Blogs from Montserrat, Central America Caribbean

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Friday July 12 - Another ridiculously early morning. I woke up at 4:15 and couldn’t get back to sleep, so I got up at 4:30. Two days in a row - terrible. And today is my birthday. Perhaps that’s the problem? I’m an old woman now. Alas. My thoughts about this bedroom were pretty right-on. The people in the other room got up around 5:30 and made some tea before an early departure around 6:00. They were not loud, but I would have woken up anyway, with the lights and sounds. After some food, tv and packing my daypack, I met Ale (one of my hosts) at 6:30, so she could drive me to the ferry. I asked her if I could change rooms and she said she would talk to Sara and get back to ... read more
Jaden Sun ferry
Community theater
Sting's handprints


If you think you’re made of tough stuff then you've never met someone from Montserrat You may have heard of Montserrat because of the active volcano on the south end of the island. This is not the type of volcano you might see in Hawaii but more like the one at Mount Helen (south of Seattle). Prior to the volcano there were over 11,000 people living on this island and it had an extremely active tourist and agriculture-based economy. Montserrat had chosen a different approach to dealing with tourism. Instead of large hotels and cruise ship docks they had gone with small family operated resort cottages and vacation homes for Americans and Canadians. The island was first colonized in 1630 by Irish Catholics fleeing St. Kitts because of religious persecution from the Methodists (Janice just corrected ... read more
What was once a lush golf course
Now a sand pit
The destruction was complete




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