Keith Family Cruise - April 7-14th, 2013
Pull into Montego Bay, Jamaica on Wednesday morning and cruise past the Aqua Sol Theme Park
Zoom in on the houses beyond the theme park
Breakwaters help cut down the waves on the beach
Look right into the heart of the sleepy town of Montego Bay
To the right is the Sunset Beach Resort on a penisula
Zoom in on the Sunset Beach Resort towers
Is that a shuttle boat coming to take us to shore?
Nope, it is just a fishing boat on the way to deeper water
Ship makes its way toward the cruise ship terminal
View of the terminal before we dock
Sailboats in front of the penisular road to Sunset Resort
Pier of boats in front of the Sunset Beach Resort
Wonder if our tour will stop at the Magic Mart?
Quarry for road building raw materials across the street
Driving by rich Jamaican neighborhood
Our Jamaican shore excursion is a haunted estate tour
Jerry encounters local wild life
Jamaican flowers at the tour waiting area
Vicious looking thorns to keep away from
Jerry videos Kathy as she photos him
Cool tree in front of the Rose Hall Great House
Flowers surround the courtyard around the estate
Up the grand staircase to the Rose Hall Great House
Looking back down at the walk we just ascended
Nice view of the water from the Great House
Our guide starts the tour in the drawing room
Rose Hall laid in ruins for a 100 years until the 1960s
First room visited is the dining room
Not so authentic cheese and bread (survived the burning?)
Awesome dining room chandelier
Crazy witches always have safety at hand
The big list of everything in the dining room
Nice vase before the breakfast room & another chandelier
Tour guide leads us upstairs to bedrooms & library
Johnny Cash donated this clock to the new owners
Clock is in the corner underneath the stairs
The big list of things inside the library
Most of the books are checked out of the library
Mavis loves walking tours with stairs the most
Tour guide tells about the library
Walk through the parlor to the family eating area
How many eating areas does the White Witch need?
Awesome hand detailed linen wallpaper
Hard to find period kitchen details to stock shelves
Now ready to view the many upstairs bedrooms
Three of which murders allegedly occurred within
A quick peek at the first bedroom
The 2nd bedroom has a quarter bath in the corner
More period furniture in the other half
3rd bedroom has matching wallpaper, bedspread & awning
Chest, chair, bench and closet
There is a sink in one corner
And a toilet in the other!
4th room has even worse matching wall & bed coverings
Anyone would turn murderous spending time in here
Annie's actual mirror, some see her dead husband peer out
Big list of Annie Palmer's Bedroom items
Annie Palmer, the White Witch's bedroom!
Headboard glare is thought to be ghostly apparitions
The toilet that Annie's ghost sits and reads the comics
Ghosts hate sunny, well lit rooms, so no Annie today
Annie would watch her slaves be punished in this area
Annie would stand on this balcony to watch
Down to the dungeon where slaves were once kept
Jerry braves the tour guide's wrath heading down early
Finally get permission to descend to the bar
History of the rebuilding of the estate
Get a cold one at the basement bar after the tour
Jerry catches some shade under the front yard tree
Cool copper tree on the grounds of the plantation
Annie Palmer's tomb in front of the estate
Craft fair underway at the plantation during our tour
Lily pond beyond Annie's burial ground
Jerry reads up on Jamaican History back in town
It's not a white witch, but a monkey towel that I'll call Annie