Neg Mawon Emancipation Monument
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| Dominica Museum
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Dominica Museum: Export Crops
Sugar, Coffe, Lime Juice, Vanilla, Bananas, ...
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Indian River
A one hour boat tour down the brackish Indian River and some smaller creeks, through mangrove swamps.
Some of the scenery was used for one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
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| Boat and Boatman
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| Paddling down Indian River
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| A narrower side creek
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| Buttressed "Bwa Mang" trees
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| Cafe-Bar "Built for Pirates of the Caribbean"
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Fort Shirley
Fort Shirley was built around 1780 to defend against the French. It was the site of an 1802 mutiny by African slave soldiers,
which eventually led to all British slave soldiers being freed in 1807.
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| Distant view to Fort Shirley
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| Fort Shirley
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| Officers Quarters
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| Graham at Fort Shirley
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Negotiations with Rebel Maroons
Probably a rather idealized view.
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| Idealized view of Native Party
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| Guide "Martin" with cannon
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| Graham + Cannon
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Ominously named school, in the town of Massacre
(Named for an infamous 1674 massacre of Caribs by British troops)
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Waterfalls
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| Island view, from near falls
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Entrance to Titou Gorge
You need to swim in. (I skipped.)
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| Middleham Falls
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| Middleham Falls
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| Trafalgar Falls
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| Trafalgar Falls (A)
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| Trafalgar Falls (B)
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Suriname