Grenada

Destination Dreamin’ – Grenada

/ Ben Starling / Leave a comment
Photo by: nicobilou
Sharon Bernstein, speaking at the Cruising Association’s recent Blue Water Seminar, described all the advantages of including Grenada on your next passage to the Caribbean. 
Of course I ordered the Can Opener to write all this information down – double-time quick and with absolute precision. Grenadian fish are legendary! It’s definitely on our long term horizon…


Great Reasons to visit Grenada
best known for
  • diving: the highest density of scuba-interesting wrecks – it’s the dive capital of the Eastern Caribbean with more than 50 dive sites
  • spices: one of the five top producers of nutmeg in the world
  • excellence: has the highest number of Olympic medals per capita after the 2012 London Games (it’s population is only 109,000… and they are very proud of men’s 400 meter sprint runner, Kirani James!)

history

  • beautiful petroglyphs
  • historical forts
  • picturesque St George’s, the capital city, with Georgian architecture (of course!), old forts overlooking the city and a spice market
  • rum factories!
festivals and landmarks
  • carnivals
  • yachting regattas – especially at the end of January
  • ecotours
  • romance: they are about to launch an ‘underwater marriage ceremony’ option!
  • it has the world’s largest underwater sculpture park (?!?!!)

…aaaaaaaand they produce vegan chocolate – that does NOT melt on boats without refridgeration!!


We love it all! Grenada’s on our list…
–Captain Cat 
(transcribed by the Can Opener)