Dominica was our next stop. The city of Portsmouth drew my interest as it's the place I was born. Portsmouth, NH that is. It turned out to be a wide open bay. A local named Lawrence came 3 miles offshore to greet us . He was arranging island tours. We chatted with several locals that afternoon as they came out to greet us. Dominicans are an extremely friendly people. Their zeal to ear a better income has won our admiration and we found them to be polite and respectful of each others clients. Portsmouth turned out to be very rolly so we moved south to Roseau the capitol city. Customs was handled at the cruise ship dock and we made a great adventure of walking the back streets buying oranges and eating them as we strolled through the busy narrow streets.

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We were having thoughts about getting refrigeration installed on the Omarsea so we decided to head for Martinique. After a late departure we headed out of Roseau and located several whale watching vessels on station. From a distance we saw several whales blowing and moving about. They dove and we lost track of the pod. Thinking it might be some time before they surfaced we headed south again and it was Jean that spotted this loan sperm whale just off the southern tip of Martinique. We sailed along at about 2 knots and the animal began to swim toward us very slowly blowing repeatedly. Then just as we were 30 feet away it suddenly sounded and disappeared. We all stood in awe at the wonderful luck which had befallen us.