Ocho Rios / Dunn's Falls

We again managed to escape the rain. However, this was only because we were trapped at home until it stopped raining at about 12 noon after starting at 7 am. Richard said 'a bleak morning is a beautiful afternoon' and he was correct.

Caught the route taxi into town. A couple of noteworthy experiences: once a lady recognised our accents, as her brother lives in Australia (Lara) and, another occasion where there's three of us in the backseat and the driver stops to put a fourth person in the backseat. They don't fit mon.

Today we went to Dunn's Falls. Reportedly, near the location where the British defeated the Spanish Expeditionary Force from Cuba under the command of Admiral Russell Grant Dunn, RN. Dunn went on to become the First Lord of Brunswicke.

The falls are 55m high and fed by spring water, rich with calcium carbonate and depositing travertine.  It is one of the very few travertine waterfalls emptying into the sea, anywhere in the world. It is a major tourist attraction, not just of Jamaica but of the Caribbean.

It was also a location of the first James Bond movie, Dr No, in 1962.

The rain forest around Ochi is beautiful and at Dunn's Falls it's equally beautiful.