by Matthew Allison | Aug 21, 2020 | Caribbean
A Weekend of Exploring Caves Both Above and Under-Water in the Wild Cotubanamá National Park, Dominican Republic August 2020: On my way back from Jamaica, I decided to stop in the Dominican Republic for a few days to visit the Cotubanamá National Park. I often use...
by Matthew Allison | Jul 22, 2019 | Caribbean, North America
Swimming with Moby Dick I separate the Caribbean countries into two different categories-large and small countries. I tend to prefer visiting the smaller less busy countries and Dominica meets the definition of one of these types of countries. It is idyllic, relaxed...
by Matthew Allison | Jul 10, 2019 | Caribbean
July 2019: On a day long layover in between our flight from Montserrat island and Dominica, my wife Paula and I visited the Caribbean Island nation of Antigua. Antigua, an English-speaking travel hub for the region with a lot of tourist infrastructure, is very easy...
by Matthew Allison | Jul 3, 2019 | Caribbean
July 2019: Paula and I couldn’t visit the Lesser Antilles islands without a stop in the British Overseas Territory of Montserrat, otherwise known as the Pompeii of the Caribbean because of a volcanic eruption there in the 90s that decimated the capitol, Plymouth...
by Matthew Allison | Feb 4, 2018 | Caribbean
February 2018: Swimming or diving with all of the greatest creatures of the ocean is something I have passionately pursued as one of my bucket lists items in life and I have scoured the world’s oceans to swim with humpback, sperm whales, whale Sharks, great...
by Matthew Allison | Nov 1, 2008 | Caribbean
November 2008: I had been obsessed with visiting Haiti ever since watching the movie, The Serpent and the Rainbow, where the main character, Bill Pullman visits Haiti and has a voodoo spell cast on to him turning him into a zombie. The movie was my introduction to...
