The most southrly point in our voyage
Flinns
Terry/ Nicola Flinn
Mon 29 Jan 2007 23:45
13:07.59N 61:11.48W Blue Lagoon St
Vincent
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Grenada is wonderful and we had great fun
exploring this interesting island. We visited the very lively spice and
vegetable market in St George's and, because there wasn't a cruise liner in
port, the stallholders very relaxed and friendly, unlike the very next day when
the place was just a scrum with an influx of several hundred
tourists.
We jumped on a local bus which took us high up into
the mountains and had a long walk through the rainforest; because it was a
Sunday and most of the buses had stopped running, we were forced to walk
about 5 miles back down the mountain road. However, when we stopped for some
refreshment at one of the stops on the tourist trail, we were entertained by
some local singers who were very amusing.
We sailed Flinesse round to Prickly Bay, which
marked the most southerly point in our journey. From there we took an organised
tour of the Island of Spices. We all swam in the pool of the Concord Waterfall,
Terry and Andrew even venturing under the cascade itself. After that we visited
a spice plantation where we learnt about the locally grown spices - cinnamon,
cloves, nutmeg and mace.We also went to a nutmeg processing " factory", where we
saw thousands of nutmegs being dried and sorted. The drive back through the
mountains was beautiful and we saw cocoa pods, bananas and nutmegs growing by
the roadside; Letouche, our guide even dug up a turmeric root ( which is called
saffron here) and is used with rice.
It was time to leave Grenada with the start of a
large gamefishing competition with lots of big and very noisy boats and all the
marinas very rammed.
En route, we visited the small islands of
Carriacou, Union Island, Canouan and Bequia, before setting course for St
Vincent.
Andrew has now left us to return to a wintry
UK and so it will be just the two of us for now until
friends join us in the Virgin Islands in April.
We plan to sail slowly up the coast of St Vincent
before crossing back to St Lucia and on to Martinique.
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