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Ninety seconds on Fort Scaur
Climb to the upper ramparts for the free public telescope, which looks over the Great Sound one way and sheltered Ely's Harbour the other. Entry is free and there is nothing staged: you come for the view.
Look for the Weather Stone, a lump of rock billed as a reliable barometer: its sign explains that if it is ever white on top, it is snowing. About nine hectares of garden and woodland surround the gun emplacements, and the moat runs from Ely's Harbour to the Great Sound.
The best bench in the park is at the tip of a grassy knoll on the Ely's Harbour side, so bring lunch and hope it is free. Kiskadees, monarch butterflies and lizards are common in the palmettos. Two steep paths drop east through the trees to the shoreline trail.
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