Belmont Estate

These are the coco beans and nutmegs drying on the racks at Belmont Estate. The coco beans are first fermented for 7 days before put out in the sun, which gived the coco beans there brown color. The red spice on the next rack over is mace, which is made from the outer shell of the nutmeg.

Grenada, The Spice Island

July 18th 2008
We have been sailing around the Grenadines, jumping from island to island and traveling back and forth. After our short stay in the Tobago Cays we went back up to Bequia for a reunion with S/V Verna Breeze- which was great fun! But then hurricane Bertha started forming and was going to create some nasty weather, so it was time to turn back and continue south again. We did a quick sail down to C ... read more

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One of the smallest independent countries in the western hemisphere, Grenada was seized by a Marxist military council on 19 October 1983. Six days later the island was invaded by US forces and those of six other Caribbean nations, which quickly captu... ... read more

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