Palma's Place

Grenada & Carriacou Photo Galleries

I have assembled four galleries of photos from this trip, enjoy them.  I shot these pictures using my now retired Canon AE-1 Program film SLR (I know this seems so retro now, but hey), the images were scanned by the photo processor.

Views of St. George's  This is the main town of Grenada, and dates back to 1650.  Columbus first sighted the island in 1498.  Attempts by English colonists to settle the island were thwarted by Carib indians, who had migrated to the island from South America.   The French later purchased the island from the English and conquered the Caribs.  They established St. George's in 1650 and built Fort George in 1705.  England recieved the island from the French as a result of the treaty that settled the Seven Years War (French and Indian War).  I took the pictures in this gallery from Fort George.  Besides being a great vantage point to take in St. George's, its still in active use, as a headquarters for the Royal Grenada Police Force.  At the fort, members of Maurice Bishop's communist government were executed by an extremist faction of the government  who had staged a coup and killed the popular Bishop.  These events eventually led to the US invasion in 1983.  So not only did the US step in to end a coup of a communist government, but let to Grenada's Thanksgiving Day, commemorating the US invasion.  The photos take in a sweep of St. Georges.  Only if the canons still worked, we could have beat of the invasion of the cruise ships.  One of the photos looks out on the bay and the main beach of Grand Anse Bay. 

Views from Fort Frederick  In this gallery are photos taken from Fort Frederick, built by the French, overlooks St. George's and is located in the hills east of town.  Nearby is the Governor's house.  The photos take in the the town and the south west coast line.  There are also a couple shots looking southeast and then of the mountains that run down the middle of the island.

Photos from a tour of the island  One day I hired a guide, and we drove around the island.  We took in a cocoa plantation (you can see the drying sheds).  Also grown on the plantation is coffee and nutmeg, from which the Grenada gets its nickname, the Spice Isle.  Grenada is the primary source for nutmeg in the western hemisphere.  It was brought here by the French, from what is now Indonesia.  We also visited some of the waterfalls that the island is famous for.  Then on the northern coast, at Sauteurs, we visited Caribs' Leap.  From this location, Carib indians leapt to their deaths from the cliffs to escape the French colonists.  Its now a grave yard for the town.  We next went by Lavera Pond on the northeast coast and then on to a nearby rum distillery. 

Carriacou  These pictures are from a small island north of Grenada where I stayed for a week in a rented house.  There are pictures of my sun deck and pool, the view of the ocean, the road leading from the house, and the bus stop at the junction with the main road on the island.  I had rented a jeep and one day I explored the island, stopping at an old wind mill, before heading out to the east coast.  I also visited Hospital Hill to get some great vista shots of the island and Hillsborough, the main town on the island.  I also got shots of these two guys, who were visiting a friend at the hospital.  There are also shots taken from the ferry that serves the island and docks at Hillsborough.