Weekend activities

My brother and sister-in-law are in Grenada visiting us since last week sunday. As we didn't have much time to visit throughout the week, we spent the weekend with a rented car touring the island. One of our first stops was to the farm of Hugh Currie, a Canadian farming in Grenada. He has developed an extensive fruit farm and he allowed us to walk around the farm and eat ourselves silly. We were some tired sticky people, but man did we have happy mouths and stomachs. No chances of scurvy here! I think everyone's favourite was the kingfruit (also known as uglyfruit) which had a delicious lemony flavour, sort of like a cross between a sweet navel orange and a lemon.

Needing to clean up we headed off to Bathway beach (after a brief stop at a sulpher spring. There's a reason there are no pictures of it here.) Don and Jay went for a swim while Ang and I tried to have a nap on the beach. The rain sent us scurrying back to the car after a while and we headed back to their hotel in Grand Anse for a much needed meal and sleep. I think we tired them out on friday!

Saturday we went to the southern part of the island, an area that Jason and I have not really seen until now. We tried to find the La Sagesse Nature Reserve, and although we found the hotel and a chinese run greenhouse, we couldn't figure out where the 'nature reserve' part came in. Nonetheless we had a lovely walk on the beach and on the rocks, and later drove the car up on top of a tall ridge where we had a fabulous view of the Atlantic.


Is there any question which direction the prevailing winds are coming from?


Sunday we packed don and ang's bags into the car and headed into the interior. From this view point in Grand Etang you can see all the way to the southern tip of the island. We had a nice hike down to seven sisters falls where Jason and Don climbed up to jump down 6 waterfalls. Ang and I went for a swim at the base of the biggest fall. Afterwards we unpacked our picnic lunch and had a nice meal. Then we went to try and find the honeymoon falls. We found some falls, but never found out if they were in fact the ones we were searching for! On the way back to Gouyave we took another road through the interior where we passed by many banana plantations and other farms. We stopped to let Jason and Don talk to a farmer who was planting papayas for the regional market. After a while Ang and I were able to drag them away and we made it back to Gouyave. We got them settled in their house and made a simple supper after which we let them get some well deserved rest.

Next weekend we are off to Carriacou so ta ta for now!

Kristy

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