9/4/09 - 16.18.4N 61.47.9W

Flying Cloud
Julian Nichols
Thu 9 Apr 2009 02:23
As the forecast today was for rain (and there was plenty of it during the night to prove the point!) we decided to hire a car and look around Guadeloupe. Its a big old island, and we managed about 25% of it in 6 hours of quite tiring driving. We stayed on Basse Terre - which is the Leward part of the "butterfly island" - and explored the mountains and rainforest. Our main goal was the Carbet Falls - which i had mislead the girls into thinking was a swimming opportunity. When we arrived it became clear that it wasn't. Fortunately we had €3 left by the time we arrived at the park, which was just enough to pay the €2.4 entrance!

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The rain forest was spectacular - and accessible for a 3 3/4 year old..... even though some of the leaves were bigger than Daisy!

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As we searched the island for a cash dispenser (never found one with any money in it) we cane across this fruit man picture that Ella loved.

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Dinner on the boat tonight!

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