The Falls

Taken by Victoria Bastian

The Falls

For a week we had friends over.  Two different families came to spend four days each with us, and on the third day of the first family we went to the falls.

The falls are a good hours worth of hiking off of the road.  The day we went it had just rained so the trail was like a mudslide.  

When we got a bout halfway it started raining.  At first it was just a slight drizzle but, of course, we were in a rainforest so, as its name predicted, the slight drizzle turned into a full on rainstorm.  

To get to the falls you have to cross over two small creeks and one large stream.  About halfway across the stream, Jade fell hard on her bottom, her third fall of the day.  Once we reached the falls we realized that all the bumps and bruises we had endured on the hard journey over, was all worth it.

Taken by Victoria Bastian

In front of us were two falls with a pool apiece, ranging format least 20ft to over 50.  Each pool was refreshingly cool and felt amazing after 2 months of salt water.

Carnival

Carnival

Carnival is a big tradition in the native Grenadian culture.  Women and men, boys and girls, dress up in costumes and participate in a big parade.  Lots of people lined the streets and we were among them.

First came the group representing excitement:

Then came the group representing sadness:

Then came the group representing anger:

Then came the group representing pity, sadness and sympathy:

After that the kids came:

First pink:

Then blue:

Then green:

Then orange:

Then the boys:

Checkered white and black:

Then all together:

Grenada

We arrived in Grenada two days ago and since then we've been having lots of fun.  The first night we were here we went straight away to a little beach on Hog Island.  Many kids were already there because it was an off day for camp and most kids went to the beach.  We met two girls who were chartering a boat for eight weeks, but because they wanted to keep going on their adventure and not stay in one place for too long, they left the next day.

Yesterday morning we had computer work to do so we dinghy-ed over to The Phare Bleu Marina and worked over there.  After we got our work done we went swimming in the pool and had luch and lounged in the lounge chairs.  We got so distracted we were late for camp, so we had to hurry to get there and by the time we did they were already playing games.  

Camp is just a family that has  organized 3 weeks of kids camp and each day we do something different: on monday we did basic and long distance kayaking, yesterday we played beach games, today we're going to do some kayaking races, and tomorrow we will do Hobie-cat sailing.  Overall we just get to meet some of the other kids in the harbor and swim and play together on Hog Island.  The living creatures on Hog Island are a race of crabs, bugs, goats, and a cow, but there are many hidden trails and paths and mysterious little beaches with palm trees and mangroves.