We first visited Dominica on our Honeymoon in May, 1999. We snorkeled, birdwatched, and toured the fascinating interior of the island: steep mountains, rainforest, banana plantations, waterfalls, and freshwater lakes.

On our return trip in January 2006, our main activity was SCUBA diving. We made 20 dives, mostly on the southwestern end of the island. On our last diving day, we made a few dives on the middle west coast. The east coast, as with most Caribbean islands, faces the Atlantic Ocean and is too rough to dive.

The reefs of Dominica are plentiful with sponges and with crinoids, an ancient relative of the starfish that is very photogenic and has 20-40 feathery arms that it uses to comb the water for food. Karen took the underwater shots for this trip.

The north wing of the Anchorage Hotel. Our room was on the top left.	View from our room	We had rainbows every day, sometimes for several hours.	Double rainbow
Filbert retrieves the dive boat	The view from our boat trip to the reef - Dominican hillsides shrouded in mist	Harald and Bea, our East Carib Dive hosts	Harald gives the on-board dive briefing on a white board stored under the bow of the dive boat.
Diving for the pot of gold with Anchorage...	Two pygmy filefilsh floating at the surface in sargassum	An ecosystem of algae, hydroids, and sponges growing on the mooring line	Reeftop at Swiss Cheese
Reeftop at Dangleben's Pinnacles	Condo reef	Jordan cruises by a giant barrel sponge	Giant barrel sponge in front of the hotel
Gorgonian	Deep water sea fan	Smooth flower coral	Spiny flower coral
Branching vase sponge	azure vase sponge	Pink vase sponge	Kaleidoscope of fish, coral, sponges, and feather dusters