Category: Jamaica Hidden Treasures
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Ashton Great House in St Elizabeth, Jamaica
Everyone loves a Great House with a cool history behind it. Unfortunately it’s nearly impossible to find information on this one since it closed to the public within the last two years, and since closing it appears its website has been taken down. Not even the Jamaica Tourist Board website has any worthwhile information. Ashton…
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Rocklands Bird Sanctuary
Not exactly somewhere over a rainbow but somewhere high up in the hills behind Montego Bay, near Anchovy, there’s a beautiful hidden treasure that a blog post can’t do any justice to. I’m not a bird watcher at all but I heard about this place years ago and even drove past the sign for…
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I Didn’t Make It To Alligator Pond
But I spent two days at the “Riva” I must thank my lucky stars that I meet the coolest people or I would never discover half the magic I find in Jamaica. I don’t usually start backwards and blog about the end of my trips first but I spent my final two days on…
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Going To Church In Jamaica
As if There’s Not Enough Heaven in Jamaica Already…. I have ALWAYS wanted to do this and I can’t believe that over nine years of traveling to Jamaica I haven’t once gone to church. Maybe it’s because I’ve never had such a gracious invitation until this year. The thought of going alone completely intimidated me…
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I Met A Sangster
Port Royal Bottles For Sale Two awesome things happened in one day a few weeks ago. #1 – I met a REAL Sangster, like from Sangsters Rum Cream. #2 – I saw and photographed actual bottles that were recovered from historical Port Royal – the part of it that’s under the sea. Like REAL buried…
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Blue Hole Waterfalls, Jamaica
Better Than Dunn’s River! I’ve been hearing about Blue Hole in St. Mary, Jamaica for years but had never made the journey to go find it. With some prompting from a fellow Canadian friend who was visiting me and also wanted to go we started out on a day trip from Montego Bay that turned…
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Jamaican High Grade Growing Wild!
I couldn’t wait to do this post from the minute I snapped these pictures! Jamaican high grade (marijuana) actually grows wild in the Blue Mountains! We checked into a guest house high up in the mountains a couple weeks ago and discovered through a little hike in the hills that marijuana up here just grows…
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Bathing in Milford Falls
The EARLY morning my rasta friend Demus came knocking on my door I felt like knocking him out! He showed up with a coffee in his hand and said “GET UP, we’re going to bathe in the river!” That sounded so unappealing to me this early but I put on my swimsuit and grabbed my…
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Jamaica Happy Home Recipe
This is one of my favorite things I’ve seen in Jamaica – the “Happy Home Recipe”. And it was hanging on the wall in one of the smallest board houses I’ve been in. It was such an example of what life is about, instead of material things and money. Things like this reassure me I’m…