Monday, Jan. 4, 2010

Grenada is called the Isle of Spice because it is the largest spice-producing island in the Western Hemisphere. Our tour guide told us that nutmeg is like gold to them. A storm two years ago destroyed a lot of spice plants though, and it is taking them awhile to grow new plants.	Grenada is about 133 square miles, with 27000 people living in St George's (the capital), so it is a lot more populated than Dominica.
	Here is Fort Frederick which was built by the French and then English. I am pretty sure that the guide told us the story of how the English captured it. All the guns in the fort were facing the sea, so the English snuck in over land from the opposite direction. After they took over the fort, the first thing they did was install some guns facing the land so no one could repeat their trick.
Fort Frederick has these amazing views in every direction.
We're on a beach, but we aren't swimming. This was a stop to buy spices from the island ladies. At breakfast that morning, we had met a woman who bought nutmeg here years ago. She said that it is a nut that you grate. She raved about how much tastier freshly grated nutmeg is (much better than what comes in the bottle).
	Here is Grand Etang Crater Lake. The lake is used for drinking water, so there is no swimming and fishing.
Stuff like this makes us so proud to be Americans.	These guys were really good. Lou had a beer, and Karen had a punch drink with nutmeg mixed in. It was surprisingly yummy.
We drove all over the island in this bus! We were in the back of the bus, so it took forever to get on and off.
This guy talked to Karen before he climbed up the cliff to jump, and then when he did jump, he yelled out Karen's name.  He was angling for a good tip! Actually the three guys who jumped all yelled Karen's name. It was cute at first then we could not get away fast enough.	This is Annandale Falls, which we reached by walking down a steep but really nicely paved path.
	Got a monkey on my back, man.

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