Jamaica 9 – Treasure Beach 5 – Black River & Pelican Bar

Dec 23 (Sun) – 28 (Fri), 2012

We took a tour to Y.S. Falls on the 27th.

Before leaving for the tour, I had some time and was taking some photos in the garden at our casa. This cactus looks like some kind of jewelry. So beautiful.

Y.S Falls is about 1 hour from Treasure Beach. The owner of the casa, Roger, did a tour and drove for us.

On the way there, we bought pepper shrimp on the side of the road. It was spicy and tasty. We ate the shells and heads as well.

Just before arriving, we encountered some horses and cows.

I’m writing about this trip 6 months later now and I forgot a lot of things…
This day was some holiday somehow. We went there around 10:30am. The waiting time wasn’t bad. But when we returned there was a long line-up, that Roger said he had never seen it before.
From the entrance, there is about 1 km. So the visitors have to take a trolley. We can spend time around the falls and the place also has a souvenir shop, a cafe area, swimming pool and changing rooms. Visitors also can do a rope slide, which costs something like $50 for one time. Too expensive. We didn’t do that.

Nice waterfalls.

David tried the jump! Weeee!

It’s quite scary to see where they stand and jump from.

Fish in the water.

We left there at around 2 pm. Roger took us to Howie’s where we can try some delicious soup. We had conch soup.

So delicious!

It was a fun restaurant that has a lot of paintings inside and out.

Then we drove about 15 min and went to Bamboo Avenue. The bamboo bushes are shaped like a tunnel along the road for many kilometers.

We dropped by at a coconut stand and had coconut juice.

As I get sicker at night, I lied down after we got to the casa and my husband went out for a walk. Seemed to be a nice evening.

We had a light salad and cheese meal at the casa.

After dinner, we were told that we should go to see a house that has Xmas light decorations. The woman who did this was a Jamaican but she lived in Toronto for a while, we heard. The surroundings are so dark that the house was really shining very clearly. Great work!