http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Saint-George/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Central America Caribbean , Grenada , Saint George en-us Sat, 18 May 2013 10:24:57 +0000 Sat, 18 May 2013 10:24:57 +0000 ltstrong stylemsobidifontweight normalgtGrenadaAfter a longish sail we arrived just as night was falling into Prickly Bay Grenada. Yet did we know this would be our home for nearly three weeks As we manoeuvred through the many boats we set the anchor and took our first glimpse of The Bensons Tina Nick Ollie and Ted a Devon based family who we met a few years ago while watching ou http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Saint-George/blog-771703.html 25.4.2012 Dinner last night in Cosmopolitan Restaurant fantastic john had steak and I had osso bucco dined alone as Blake and Suzi had early dive so went to dinner very early.ltspangt We went to the 9.00p.m.show in the theatre and that was very colourful and music was great the shows have been a lot of fun.ltspangt Docked in St Georges 8.00a.m. very mountainous the streets http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Saint-George/blog-712991.html This coming day was all about nature. We started out from the harbour of St. George39s the capital and went into the mountains to see some fantastic wildlife. Grenada is a very green and beautiful island and the flowers are impressive see photos. At a farm we learned about cacoa and how they are harvested. We drove all the way to Gouyave the second biggest city of the island to visit a nutm http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Saint-George/blog-674851.html Well what a slacky I have been here we are sitting in the True Blue Marina in the suburb of True Blue No Australian association that I can find of and getting ready to set sail tomorrow for the Venezualan Island of Los Roques and thus ending our time in the Caribbean. We have been here over a month already and while I had all good intentions of blogging more regularly a couple of things got i http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Saint-George/blog-468481.html Nous nous promenons de baie en baie au rythme de la temprature. Quand a devient trop rouleur dans Prickly Bay nous allons dans une autre baie mieux abrite. Lors dun sjour dans Egmont Bay nous avons dcouvert que la marina du Phare Bleu tait 15minutes de marche. Nous en avons profit pour aller voir un spectacle de Blues.Mais nous ne devons pas oublier que nous vivons sur un ba http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Saint-George/blog-448699.html Dj octobreJe viens de raliser que nous sommes le 5 octobre. Il sest coul presquun mois depuis notre dernire entre sur le blog. Il faut dire que nous avons t plutt occups. Nous avons travaill avec la mto i.e. quand il faisait beau nous revernissions le liston et quand il pleuvait nous travaillions lintrieur.Avant dentreprendre les travaux nous avo http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Saint-George/blog-442616.html Luckily we got to Grenada in time for Carnival Spice Mas 2009 yohoo Every island has Carnival at different times throughout the year and we were super excited to go to this one. Grenadas Carnival is unique and we have heard tons of fabulous tales about past years from other cruisers. It is one of the few islands in the Caribbean that still use paint on JOuvert morning the only island http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Saint-George/blog-441241.html Maintenant que nous sommes rendus Grenade je vais encore une fois changer le style des comptesrendus des nos activits. Plutt que de dcrire de faon chronologique je vais essayer de fonctionner par thme je ne garantie pas cependant de pouvoir maintenir cette faon de faire. Essayons toujours Commenons par une visite touristique rapide de lensemble du pays tout dabord s http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Saint-George/blog-429863.html We arrived yesterday morning on time and without incident. At home our cat Tigger went into hiding when he realized we were going away. From previous experience we knew he would be hiding under our bed. We managed to peel him off the carpet. Imagen the combined strenght of cat claws and velcro Althought Shauna is a seasoned taveller she had a novel experience at YYZ. A random body search incl http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Saint-George/blog-387028.html Day 9 Tobago Cays St Vincent March 13 ContinuedWayne made it back to the boat and changed out of his camouflaged shorts before he was arrested as an insurgent gorilla. Karen will not need to mortgage the farm to bail her husband out of jail. We successfully checked back into Grenada so we are legally in that country once again.We had dinner of barracuda and curry chicken at a beach rest http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Saint-George/blog-382386.html We hiked to a waterfall watched a cricket match and saw Mona monkeys in Grenada with friends from the sailing vessels Sojourn Magic and Daniel Story. http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Saint-George/blog-301402.html Jeris and Maribel went to the Carenage by Dinghy and walked up the mountain steep to the open market yesterday. Found several new stores. You know women they can shop till they are dead. Jeris baked a cake for Maribel's birthday very tasty. Maribel cooked a nice dinner in the process burnt her left arm when taking out a pot from underneath the oven. Boats aren't they fun.Pete has dinghied thes http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Saint-George/blog-235892.html We also had our burger night last night. For my son in law Brian a couple of special ones since he is the musician in the family. We were serenaded by a steel drum player. Burgers were good real tomatoes this time. There had been a shortage of tomatoes for a few weeks. We found anon or as they call it here Sugar Apple today will take some pics of the fruit and veggies we bought sometime. We to http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Grenada/Saint-George/blog-227330.html