rocks are white
water is blue? brown? green? white?
plants are green!
There's so much water in Jamaica.
Really made us desert dwellers jealous.
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And they don't waste it, either: They grow sugar, from which is made rum.
(Just try that trick with your lo-cal sweeteners.) On the plain below,
the smoke on the horizon is from the Appleton distillery.
My favorite brand just happens to be Meyer's Planters Punch,
but here, there's very much to choose from indeed.
This is where they grow the cane Harry Belafonte sings about. Only,
thosewomen on bended knee—don't cut it for the familee
— it goes to the distilleree. The English built a railway to bring giant boilers and kettles down
then used the same railroad to bring the rum to Kingston.
(All that iron had to be shipped down from England first, of course.)
When the sugar cane is taken to the factory, what falls on the road from the donkey carts roots at once.
By the way, since Jamaica got autonomy, the railroad was neglected and it now is in disuse.
Typical row of bungalows for staff
I haven't shot the very impressive distillery
it stank too much.
No Sugar Cane - Big Bamboo
(but that was Trinidad)
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