We have our first official excursion today. My choices are a lot more low key due to my limitations with shoulder surgery and my parents need easier these days. I gave them a list of excursions and let them pick. We are headed to a Coconut Farm with an Island Lunch. I had low expectations but knew it would just be nice to be off the ship and seeing how the locals lived. The drive was far and it seemed as if there was only one way to get to our stop. We arrived at the Coconut Adventures near the French Harbour.
We enjoyed a very informative and educational talk on all that coconuts had to offer. My dad was in heaven! Each tree will produce 175-200 coconuts a year. The flower is the long skinny thing you see in the photos above. A coconut has 3 faces and 3 sides. The coconut milk is used as a laxative and to help with menopause symptoms. They passed around samples of fresh coconut milk and people were afraid to try it because they stressed so many times how effective and quickly it would work.
At the end of the presentations we were served a local lunch of chicken cooked in coconut milk, rice & beans, and fried plantains with coconut lemonade. The meal was amazing!
As we drove back to the cruise port our guide was telling us about the local culture. I always find the information about education interesting. School is not required! Uniforms are required if you attend school. She told us most kids that do go to school stop going around 12 so they can work and earn money. I found this crazy. Most go work labor jobs and she said the craftmanship is awful. Of course it is when you have 12 year old uneducated kids doing the job. Electricity is very expensive and gasoline was $6 a gallon. Everyone on the island loves Bojangles . . . I've never eaten at one but there is one near me in a gas station.
It was back to the ship for a relaxing afternoon and sail away.
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