December 27 – St. George's, Grenada

Weather – 28º, sunny

Steps – 7,239

Humidity – 70%

This is our second visit to Grenada (pop. 114,000). Grenada is an island country in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea. It is English speaking and its main shopping streets reminded me a lot of Africa – small streets, tiny shops, stalls in the streets, lots of people. Grenada is not at all like and of the ABCs, not even Bonaire.

Our tour today was another dud. It was a dud because of expectations. The

good morning Grenada

original description we used when we signed up was very different from what was delivered, but what was delivered was exactly what the onboard description indicated.

kayaks in the background

I’m read the tour descriptions religiously and knew what the onboard one said but figured that since we weren’t told to disregard the original one, we thought that one would still apply. Nope…in the end, it was fine. We

sea urchins and sea moss

paddled around in a 2-person, glass bottom kayak, looking at very little through the glass. If it had been described as a morning of exercise in the Caribbean we would have been satisfied and happy. It significantly over promised and under delivered.

It was both Chris’ and my first time kayaking, so that was cool. We had a post workout rum punch and fruit tasting…also cool. We had a rustic, but charming place to chill after the workout. We were disappointed that we didn’t see any fish or much of anything under the water.

showing the moss

One of the guides found a few sea urchins and sea moss which they dry and make a drink out of.

There wasn’t much within walking distance of the port, so after the exercise, we stayed on the ship.

We sat on the balcony until the sun drove us to lunch.

back for lunch

In the afternoon we sat at the pool – spots weren’t hard to find as a lot of people were still on tour.

Dinner tonight was supposed to be at one of our 2 visits to the ship’s reservation required restaurants, Prime 7, the ship’s steak pit. Once we saw what would be on the main dining room's menu - chicken parm (Chris) and lamb curry (me) we swapped our reservations for another night. It was the right choice...both of these were very good.

good bye Granada

Many passengers look down on the ship’s main dining room and think the 2 reservation required places are better…they are wrong. In fact, you can get a

Grenada

great steak at the main dining room or even the Italian place. I think it’s the scarcity of reservations that falsely inflates the appeal of these places which are great, just no better than the main dining room.