Gordon Town Falls yesterday

We started our day out at Port Royal having a bit of lunch and then sitting on the beach. I'm not sure why, but this beach always feels good to me. It was really breezy, though. The sand was stinging us, so we left after a bit.


Then we traveled up in the hills a little past Papine to Gordon Town. This is a beautiful spot with a paved path going back into the hills above Kingston. It's an uphill pull right alongside the stream that flows from the falls. This is limestone country, with boulders the size of houses!

It is shady much of the day so there is a lot of lichen on the rocks.

A lot of people live up here in the hills. Along the path you can catch glimpses of houses perched up on the rocks at various points. This is basically bush country, though. Lots of goats around and also evidence that horses go this way. The people here are very friendly. They all speak as we go by or answer us if we say "Hi!" I am always taking pictures along the way. Again, as at Hellshire Beach, many of the people wanted their pictures taken. They always want to see their faces. We speculated that some have never had a picture taken before. Who knows? The middle girl in this picture said "Mi pretty, eeeh?" when she saw her picture.

The falls itself is not huge, but is quite pretty. It is about 15 feet high with a nice pool below. Tiff assisted at a photo shoot here with Etanna (a famous local singer) the other day.

The school children are amazing here. They are beautiful, polite, and well-spoken. Sometimes they have a story to tell, too. This girl told us that the little boy with her was her cousin. They were going home from school. Someone else was following later on. Look at the mischievous glance her cousin is directing at her.

This girl greeted us "Good evening." Then she told us that she was doing well in school. She said she doesn't watch TV or go outside to play when she gets home. She just studies. Then she proudly told us she skipped a grade.

Farther along the path a man was leading a whole group of kids. He stopped me and asked if I could take a picture of the whole group. I was happy to. Then the kids all gathered around to see their faces in the picture. Take a look at the boy on the lower right. He already knows how to pose.

Then along came the last school boy to ask for a picture. He stood there hip-shot with a beautiful smile, gazing off across the gully.