MOUNT SAINT GEORGE AND FORT GRANBY

A few kilometres north of Scarborough, the Côte-au-Vents road climbs on Mount Saint George hill, the height of the island's former English capital, built in 1762 and defended by Fort Granby. This Fortin was built along with the city, on the small point overlooking the sea, just a few hundred metres from the hill. There is hardly anything left of this fort and the old English capital of the island. Destroyed by the French, Georgetown and its fort were never rebuilt, the British having preferred to make Scarborough their new capital. The anonymous tomb of a young soldier is today the only testimony of the conflict that pitted the two colonial powers on those heights of Georgetown.

The beach below the fort is surprisingly dark, consisting of dark volcanic sand. Here a small community of fishermen knows how to handle the!, the sailing boats.