2011 October Last few months in Grenada

We have been very lucky and both the Cpt's sister and Mother have paid us a visit!

you know how it is, when you have someone to show around you end up seeing, doing and tasting more...

Sorrel. It looks like something that should go in a potpouri jar

Sorrel Juice. Homemade

Once we had boiled for ages and a boatload of sugar has been added, the Sorrel made quite a refreshing drink. It tastes like a fresh lemonade but more sweet and sour in the Thai cooking sense than in the lemon and sugar sense.

Grand Anse Beach

Finding a Sand Dollar on the barren Grand Anse Seabed

I know it looks like a swimming pool with a sandy bottem but this is what the Grand Anse sea is like. Amazingly enough though, every time we swim there we see something new and rather different. This time it was a ginormous sand dollar, the time before it was a flying gernard (will try find the pic) which 'walks' along the sea floor using its foot like fins to flip things over and dig under the sand

Another picture of the sand dollar. Trying to prove that it was actually taken underwater

Cinups (or Skinups as we've been calling them)

For less than the change in the bottom of your purse (which is usually quite a lot in mine anyway), about 3EC, you can get a branch full of Cinups. These have a skin which looks and feels citrusy but if you bite it it pops open like a leetchie skin. Then the inside is fleshy, again like a leechy (maybe i'll guess the spelling eventually) but the pip is bigger and the flesh leaves a sort of dry feeling in your mouth. You also dont bite the flesh off like a litchie but suck it and scrape it with your teeth. Very yummy! One of the favourites i'll miss most

View from Fort Judy peninsular

If you walk to the end of the peninsular that our house is on, then push through some cactus plants and thorn bushes, following a slightly precarious goat path, you can get close close to the edge where (as in this photo) you can see how the sea is carving the land away, from the bottom up, leaving some quite spectacular overhangs.

Westerhall Post Office

This is where your postcards are sent from. Now do you still wonder why they haven't all made it?

Jack Fruit

No one was really sure about this fruit. It is not widely grown in Grenada and the only one we saw (this one) was on Belmont Estate and our guide tasted it for the first time with us. It is quite squidgy when ripe with a soft fleshy inside which contrasts its very spikey outside. Quite Yum! Sort of a creamy sweet flavour and in my opinion, worth promoting the cultivation there of.

The neverending battle with the NoSeeUms (Sandflies)

The Captain finally believed me about there ferocity...

Fort Judy. The sea on the North side

The view just before our house

Desperate for coffee

We changed the gas system for the boat, purchasing these awesome fiberglass gas bottles which are bigger, dont rust and if they ever catch alight, wont explode but will slowly release the gas over a 5 hour period. But the connection system to the boat had to change. So no gas for coffee. No Probs. We'll just use the blowtorch that actually is used as a flambe thingy for caramelizing sugar... And you thought i was joking when i said we dont have anything in the galley that is used for 1 thing only