St George's, Grenada

 Sea Date, January 20, 2024

You all will be shocked to know that I decided to skip history or nature tours and just have some crazy fun today!  (There was some research basis for the day - Grenada is a top 10 yacht destination.)

I chartered a 42 foot catamaran for the day and invited 8 of our cruise friends to join us. The requirement for being invited:  no complaining, no being rude to tour guides, a go with the flow attitude, and fun! We had the perfect group for the perfect day.  

As soon as we hit land, we grabbed a taxi to the Grenada Yacht Club, and boarded Bacchanal for a fabulous day on and under the water.

Our first stop was to snorkel at the underwater sculpture garden.  There are dozens of 5 feet sculptures of people standing on the sea floor.  It was such an interesting sight and a bit eerie to see as we swam above. Lots of colorful fish.  My favorite was a small neon blue fish with white circles.  At the end, I saw black fish with a bright bluish/purplish border.  I knew this portended well for the game tonight.

Next off to another snorkeling site.  Not many fish but I did snorkel to the beach - a true hidden beach. Lunch was served on board. Alexandra, Karen and I decided to join our captain on a dinghy ride.  We jumped off and then we were pulled back hanging on to half a tube.  Lots of laughing, falling off, riding on top of one another and a little too much salt water swallowed. A little bit of fishing for Jim. A sail to see the coastline of Grenada - stunning island.

Perfect weather, a great crew, shade cover, a 5 minute rain storm, singing in a variety of languages, unending flow of rum punch, rose and beer, dinghy ride, fishing, swimming, snorkeling and FRIENDS.  What could be better. I will long have fond memories of this day.

And the perfect ending to a perfect day.  Ravens 34  Texans 10.


                                                Our merry crew gets a big send off.




                                                Grenada Yacht Harbor

    




                                                        View of Fort George?
    
                                                                St, George's

    
                                                      Fruit plate on board. Delicious bananas.

    
                                            HAL Zuiderdam on left, P&O Britannia on right

    
                                                        Elizabeth and Doug



    
                                                    Sheryl, Jan, Leon

    
                                                    Lydia, Karen, Jim, and Alexandra

    
                                                                Small tuna - thrown back in the sea.


                                
                                                Underwater sculptures.  Eerie.  Much clearer
                                                                        in person.




    
                                                     On the beach by myself

    
                                                A little bit of sun worshiping.

    
                                                Dinghy ride - Alexandra, Karen (Captain and Cathy)






    
                                                Hold on tight, it's Captain Karen!


    
                                                        Stunning water and cliffs.

    
                                                            Sandals Resort

    
                                                        Our Lookout







    
                                                        Thanks Arlene for the purple, black and white support!
                                                        Ravens 34   Texans 10






Comments

  1. AnonymousJanuary 22, 2024 at 3:40 AM

    Loved the day! I must admit I had way, way, way too many Rum Runners! I was definitely “Overserved”!

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 22, 2024 at 7:50 AM

    I know I would have qualified not sure about marky Mark LOL. As far as ravens well let's just say I wasn't too happy 😁

    ReplyDelete
  3. AnonymousJanuary 23, 2024 at 4:39 AM

    My kind of day....you can always read about history!

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