Grenada
Blue Sky's Voyage
George & Michael
Sat 15 Sep 2007 21:57
Hello
Friends
"12:00.1N 61:44.1W"
Well we haven't had any queries on the Quiz
Blog (see blog 9 Sept) so we assume that you
all agree that the questions are so easy as to be a real giveaway. The Answer
Blog has already been prepared and we reckon that a moderately keen contestant
should get 100% correct with about 30 minutes work, maybe an hour with breaks
for refreshment. Perhaps it will come down to the tie-breaker?
We're still chilling out in Grenada - a
really nice place to spend the Summer: nice people, nice island. The weather
forecasters have been sufficiently impressed with the Atlantic weather patterns
at the moment that they even said that conditions were very UNfavourable for any
tropical cyclones. For peak hurricane season in mid-September, this is a pretty
good forecast!
We have a couple of photos from our island
tour: a couple of monkeys spotted up near the crater lake in the
mountains...
... and a photo from the Rum Distillery at
St Antoine. This was an interesting guided tour around an ancient distillery.
The water wheel was still in use to crush the cane and the whole distillery
looked as though it have missed a renovation about a century ago. These are the
mash pans - complete with spider webs and goodness knows what. The mash is
ladled from one pan to the other as it concentrates at different
temperatures.
We shuddered to think what a European Food
Hygiene inspector would have to say - but after all, it goes into the stills
next so any bugs get terminated pretty quickly. The rum is produced at 75%
strength, which our careful researches can reveal is pretty warming stuff
...!
Last night we went up with some other
cruisers to the Fish Fry at Gouyave on the NW coast of Grenada. This is a great
family fun event with a great range of different fish dishes for sale in the
street stalls. People come from all over the island for this regular Friday
event. Fish pizza was very popular and were the fish rissoles.
Despite the late evening, we were up early
this morning (well, our taxi picked us up at 0900) for the Saturday market in
the capital, St George's. There is a market every weekday, but Saturday is
bigger with streets closed for extra stalls. This is a great market and the warm
friendly nature of the Grenadian people is much in evidence. It is an enjoyable
and relaxing visit - very little hassle and that, very good natured, which made
a delightful contrast to, say, St Lucia, where shopping is hard work. Despite
fairly full lockers and fridge, we still managed to buy two large carriers of
fruit and veg. Mangoes, for example and excellent quality and only about 7p each
- difficult to resist.
We also visited the fish market and bought
tuna for dinner tonight. We did see turtle for sale - chopped up in
portions...maybe next time.
Here is George discussing the cooking of
sweet potatoes with Mary in the central market.
Other news is that we had a fun sail up to
Carriacou and back last week - just for a few days for the fun of the sail - you
get harbour rot if you sit around at anchor too much.
We are also expecting our next visitor - our
good friend Jules from Sydney, Oz around the middle of October for a few
days. But we are still free most of the time and look forward to welcoming the
Quiz winner and friends.
And a final thought for the week: there is
always strong feeling (in the UK at least) about Hunting with Hounds. Well last
week we saw the locals hunting Iguana with hounds - and very successful they
were at it too.
Best Wishes and Good Luck with the
Quiz
George & Michael
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