The View from Hill Fort

In the morning we walk the winding concrete road over to Ashton. By the Clifton schools and the Ashton schools, kids running, sykling, dragging their feet,home for lunch, in their wintery school uniforms. Only it's hot here in the winter. We pass the medical clinic, St. Joseph's Catholic Church, and a few other churches. The grass along the road is mowed and planted as we approach Ashton. Christmas lights hang across the main street. There are a few big houses, but mostly tiny cement ones, a lot of them with their front doors adorned with round Coke and Pepsi signs. They are bars or small "supermarkets". The landscape here is hilly. The volcanic past is visible in the steep pinnacles rising out of the greenery. The Grenadines' highest is here at Union Island.
Back in Clifton we get a good but skimpy meal at The West Indies Restaurant. Then time for another hike.
This time up to the Hill Fort (400M). What a view! In the bay all the coral reefs and sand are as clear as an Admiralty chart. Which they aren't from down in a sailboat. The other nearby islands, Palm, Mayreau, the Tobvago Cays, are close enough to count the sailboat masts in the bays. And we plan our "getaway" towards Tobago. Only I'll have to come up here again before we leave, with a camera!