Cabrits National Park

Ships dock at the wooden pier of the Cabrits Cruise-Ship Port, the only cruise-ship terminal in the Caribbean within a national park.

Films about Dominica, its history and attractions are shown inside the open-air 18th C West Indian-style pavilion.

Paths lead from the pavilion into the surrounding park.

Fort Shirley was a large 18th C British garrison which once housed 600 soldiers. Some of the fort's stone ruins have been partially reconstructed; others are half-hidden in the jungle and can be explored.

Views of Prince Rupert Bay are seen from the ruins of the Officer's Quarters where there is a small museum.

Closed in 1854, Fort Shirley was briefly used in the 1870's and the 1920's as a hospital and quarantine station and later as an agricultural center.