January 9th Monday
Roseau Dominica
After 2 days at sea we were ready to walk on land. It was only about a mile into town so we decided to walk in. The ship did provide shuttles and now we know why. Roseau is a very small depressed Island. There are no sidewalks and the people are not very friendly, and very poor. They are still trying to recover from Hurricane David that devastated the Island a few years ago. Why the ship stopped here I don’t know. Maybe it was because of their rainforests or maybe to help stimulate the economy. That was about the only excursion that was offered. But I am sure they had their reasons. It took us about a ½ hr to walk onto town. We were just about the only ones to choose to. It was 85 degrees and 60 percent humidity…..hot. Not used to the heat yet. Finally got into the ‘shopping area’, not much there but overpriced junk. Bruce wanted to mail some postcards to Kai. Found the post office and decided to take the shuttle back to the ship. Rumor had it that a passenger was run over by a shuttle bus and had to go the the island hospital. The ship was late to leave port waiting for her to get back to the ship. Found out later that we had our first casualty of the cruise. Her foot was crushed, and she had to be flown to Miami. The foot was amputated, but she is doing well. Terrible thing to happen. Even our table steward said that he would not stay at a hospital on this island if he did not have to. On to Barbados and sailing through clear blue and green tropical waters.
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