We started off the day by going to the beach, but we didn't stay long as it was very touristy, and we were constantly getting bombarded by people selling stuff, and other british tourists. We then wandered around the nearby market, but there wasn't much happening because it was Sunday, and most buses weren't runnng. Also we couldn't get to the other side of the island to see the famous 'Pitons' because the hurricane had ruined a lot of the roads. It was diffic...

Dominica was the greenest island we went to by far. It was very dense rainforest, and extreemley mountainous which made it difficut to build on, and therefore deforestation hadn't occurred as drastically as on the other islands. As was usual, as soon as we got off the boat, there was on onslaught of taxi drivers offering us extortionate fees to take us around the island and denying there were any local buses. This time was much worse than before, and some even...

Everyone was so friendly! We decided to rent a car on St Martin as it's such a small island and the easiest way to get around was by driving. We walked over to the car rental place and were immediatley hounded by a row of men in their booths shouting prices at us and flashing pictures of cars and heeps at us. As soon as we walked over to them, a few of the guys started racing round in their various jeeps to show off their wheels, blasting out their tunes and c...

As soon as we got off the boat (Malcom safely tacked away in a box in my bag!) all we heard is "Rasta!" and "Bob Marley!" mainly aimed at Matt... all the locals were very impressed with his, and my, dreads and wanted to give us "respect" and shake our hands. Once we worked our way through our rastafarian onslaught and hoards of taxi drivers offering us lifts, we found a quietish area at the dock to release Malcom, who was at this po...

After a bit of searching on the internet, we found out that our bird was a Storm Petrel and we could feed him raw fish and water. I also wrote to the RSPB to ask them what to do, but they didn't reply. Matt managed to get some anchovies from the restaurant and started hand feeding him as he wouldn't eat from the bath we made him in the sink or from a bowl. Rhys named him Malcom and we made him a semi permanent bedroom in the bottom of the cupboard in our cabin. C...