Grenada

So continuing on what we did in Grenada...

On Tuesday I kind of just hung out on the beach all day. Nothing too exciting but very relaxing. Got to have some cocktails, read my book and sit by the crystal clear blue water.

My stuff on the beach by our hotel. All alone. 

Quiet morning on the beach

No one anywhere

Perfect place to read a book

Pretty blue water and a palm tree

Grenada is the Spice Island so even my pina colada had spices in it.

On Tuesday I got to go snorkeling at the underwater sculpture museum. It was really cool. The statues were placed in between coral so it felt almost like you were going down a hallway like you would at a museum, except the walls were made of coral. I went with Cat and Erin who were both scuba diving. We got to see lots of cool fish and a really big sting ray. It was probably one of the coolest things I did all week and I don't think there are adequate words to describe how awesome it was. 

Grand Anse Beach from the boat

Cat, Erin and our guide checking out what the plaques at the bottom of the statues say

Cat diving with the circle of statues in the back

Kind of hard to see, but that's a huge stingray hiding between the coral. He's a little covered in sand.

I like to ride my bicycle.

This part was kind of creepy, the statues looked almost like dead bodies because they were all laying down.

Another statue circle

At one point all the divers were too far down for me to see. I just followed their bubbles around. It looked really pretty.

School of blue fish

The fish eat algae off the statues

Statue circle.

On Thursday we took a day long tour of the island. We got to go to some waterfalls, which I jumped in; saw wild monkeys, which i held; walked around a chocolate factory, which I ate; and took a tour of a rum distillery, then I took a shot. Overall it was a pretty good day. A LOT of driving though. It takes a long time to get around Grenada because of the rainforest and mountains; lots of curvy, steep roads.

Getting ready to jump in.

Taking the leap in.

Gorgeous place to take a dip.

View of Grenada from high up on a mountain.

Oh hi monkey.

Saliha feeding the monkey

Monkey up close

Wild monkey hanging out on my shoulder

Haha, monkey climbing on me.

Chocolate factory. Making organic chocolate.

Chocolate shop.

Pretty chocolate factory estate

It was nice to walk around there.

Sugar cane at the rum distillery. 

Really old machine that takes apart the sugar cane and separates the usable part.

Boiling the sugar cane to make rum. Clearly a really old distillery. 

Our guide explaining how this machine boils and evaporates the rum then re-condenses it into liquid

All heated by a wood stove

Needs lots and lots of wood. It was really cool. This distillery has been making rum since the late 1700s

How to make rum. 

Rum. Really strong rum. Too strong to be allowed on the plane. 

75%, couldn't take it on the plane. Did bring Dereek the strongest rum that was allowed on the plane. He took a full shot and was pretty shocked at how strong it was. It was really strong but tasted good as well.

Overall it was a really fun week. The trip home was a little bit miserable though. We had to fly from Grenada to Trinidad. Had an hour layover in Trinidad, then flew from Trinidad to Porlamar. Our flight out of there was delayed so we left at 11:30 at night instead of 9:30 to fly from Porlamar to Barcelona. Then we had the hour long drive from Barcelona to Anaco. It took about 12 hours to travel the 250 from St. Georges, Grenada to Barcelona, Venezuela. Quite annoying, but the rest of the trip was good.