The itinerary from Victor Emanuel Nature Tours.
Liza's Trip Journal
See also the web page for the Portland Bight Protected Area, Jamaica
Also the web page for the Old Tavern Coffee Estate
View from our room at the Emerald Escape Beach Resort, Reading district of Montego Bay
Robert watching the bay from our room
Robert on the little jetty at the EEBR
...and Liza out there, too
Robert
in the thatched gazebo
Robert with the main building of the EEBR in the background
Rockland's Bird Sanctuary, up the
road from Montego Bay
Red-billed streamertail
Jamaican mango
A grassquit in the hand is worth...
Feeding the hummingbirds at Rockland's (hard to tell, but there's a red-billed streamertail feeding from Brynne's (on the left) hand
Setting up feeders at Rockland's
Robert on the bus
The main residence at Marshall's Pen, near Mandeville, the group home for several days; the home is approx 200 years old
The garden at Marshall's Pen
Liza in the garden
Enjoying lunch at Marshall's Pen
Marshall's Pen
The guest house at Marshall's Pen, where Robert and I stayed; formerly it was a coffee storage building retrofitted to have comfortable guest rooms
Brandon Hay, conservationist and our in-country guide, with Ann Sutton, owner of Marshall's Pen
...and the gate to what Liza affectionately called the sand-tick trail (no, we didn't really get bit)
Jamaican oriole
Jamaican tody
Fearless leaders Brandon and Brennan
Breakfast on the road...literally
Eating breakfast while
watching birds
Birders on a trail
A roadside fruit stand
Ok, why can't you shoot on gun club property? Are they anti-gun?
In search of the Bahama Mockingbird (yes we saw him)
Clapper rail (yes, he's really in there ...take a closer look)
Old milestone in the Blue Mountains (they're metric now?)
Robert at the Starlight Chalet, in the Blue Mountains, where we had an excellent lunch
Coffee in the Blue Mountains - i.e. real Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee!
All possible jokes aside, this was a restaurant serving jerk chicken, jerk pork, etc.; for more on jerk, click here!
Another restaurant...
The bread sticks (I forgot the name) were similar to hush puppies
Sign over the jerk centre entrance...
Jerk still-life...jerk pork, chicken, yams (african), and the bread sticks...and of course, Red Stripe beer to wash it down!
Happy eaters
The semi-outdoor cooking area, here are the yams...
...and here's the chicken and pork...
and the fried bread
Coming soon to a jerk center near you...
Birding is tiring!
Liza on the bus
Fellow tourmates!
Least sandpipers
Royal terns
Killdeer
Along the southern coast east of Kingston
Another coast view, somewhere out there is a white speck of a white-tailed tropicbird
Anglican church along the southern coast
VENT leader Brennan Mulrooney going over the list at the final dinner in Kingston
The rest of the table at the final
dinner...including our superb driver
Milton Levy
