Fields of bananas along the road. Blue bags keep birds and field mice from nesting and eating the fruit.

We overlook many farms and villages as we climb to higher elevation.

Prim collects two different type of ferns, one with a white underside and another with yellow underside. He will show me how to make a "fern tattoo."

Prim's fern tattoo

Hillsides are covered with yam fields. Prim explains that by staking the yam vines upward, they actually produce more tubers than allowing them to spread on the ground.

Roadside view as we cross the northern tip of the island.

Typical Dominica "highway." According to Prim, it would take around 6 hours to circumnavigate the entire island, as this is one of the "better roads."

Prim finds fresh water crabs along the path to Cold Soufriere.

He explains that this one is very small, but still could be used to flavor the local Callaloo Soup.

Cold Soufriere means "cold sulfur spring." The 15 minute path leads to a rock clearing surrounded by a mountain stream where gaseous hydrogen sulfide bubbles up in 17 different cold spring pools.

One of the larger cold sulfur pools at Cold Soufriere.

Roadside chicken spicy barbecue near Picard made for a delicious lunch!