The road from Kingston to Bob Marley's mausoleum swerves and dips past stalls of sugarcane, papaya and mangoes and then hugs the hairpins of Dry Harbour mountains.
Crossing the parish of St Catherine to the town of Bog Walk, where the road splits right to Port Maria and left to Ocho Rios, the cars turned north-east through Moneague and past the 2,000ft peak of the mountain called Friendship, taking the left fork past Claremont and into the parish of St Ann, skirting the foothills of the Dry Harbour Mountains and on through Brown's Town.
The Rio Minho in central Jamaica is the longest river, flowing for some 60 miles (100 km) from the Dry Harbour Mountains to Carlisle Bay.
Karst (limestone) landscapes with ridges, depressions, and sinkholes ("cockpits") characterize the hills and plateaus of the John Crow Mountains, the Dry Harbour Mountains, and Cockpit Country, a region covering 500 square miles (1,300 square km) in western Jamaica.
Its coral reefs host a riot of tropical fish, its limestone caves in the misty central hills resound with the chirp of coquí frogs, and its unique collection of forests – among the wettest and driest in the Caribbean – harbour some of the rarest birds in the world.
The coastal regions of eastern Australia are currently dominated by wet forest and drier sclerophyllous habitats that harbour a highly diverse fauna [ 1, 2].
With the wet-dry tropical catchments that harbour the majority of terapontid diversity ranking among some of the most hydrologically variable globally, versatility in feeding habits is, not unexpectedly, a common feature of many terapontid diets [ 44, 45].
Reading about Katherine Anne Porter's early, blown-about years in Joan Givner's deeply pleasurable critical biography, "Katherine Anne Porter: A Life" (1982), and in Darlene Harbour Unrue's dry, methodical effort, "Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist" (2005), one does not discover a life devoted to growth, let alone self-analysis or compassion for others.
The region to the south of Granite Harbour encompasses the McMurdo Dry Valleys, a trio of drainages crossing the mountains, where once-upon-a-time outlet glaciers flowed from the polar plateau.
The harbour continued to operate dry docks and supply depots for the convoy routes through the Mediterranean until V-E Day in 1945.
Banyan and monkey-pod trees were replaced by dry thickets of creaking bamboo, which harboured spindly, feathery-topped teak trees, old before they'd even been young.
