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View from the Little Dipper restaurant of Hog Island anchorage
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Marina from Little Dipper. MoonSail's mast is right in line with the center of the round building
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Who needs a pole when they just jump on the dock?
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The marina bar at night from our dock
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Chef Dave cooking burgers
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Local pan player
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Saturday the local dog heard there was food
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Basket weaver on beach
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Bird woven from palm frond
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What you can't tell from this angle is there is a huge wave coming behind me.
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The beach babes
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Entrance to Ft. Frederick built in 1791.
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Most of the builings in this picture are the prison grounds, including the outbuildings where they farm.
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Looking inland from Ft. Frederick
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St. Georges lagoon and Carenage from Ft. Frederick
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Intact military headquarters and destroyed insane asylum
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Crotants grow wild everywhere
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Bird of Paradise
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After a shower
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Papaya flower and fruit
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Who knew that evn sugar cane flowers?
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Remnants of Oct 25 1983 US invasion
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Remains of church and cemetery after Ivan
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Tour guide Cutty
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Sign on bar
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Annadale Falls
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Guy about to jump from atop Annadale Falls
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About to hit the water
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Monkey at Grand Etang Rainforest
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Didn't need to take a long shot. They're very tame
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Doing tricks with Cutty
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Doing tricks with me
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Done with the tourists
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Nutmeg tree
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You can still see the damage done to the rainforest by Ivan in 2004.
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Old airport. Plane on left was Maurice Bishop's. Plane on right was cargo.
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Driving across old runway
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Janet House
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Sugar cane stalks enter crusher
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Cane get crushed and dry stalks come out
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Dry stalks are taken out in wagon on rails
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Did I mention wagon was rickity?
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Overflowing pile of dry stalks
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Track the cart runs on
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Original water wheel still drives the crusher
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Cane juice coming out bottom of crusher
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Cane juice flows to boiling room to be concentrated. Nasty looking.
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Boiling pots
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Fermentation tanks - even nastier
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The still
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Several stages of distilling
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Last stages of distilling
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Fire under the still
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The process in a nutshell
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Bottling by hand
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Capping sort of by hand
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Daily record keeping
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Testing the strength of the rum as it comes out of the still
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East side of Grenada looking north over Atlantic towards Carriacou and The Grenadines
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Old church damaged by Ivan
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Grenville Bay from south of town
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Catholic church being rebuilt
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Where does this road go?
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Another damaged church in St. Davids
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Beach at La Sargesse
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Dave & Sue at La Sargesse
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Relocated squatters homes from St Georges lagoon development
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Cutty's liming spot
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Under the counter rum
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Notice the bare green wire
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Amazing the sympathy you can get from a little cut
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