Location: Roseau, Dominica
Today was the group excursion on the lovely island of Dominica. Our aptly named guides were Sea Cat and Stowe. They showed us the culinary delights of the island. All the cool kids got down and boogied in Stowe’s van on the way to grapefruit picking. Climbing trees to get our own fruits was a new and very fun experience for a lot of us. We also had sugarcane fresh from the tree; the perfect recipe is to put some grapefruit juice on it. It’s delicious! We then hopped back in the taxis, making stops on the road to pick some more local fruits and berries, including guava, raspberries, breadnut, nectarine, ginger, and cinnamon. We discovered a nut, which seeds deliver a red fluid, used as face paint or as food coloration. Some pretty artistic face drawings happened during the ride, which made us not look like tourists at all when we arrived at an artisanal coconut bread stand. Very delicious bread! Afterward, we learned how to make chocolate directly from the chocolate bean and had some very tasty passion fruit. After having lunch on a gorgeous beach, we went swimming at the Emerald Pool, which is a little pond of fresh water with a stunning waterfall in the middle of the rainforest. On our way back to Argo, we stopped at the Botanical Garden and at a high point of the mountain, where we could see a striking view of the island. In conclusion, it was a very flavorsome and appetizing day!