In late 1968 I had been working at Wray and Nephew on contract and living in Kingston for a year or so. One of my crew (second mate as I recall) kept touting going over the West end of the Island. It so happened we had a week off and I really wanted to see something more of Jamaica that Town so off we went.
He had a cousin who's name you'd recognize who was a caretaker at a large private home on the beach. The owners were off the Island so we stayed at the house. I was taken with the beach and soon realized it was the same beach from "20,00 Leagues under the sea".
After that first visit I managed to get back several times by being invited to the West Indies Sugar Company retreat on the beach. A sprawling West indies/victorian building on the beach. It was there for the various executives and visitors that WISCo wanted to have a place to "unwind" The building is long gone but if those walls could talk………
By 1973 I decided to buy property over in the West but as you know I prefer the hills to the beach. I've seen enough of the Caribbean and beaches in my work so off to the hills I went
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