Day 28 - Saturday 1st Feb - St Georges, Grenada

We've had a day at sea, and now we are here, in the Caribbean, hot sun, blue skies, white beaches and all day to enjoy it.
The first island of our four days here is Grenada.  Peter and I have been here before, and since we don't have any tours to escort, we get to do what we like.  And what we wanted to do was have an afternoon on the beach, swimming and generally chilling out.

That's our beach ahead.

So directly off the ship, through the terminal and turn right to where the water taxi is ready and waiting to take you to the .  It's only a few dollars each and a 15 min ride around the corner.

Once we were there, we hired a couple of loungers, got a couple of drinks from the bar, and then just had a brilliant afternoon.  We swam, sunbathed and snorkelled.  I loved the snorkelling part, especially has I found a shoal of silver white fish near the pier.  They just kept swimming around me.  Seeing the crabs and the spiny sea urchins, and so many different types and colours of fish amongst the seaweed on the sea floor was my idea of heaven.   I could have stayed for days.

But eventually it was time to go back, so we caught the water taxi back and got caught up in the dismay of four of the crew.  They were late for their shift, but the water taxi wasn't going to go any faster.  They were off the little boat before it even docked, running as fast as they could to get back to the ship.  I hope they didn't get into too much bother.

Our plan now was to go back to the ship for a quick shower and a change, and then go back into town and find a nice restaurant for our evening meal.  We had one in mind, Sails.  Sadly, everyone else had the same mind, and when we got there it was fully booked for the evening.

So we tried a place called Nutmeg, encouraged in by a few of the Marco Polo staff who were already sitting at a table.  What a disaster!  1 person had about 90 mins between starter and main course, another got her starter and main course at the same time, (but at different times to the first person), and everyone was made to wait.  Not recommended.

After the meal, we returned to the ship, and shortly after that I began to feel very unwell.  Unfortunately, I'd caught the bug that's being going around the ship.  We had to notify the medical centre, and were subsequently confined to the cabin for the next 48 hrs.  We were going to miss the next two Caribbean islands, which I had really been looking forward to.  Peter was absolutely fine, and I learnt although the bug could be considered highly contagious, not everyone gets it, probably due to their immune system.  I also learnt that the incubation period is up to 48 hrs.  I could have caught it two days ago!

So, disappointingly, we had two days in the cabin when everyone else was enjoying the sun, beach and rum punch.  Then we'll be in Bridgetown, Barbados, which will be my last day with the Marco Polo.  Sadly, I have to fly home and go back to work.  I'm not looking forward to that.

St Geroges, Grenada 2012
St Georges, Grenada 2013