Lots of Grenada

We took a tour of the island on August 8th.  We saw and learned so much.  This is a snip of what and where.

This is  one of the views from Ft. Frederick.  There is much history here.

View from Ft Frederick towards the north.

Mt. Carmel waterfall.   Our taxi driver Cutty and Diana from One White Tree are in the left corner.

Kirk checking out Mt Carmel waterfall.

Kirk making sure i was ok.

River Antoine Rum distillery.  Diana throwing sugar cane onto the conveyer belt that moves the cane to a press.  All of this is run from a redirected mountain stream pushing a watermill.

This is the other side of the cane press.  The sugar cane goes up the conveyor and then is smashed to get the juice out, which then runs in a trough over to the boiling building.  The waste stalks are then transported by a little railway car and dumped near the boiling room where they dry out and are then burned beneath the boiling vats.

The sugar cane syrup.  It is spoon ladled from tank to tank over progressively hotter fire underneath.

They are actually bottling the rum out of the igloo containers with several layers of cheesecloth bungeed around the top.  The "rum" is poured in from a bucket scooped from a big vat of fermented rum.  Wild.....  Farther down the table the bottles are capped with a capping machine.  Then another worker puts the rum in boxes and seals them with tape.

Ross of One White Tree and yours truly getting ready to sample the low test rum.  The 150 overproof version was smoother according to Kirk.

Chocolate processing.  Cocoa beans drying.  These big "trays" slide into the building in case of rain.  The little path is from the beans being "turned" by someone shuffling through the beans.

Cocao pod on the tree.  

  We were in the Grand Etang Rain Forest.  Cool eh?

Check out how long the tail is.

Was this monkey checking things out or what?  Notice, he is eating a banana.

Nutmeg on a tree.  The red is mace.  The nut is under the mace in a shell.

Beautiful palm fronds in the Rain Forest.

More beauty of the Rain Forest.

And the flowers go on and on and on.  This was on our walk to to Mr. Carmel waterfall.

Another view.  We were pretty high up in the Rain Forest.  We could look across to other mountains.

This is the morning after the island tour.  The widest rainbow I have ever seen.