Prickly Bay and True Blue Bay Grenada N 12 00 W 61 45
Gryphon II
Chris and Lorraine Marchant
Wed 9 Dec 2009 02:15
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We set ourselves the rather ambitious deadline of reaching
Grenada by the 9th of December and were glad to have made it in good time.
We arrived in Prickly Bay at about lunchtime on Saturday and gradually unwound
and relaxed. We cleared customs at the customs, immigration and health clearance
offices in a tin roofed building above a launderette.
There are so many cruising boats here that there is a
"Cruiser's Net" each morning where boats exchange information and weather
forecasts are given out. One of their regular features is the "Treasures "
section. A neighbouring boat offered a Christmas tree for free, so we quickly
rowed over and are now the proud owners of a 40cm fully decorated tree, complete
with real fir cones.
After 2 nights we decided to move to a marina so that we
would find it easier to load our new crew when they arrived from the airport. We
struck lucky in the True Blue Marina. It is well worth looking up their web site
at www.truebluebay.com to see what
a super place this is. There were 2 fresh water pools we could use, a small
marina with very helpful staff and an excellent restaurant overlooking the
water.
Needless to say when our jetlagged crew arrived they
quickly deposited themselves in the pool.
  We had decided to hire a car as the easiest way to fetch
our visitors from the airport and to restock the boat. This also allowed us to
explore the island in a whirlwind tour that included a damp crater lake with
good, if muddy footpaths but with no maps. This picture shows some of the
intrepid explorers trying to look miserable (whilst having to wait for Hattie
who as usual had forgotten something).
 We also visited a cocoa processing
works where they still turn the drying beans by women walking backwards and
forwards with their bare feet and a local man who has regularly won awards at
the Chelsea Flower Show and now makes a living making modern versions of
traditional herbal remedies, especially that using the locally grown
nutmegs.
The Carenage, St Georges, Grenada
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