How I got to Jamaica...too.

[Accompong]

Loved loved loved your story! Thank you for writing down your memories.

I do trip reports when I can, mostly because I can look back at them to jump start my memories..

Although I rarely react to the trip reports I read here on this site, I do enjoy most of them. Why not do a trip report? As you say, "they can jump start your memories" and we all can use a little boost right now.

Thank you for your words of appreciation. By writing my memories down, it has me looking at the calendar and checking fares again.

Respect.

[Accompong]

Just a few more photos....
Out on Lime Cay, this shelter over a picnic table has seen better days...

Spending the day with "Hunter" Wint.

The Kingston Skyline looking back from Lime Cay

A look down from the verandah of Firefly with Port Maria and Cabarita Island in the distance.

My good and now departed friend Jah Mike Higgins.


Thank you.

[Accompong]

Here are a few from my adopted Jamaican hometown of Accompong Town St. Elizabeth taken during the January 6th Celebration of Cudjoe's Birthday.

Maroons from all over the World come home to Accompong Town for the Celebration. After a solemn ceremony over the graves of their ancestors, they climb the hill to the Kindah Tree to begin the Celebration.


Drumming and dancing to traditional songs plus the eating of unsalted pork, roosters and male yams as the traditional homage to those that came before and those that will come after begins.


At the appointed time, the procession marches from the Kindah Tree though town and down the hill only to return to the Parade Ground to finish the Celebration through the night.


A short video of the drumming and dancing.