A Fun Day Trip – To Grenade Hall Forest & Signal Station
I started work real early on Monday, well it was early for me, it was 4am. The neighbours pesky rooster had once again woken me up and I couldn’t get back to sleep, so what could I do, apart from wake up and make good use of my time. As a result of my early start to my working day, I felt like I had earned an early finish, so I called it quits and stopped work at 1pm.
I felt like it was time to go and be a tourist for the afternoon, so we headed off to the Barbados Wildlife Reserve and Grenade Hall Forest and Signal Station. We had been to the Barbados Wildlife Reserve on a previous trip, but on that occasion we were not aware that you could also visit Grenade Hall Forest & Signal Station as part of your admission, In fact we never even knew about it. I suppose that could be blamed on the tour company, which we had paid to take us on there idea of an island tour, they didn’t even tell us Harrison’s Cave hadn’t reopened at that particular time.
I wont mention the Barbados Wildlife Reserve in this particular article because I feel it deserves it’s own space, as I have a serious issue with how they choose to run that part of their business!
So what is Grenade Hall Forest and Signal Station you may ask, unless you have been before, then you will know all about it! It is basically a 2 kilometres of coral pathways, which take you through a gully full of an amazing amount of different species of tree’s, shrubs, vines and herbs.
I found the walk along the paths fairly easy, even though there are some slightly steep hills and the paths are a wee bit slippery due to the climate, so you have to walk fairly carefully. If you are extremely unfit you may struggle a wee bit on this walk. There are various informative signposts along the path ways telling you about the huge variety of trees and plants. There is even a cave to go and explore but I wasn’t brave enough to into it without a torch.
The walk through the gully takes you in a loop back to the where you started. We then went up another wee hill and visited the Grenade Hall Signal Station. The signal station is a very important historic part of Barbadian history. It was built in 1819 as part of a group of signal stations all over the island. Signal stations were used to quickly relay information around the island, such as to warn of approaching ships or of slave rebellions.
My family and myself really enjoyed this adventure and getting the opportunity to experience some of the historic past of Barbados. I also enjoyed getting the opportunity to see the various different trees and plants of Barbados and learn about them and there importance. The negatives I would say about this trip is that there were some fallen trees blocking parts of the pathways and the audio system at the Signal Station wasn’t working. I also feel that the owners of this attraction could do more to make it an even better and more rewarding experience. They should possible look into doing group guided tours every hour or something along those lines.
So all in all, I would say that improvements could be made to Grenade Hall Forest & Signal Station, but that is a very worthwhile tourist attraction to go and visit. I would advise you to wear footwear that are good for walking in, if you ever visit Grenade Hall Forest & Signal Station.
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