Grand Etang, Fort George and Grand Anse beach sunsets

I'm going to finish uploading photos of Grenada tonight. It's tempting to put more and more photos on the blog, but enough's enough, there's a limit to how much I can go on, and there are more photos of plant fairs etc to put on here.
We took a minibus from St.George's to the Grand Etang lake in the forest reserve, the journey took about 25 minutes. We had an excellent driver but the road was very windy and rose steeply, I was very relieved to learn we'd arrived at the nearest point to the lake.
There are a few stalls near the information point in the house, and well signposted walks to the lookout points, around one of them was a sort of garden with lots of tree ferns growing well

and here's another one in silhouette

 and an epiphyte growing on the stem of a tree fern

 white flowers

 and by the lake there were a series of gazebos gifted to the government and people of Grenada by the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Grenada.

 There are Lima monkeys, originally from Ghana, they arrived on ships in the eighteenth century, this one appeared to be quite used to being fed bananas and posed for a few minutes.

It was more difficult to get a minibus back to St.George's, but we were picked up after about 25 minutes, once back we visited Fort George, well worth a visit and close enough to the centre of the town to make it easily accessible. It was built by the Frenchbetween 1705-1710, and suffered damage from hurricane Ivan in 2004, although this part of the fort seen below is fine apart from not having a roof.

 The views are spectacular, here are the gun emplacements

 these are British ones, with GR and a crown on them

 The cruise ships dock right by here

 Returning to Grand Anse beach in time for the sunset

Maybe this is the best photograph of all?

and then looking back it's quite light:

I love traveling on local minibuses, and the view you get from the bus

 here's the bus station snack bar

 Shoprite

 and a general street scene.

A couple more bird photo, this one's a heron:

 and this was a very splendid larger heron

 and a smaller bird than a grackle on our balcony

Near the Siesta Hotel, there was a shopping mall, there was an art gallery in there, and a small exhibition of work by Lisa Herrera, I liked this one called 'Fishes'. It's US$2800

 and here are the others. Anyone can apply to Saffron Cafe to buy paintings or have an exhibition there

OK onto the final photo, another sunset at Grand Anse beach on our last evening:

Wonderful sights, beautiful colours.