There are two country capitals that I am aware of that have an apostrophe in them. One of them is St. George’s – the capital of Grenada. There are other capitals that have the quote mark – like Sa’ana or N’djamena or Nuku’alofa – but that is because there is a special way of pronouncing them locally. Why the posessive noun?

Finally, I have found the answer!

Turns out Grenada has seven parishes – St. Andrew, St. John, St. George, etc… In the early days, there would always be one important city – usually a port – in the parish where most business would be conducted. That city, usually, would be referred to as the “city of that particular parish”… in other words… St. George’s, St. John’s, or St. Andrew’s. Each parish in Grenada follows that rule.

Checked out Antigua and Barbuda. Sure enough… There is the St. John parish, which has the capital, called St. John’s!

That was not to be!

But the moment we threw some crumbs into the water, literally, schools of koi came over to fight for them! The video looks better than the picture. The shine off the water surface makes it very difficult to see.

From the picture, it is not evident, but if you stand by the shore of this 36-acre lake and look around, you will see that you are surrounded by high hills on all sides. That is when you realize that you are looking at a crater lake! This was formed about 12,000 years ago.