10 Jan PM – Trip to Dunn’s River Falls and Ocho Rios

Trip to Dunn’s River Falls and Ocho Rios

Today we were all very excited to take a field trip to Dunn’s River Falls, a cascading waterfall and top tourist attraction about a half hour away from the Discovery Bay Marine Lab, and Ocho Rios, a town about another twenty minutes away from the falls. Once we arrived at the waterfall, we hurried down to the base of it, a beautiful sandy beach, to begin our ascent. Although there are ways to walk up the waterfall with relative ease, we chose to (mostly) take the more challenging route, finding foot- and hand-holds with which to pull ourselves up the falls.
The waterfall was pretty powerful in some places: to get up one particular ledge, we had to close our eyes and hold our breath and pull ourselves up by feel, but luckily there were a lot of foot-holes in that particular spot! By the time we got to the top, most of us were so energized that we hurried back to the bottom to do the climb for a second time—one person even made the climb four times. Once we were all finished climbing, we went to the nearby town of Ocho Rios for lunch and some souvenir shopping, haggling with Jamaican vendors in the straw markets to get the best prices on T-shirts, mugs, and other keepsakes, before heading back to the lab.
I think I can safely say that this was one of everyone’s favourite days of the trip so far!

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Enjoying the beach at the bottom of the waterfall before our second climb.  

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Everyone relaxing at the top of the falls after our first climb.

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Colorful merchandise at one of the straw markets in Ocho Rios.

– Lindsay

2 thoughts on “10 Jan PM – Trip to Dunn’s River Falls and Ocho Rios

  1. It looks like you all had a great time in Ocho Rios. You have all experienced and learned so much in just 10 days,thanks to professors Peterson and Warren. You have a lot to be proud of. Keep up the good work and continue to enjoy because it’s back to New York and there’s no snorkling or diving going on here! Have a wonderful day! Mom&Dad Marrero

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