Grenada Dora the Explorer style - Sauteurs and Belmont Estate

When my mother-in-law, Nancy, was here last week, we rented a car and drove all the way around the island following the coast.  The trip took about 6 hour in total, with stopping in Sauteurs, the Northern tip of the island, for lunch and at the Belmont Estate, where they manufacture chocolate, for a tour. 

Sauteurs, the Northern tip of Grenada

Sauteurs, an abandoned pier with abandoned cars (missing wheels, doors, etc)

Enjoying the scenery from the balcony at Helenas

The entrance to Helena's Restaurant and Bar, Sauteurs

Lunch: Chicken (which is widely debated...), rice and peas, boiled fruit, salad and fresh fruit juice

Same as above with fish (easily identified as fish) instead of chicken

 When asked what they had for dessert, we were presented with these plastic bags filled with frozen-something the waitress called "power." They were NOT tasty...

We later learned that "power" is a local Guiness and ice-cream concoction ...ICK

 The table next to ours was reserved...Nancy was hoping for Oprah (who owns property in Grenada) but instead it was an older couple on vacation from Chicago. Our table was not so swanky.

Welcome to the Belmont Estate...over 400 acres of cocoa, nutmeg and other fun things!

 I rang the over 300-year old bell at Belmont Estate...before the tour guide told me how old it was.

 Belmont also has animals.  This little guy was pretty cool.

  

 Workers sorting cocoa beans into bags, where they will be weighed and then will ferment in banana leaves, before being dried in the sun and used for chocolate...it smelled like vinegar, not chocolate.

Nancy buying as many coconuts as she could find from roadside stands