Intruiged by the name
Belair, we walked from Grand View Hotel up the steep road with glorious views of the island, getting better the higher we climbed. There had been no signs of the ruins from the sugar cane industry as we walked around Carriacou, although there are reportedly ruins at Dover, Grand Bay, Dumfires and Belmont.
If you click on the Belair link, it claims that these are the best preserved ruins of a windmill, seen below:
and looking up through the windmill
and another view
there are remains of two houses, this is the English one dating back to 1809,
the website shows this house, you can see the steps and windows still remain:
and here's the 'inside' of the house below. There are also older remains which are apparently of a house from the days when Carriacou was a French colony.
Right beside the windmill, beside the road, there's a cottage called
Two Oceans, here's the sign on the gate:
Hard to see from these photos, but you can see the Atlantic on one side, and the Caribbean Sea on the other. It's been for sale recently, so you can see much better photos by clicking on the link.
and the other side:
When you walk to the 'top' of Belair, there's a patch of unfenced land, and if you walk beside that, you reach Two Oceans cottage and the windmill. On the 'green' there were three plants not seen elsewhere on Carriacou. Possibly planted by English or French settlers
and this one with unusual beautiful crimson flowers
and then lastly a sort of Euphorbia maybe?
A very verdant, healthy looking plant
Anyone recognise these?
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