Discover Grenada

135 square miles Highest point: Mt St Catherine, 2,757 feet

There’s a tale that Grand Etang, the crater lake perched high in the centre of Grenada, is bottomless. It’s not true, of course, but the hiking in the national park around the placid lake is worthy of legend, especially the trail to the summit of Mt Qua Qua — a six-mile round trip through elfin cloud forest, with a 360-degree view across the island from the summit. For birders, La Sagesse on the south coast is obligatory. This mangrove estuary with a nearby small salt pond and thorny scrub forest offers enough habitat diversity to attract one of the island’s most impressive concentrations of birdlife, especially waterfowl. At Grenada’s opposite end, Levera Beach is remote, windswept, wildly beautiful, and a major nesting site for endangered leatherback turtles, who come ashore at night during the annual nesting season (from March to August) to laboriously excavate the pits where they lay their eggs.

Teeming offshore reefs are among Grenada’s attractions for divers.

Photo by Hugh Whyte, courtesy Unsplash

Grenada’s Adelphi Waterfall is a short hike from the village of the same name.

Photo by Orlando Romain, courtesy Grenada Tourism Authority

Just large enough for a few trees, this rock off Grenada's coast is a green refuge among the 
endless blue.

Photo by Hugh Whyte, courtesy Unsplash