Trellis Bay

In the last blog we mentioned the Full Moon Party at Trellis Bay that we decided not to go to. Well later that week we decided to walk over to Trellis Bay to see what it was like. The guide books mentioned that it was a one minute walk from the airport. We had noticed the road sign for it when we walked to the airport (to access an ATM) and thought it was probably more than a one minute walk. Road signs here don’t give mileage. We headed along the road from the airport and walked for about 5 minutes before we saw the buildings of Trellis Bay on our right. Looking to the left sure enough there was the airport terminal and a paved road that was probably one minute’s walk.

Trellis Bay is a unique little village. It reminded me of some of the artist villages on the islands off Vancouver Island. The main building was a pottery studio and a studio for steel sculpturing and of course the usual store for selling the artists’ wares.

We did see some evidence of the Full Moon Party – the steel sculptured balls used for the fireballs, some wooden replicas of the stilt dancers which were full size and some of the masks that we assume were used during the stage presentation.

I guess the full moon party would have been fun except the weather was rainy and you couldn’t see the moon and although we did attend the carnival in Grenada with thousands of other people and lots of loud music and crowd noise, we are still basically “stay on the boat at night” people so we were just as happy looking at the party trappings in the daylight and at our leisure .
Maybe when we get back to Canada we will start a tradition of at least one full moon party a year at the acreage. Wanna come????