We bought a tour from shore excursions.  We met the guide inside the mall. There were nine people on our island spice tour.  The tiny bus that we boarded was parked in the super busy lot near the terminal.  It took us about ten minutes to get out of our parking space.  It was crazy.  I was so happy that I didn’t have to drive there. 

We drove through the city of Saint George (where we were docked) and it was so busy.  There was a lot of traffic.  As we got out of the city and traveled next to the coast it was much calmer.  The views were beautiful.  The road we took up to the waterfall was tiny and quite rough. They were working on it, though.  

You could walk down to the waterfall or just take pictures from the balcony area.  They had a couple of small shops, a bathroom, and some monkeys in cages.  My husband checked out the monkeys and one attempted to pee on another and almost got my husband instead. I was busy checking out the local spices in the shop. 

They had all kinds of different jams to taste as well as rum punch.  One of the employees poured us a mini cup and it had a neat after taste of different spices.  Grenada is well known for nutmeg. They also had local cinnamon, so I bought a bunch of sticks, and cocoa balls to make hot chocolate.  She gave me the nutmeg for free.  You have to crack it open and then grate it.  All of it cost about $16.

After the waterfalls, we went back down the mountain and headed for a farm.  The farm in question was on the side of the road.  Our guide knew the owner.  He showed us the nutmeg tree with lots of nutmegs on it. 

He opened up the fruit part and took out the seed, which had a reddish film on it.  He peeled that off and then cracked the nut for us to smell. 

He also showed us an all spice tree and had us smell the leaves. 

The cinnamon tree has to be chopped down to harvest the cinnamon.  He took a branch and had us smell It.  I had a small green stem and it smelled very strongly of cinnamon. 

There was a giant clove tree, but it didn’t have any fruit yet. 

There were also cacao trees. 

He picked a cacao pod and broke it open for us.  He said that we should try to seed with the white stuff on it. (When they process the cacao they dry out this part and dry the seed inside for the chocolate.) I was the only person to volunteer to taste the seed.  He warned me not to bite it because the seed is bitter, but just suck on it.  It tasted like citrus, maybe papaya.  It was very interesting.  I spit it out afterward.  

There were also grapefruit trees. 

And orange trees which were not ripe either. 

There were some beautiful flowers on his farm as well.  These red ones are very expensive in florist shops. 

The yellow ones are quite rare so it was cool to see a few. 

The guide stopped at a stand on the side of the road so we could all try bananas.  I can’t really explain what they tasted like exactly. There was a banana flavor, but it was also a bit sour.  He said they were very sweet, but that was not my impression.  I didn’t dislike them and would eat it again, but it was not a banana as I think of them. 

We saw some beautiful views on our drive, but I couldn’t really get pictures from the bus window. My husband did get this picture of our ship next to an MSC ship. 

Our last stop before heading to the ship was at this nature trail.  After stopping at the restroom, I came back to find everyone around this tree.  Apparently when they turn into moths, they are really huge and beautiful.  They were pretty creepy caterpillars to me. 

Our guide told us about the area and this lake is for drinking water, so you can’t swim in it. The whole area is for hiking.  There are monkeys in this part, but we didn’t see any.  

After we got back to the ship, we thought we would take a look at some shops. There is a mall connected to the port area and it was madness!  The lines to purchase items were the length of the store.  I decided I didn’t really need any souvenirs from Grenada because I bought some awesome spices.