Happy New Year, Grenada!
It was a real effort waking up early on this day. We stayed up late celebrating the arrival of the new year the night before with our fellow travelers on board.
Anyway, after having our usual breakfast buffet, we went out to one of the decks to have a good view of the island. We were pleasantly surprised to see locals playing music welcoming us to their island country with the typical Caribbean drums which I just love. I recall practically everything in the capital of St. George closed on this day. It was New Year's Day after all.
We joined fellow travelers from Seattle and Miami in hiring a local cab driver to tour us around the island. We did agree on a fee before setting out. Our driver was a nice middle aged local Grenadien who had once lived in Canada. He took us places we otherwise would not have been able to visit on our own given that all the sights were far from downtown.
Grenada on New Year's Day 1998
Calling from an English telephone booth right in downtown St. George.
Fort Frederick
At Fort Frederick
At the fabulous Grand Anse beach with its very blue waters
In front of St. George's Roman Catholic Cathedral
With a local selling spices
At the Grand Etang National Park
A hut which had writings on the wall thanking the US for helping Grenada last 1983 after Grenadien leader Maurice Bishop was killed and political turmoil engulfed the island nation.
A view of Fort George from the tender which took all the MS Tropicale passengers to the ship