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Dominica
Stairway to heaven
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"Moonfish. No, not. Yes it is.
No it isn't. Why not? Because it looks like a shark.
Heee?!! You're fucked up man. No man, look. Here, the
skin. Feel, don't think. Be happy man. No problems you
know..."
After sixteen days of sailing Maaike and Peter stare
into the moist cavities where once were the eyes of
a beautiful fish. It has been caught on a hook and no
one knows its name. The body resembles that of a moonfish
and the head and skins that of a shark.
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Dominica:
peace and quiet. No hassle from overpriced marinas or
even having to dish out dollars just to drop an anchor.
Checking in, no problem. Expenses? 5 EC dollar or just
about 2 US. Jackobean even helps if you don't want him
too. The ex-boatboy who once helped tie the lines from
the yachts to palm trees and then removed them at night
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 "You
know, married ahhh"
"And the washing?"
Let us be practical for a change. The jeans will rot
and that is going to freak Maaike out. They were the
ones in which she wanted to be filmed.
"Laundry? Aiai man. Go to Crissy".
The dirty underwear is washed together with the sweaty
shirts and the stinking towels. Five large supermarket
bags with 7 kilo's washing each cost just 50 guilders.
Hand dried.
"Hey guys, go you get your nephew".
We need some kids for a production for the kids cartoons
in the children's magazine Sam Sam. We eventually get
six of them. Incredibly enthusiastic, totally crazy
and really quite sweet.
over into the sea or experience some other catastrophe.
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"He jumps
from six metres!!"
The neighbour Tony has a dog that is practising to become
a diving instructor. It is an unsightly animal that
he took with him from the Canaries. Tony made the trip
last year in a 25 footer. No, it wasn't a very fast
crossing, he took over 36 days, which he still remembers
quite vividly. He has just arrived from Trinidad where
he had spent the past six months. He is on his way to
Grenada but because he didn't have an engine he ended
up here in Dominica. Things like that are normal. No
flapping sails. Live on a stable platform for a while.
He will stay for at least another seven or eight days!!
We popped over to the market in the tender sponsored
by Klaas de Jong to get some fresh oranges, banana's,
breadfruit and pineapple. After that we visited the
tropical rain forest on the island, went out to take
pictures of the whales and checked if the island's volcanoes
are still active. The locals say that they are. American
scientists are even saying that in a few years the southern
side of Dominica will blow up, keel over into the sea
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