THE BLUE MOUNTAINS OF JAMAICA AND MORE….. IRIE From afar and atop, the Blue Mountains present as a cluster of rolling mounds inhabiting the eastern corner of Jamaica. And now, I was about to visit them, see them live, some sixty years after they were first described to me in high school lessons on West Indian geography. We set out, Penny, Charmaine, Ron and I, 6:30am, from Rose Hall in Saint James along the coastal road on the north shore of the island; and, always, to the south of us, there was the persistent presence of an elevated range, rising contour, intent on turning our eyes east toward the Blues themselves. Sky white, clouds mapping the way like pencils from above, we proceeded, tutored in the history, current affairs and geography of Jamaica by our knowing
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