Browsing Year: 2022

Port Royal was founded by the French in 1649. It was conquered by the British in 1762, and they renamed the town “St George’s” in honour of King George III. St George’s is the capital of Grenada and a short drive from our airbnb. We spent a couple of hours exploring the small capital. Some […]

A 45 minute squiggly ride from home is Palm Tree Gardens. It was started as a hobby by Grenadian Lawrence Lambert, who collected plants on his travels and grew them on his 2-acre property. It is reputed to contain over 300 species of plants, and almost 40 types of palms. One fascinating thing was that […]

While we were at Grand Etang Park, we decided to do the hike to visit the Seven Sisters Falls (aka St. Margaret Falls).

We eventually found our way to Grand Etang Natural Park after the detour at Shodoo Falls. The park contains Grand Etang Lake (“Big Pond Lake”), which is a water-filled crater of a 12,000 year old extinct volcano.

On our drive to Grand Etang National Park, we got a bit off course. As we were driving over a bridge looking for a place to turn around, we looked over and spotted a waterfall, with a convenient area to park right beside it. We overhead a tour van driver say to his load of […]

For Christmas, Nolan chipped in with us to purchase a used drone from kijiji. He brought it to Grenada and was keen to try it out. Unfortunately, our airbnb is too close to the airport for him to fly there, so he asked to be taken to Fort Jeudy Point for drone flying.

One of the most popular beaches of Grenada is Grand Anse Beach. It’s 3 km of soft powdery beach, on the Caribbean side of the island. It was the first beach we visited, the day after we arrived in Grenada.

We were booked on the 10:15 AM to Grenada on Sunwing on Christmas Day, and a large snowstorm was predicted a couple of days before Dec 25. The weather cooperated, so we arrived at the airport the usual 3 hours prior to departure. For multiple trips now, we’ve been taking only carry-on, but due to […]