2015-4-24  Grenada (8-5): Aquarium beach 

  Another new port for us.  Again I had researched places to go and saw there was an Underwater Sculpture Park.  But when we got to the port, we were told by the Tourist advisers that it was too far away. 

 So we took their suggestion as to where we should go and ended up at Aquarium Restaurant beach.

The waves were coming in pretty hard and we were doubting our snorkeling would be any good.  But with our fins and experience, we gave it a try.

The waves were really churning up the sand and visibility wasn't too good until we got about this far out.

Then we got to the good stuff.  Like this guy who I saw for the first time in St. Barth's

 There are lots of schools of Blue Tangs throughout the Caribbean

 Here was another large wrasse and lots of fan coral

 a pair of large butterflyfish

 Seemed the farther down the coast we went the better the snorkeling got.  We started by the tall rock near the right of the page.

 Even saw some Flamingo Dancer snails

 and yellow head wrasse

 The coral was healthy and varied.

 more kinds of coral

 even soft coral

 lots of schools of fish like these Jacks.

 Nice beach quite a ways down, too.  I think this is the beach I had thought we were going to, but the taxi driver said it was a much longer walk then to go to the beach by the Aquarium Restaurant.

After about 3 hours of snorkeling we went back to Aquarium.

 We could even see our ship from there.

 The Aquarium Restaurant has quite a view!

 We even decided to try the local brew---which was quite good.

 Then came the walk up the hill to where the taxi driver parked. 

Some views from the taxi on our way back to the ship.

 beautiful little town.

 historic old tunnel

 All too soon we were saying "Good Bye" to Grenada, the Spice Island.