Flying in to Montego Bay

Lothlorien, University Crescent, Kingston
Home for a year

Lothlorien back garden (with breadfruit)

Lothlorien, bottom of garden
Looking towards the mountains

Harvey & Samwise, garden at Lothlorien

Sue in garden at Lothlorien

Sue & Samwise, Lothlorien

Sue at the Barclay Club, Kingston

Graham & Sue, Boston Beach

Picnic on the beach at Old Pera
Graham, Liz, Sue, Willie

Morgan's Harbour Beach Club, Kingston

Kingston from the Palisadoes

Kingston Harbour

"The Office"
Duke Street, Kingston

Racial graffiti 
Hope Road, Kingston
(The full advice to whites is "don't fight"  

Spanish Court Plaza, Kingston
(Built in 1798 on Beacon Hill.  The original shingles on the dome were replaced by copper, coated with gold.)

 Kingston from Jack's Hill

Sunset over Kingston
from Beverly Hills

Newcastle
Old hill station, 4,000 feet above Kingston

Newcastle
Regimental Insignia

Sue, with orchid,
in the hills near Newcastle

Weekend Retreat
Sue at Hardwar Gap

Blue Mountains
from Hardwar Gap

Harvey & Sue
looking for the road near Hardwar Gap

Harvey & Sue
panning for gold at Hagley Gap
(note the road surface!)

Harvey on audit at Hope Bay
waiting for the station master to arrive 
so that I could count his cash
(It was a surprise inspection)

Charley, Sue & Harvey
On audit in Belize

Fort George Hotel, Belize
Two weeks R  & R for Sue while Charley and I worked 

Charley, Sue & Teddy (the client)
Day trip to Mexico

Paul Bogle 
in front of The Court House, Morant Bay
(Bogle was a Baptist deacon who led a rebellion against the British in 1865.  He was executed and is now feted as a National Hero)

Harvey & Ken, Aligator Pond
(we went looking, but we didn't see any)

Harvey in Cockpit Country
Near Aenon Town
(Jungle-clad Karst hills make the region almost inaccessible, an ideal refuge for runaway slaves who formed their own community known as The Maroons.  The British gave up hunting them down and signed a peace treaty with them in 1738.  We visited, but first had to seek permission from the Maroon Leader.) 

Country shop

Goat near Chinchon
(destined for the curry pot?)

Blossom

Blossom

Road Kill
(vultures are known as John Crows)

Personal mail boxes

Harvey at old sugar mill, near Montego Bay

Sugar cane transport near May Pen

Lighthouse at Negril

Conch shells, Negril
(Broken for the meat and then discarded)

Harvey at the creek where part of Dr No was filmed
(No, it really isn't Sean Connery)

Harvey at Green Bay

Bauxite lake, Mount Diablo

Roadside food stalls, Mount Diablo

Cricket match, Caribbean style
(Near Spaldings)

Election Rally

Bonnie View, Portland

Sue in front of The Folly, Portland
(Built in 1905 by a retired mining engineer for his wife, the Tiffany heiress Annie.  The legend is that he mixed his mortar with sea water and the salt caused the house to crumble)

Blue Hole, Portland

Storm clouds over the Palisadoes

Sue, Graham & Liz
"The Giddy House" Port Royal
(left at a crazy angle after an earthquake)

Memorial to a victim/survivor of an earlier earthquake
Port Royal

Near Frankfield

Near Morant Bay

Water carriers
Near May Pen

Sue & Liz
with banana vendor

Near Portland

Going to church
Near Content Gap