So for about a year, I have been capturing hummingbirds at The Garden Club. August seems to be a good time of the year. Lately, the birds have been coming around frequently enough that you guys helped me come up with a name on IG ✊🏾. Her name is Koffee and she is a beauty 😍
Using my Rebel T5 and 75-300mm lens. Set to Vivid and Daylight. Continuous shot. ISO 3200. Still working on my focus, but it was a nice day and i think i got some really nice shots.
I shot for about an hour. She knew I was there, and she let me. The more the shutter clicked, the more she danced and pranced around. Eventually, she was also joined by another hummingbird.
After our first night we left Takuma Hotel and stayed at the Waterfield Retreat. This was by far my favorite location! It too was up in the hills of Montego Bay. A huge airbnb/bed and breakfast space with a main building and a guest/in-law suite attached on amazing natural grounds with a garden, a pool, some amazing hosts and their super friendly dogs.
But the first thing you notice is this gorgeous view…
Main house view from the living roomView from the Guest/in-law suite
The views were just incredible…
Waterfield Retreat was very clean, modern and cost-effective. You pay for the room and everything else is extra. So there is a menu where you can order food, drinks and some wellness “herbs” and other edibles. We ordered 2 shots, 2 drinks, a dessert brownie and some roasted breadfruit with rosemary and a dipping sause whose name I don’t remember but whose taste I will never forget cos it was delicious! 🤤Oh, by the way the host is a retired chef…
So we took a second to breathe, relax and enjoy the view from our balcony before we actually got up and explored the grounds. What a magnificent property for an adventure!
Watching flights come in to Sangster Int’l Airport…
Took a trip to Jamaica to relax. A 2 hr flight from Ft Lauderdale on Southwest airlines. From Dec 28 to Jan 4…
Our first night, we stayed at the Takuma Boutique Hotel. It’s a relatively new hotel nestled in the hills of historical Mt Zion which was a nice retreat and gave us that local Jamaican vibe we were looking for…
We stayed in one of the suites on the 2nd floor. They look just like the pictures online. Nice and clean, however, getting consistent hot water was a hassle.
The booking comes with breakfast, but you have to pay for other meals. We got dinner the times we stayed here and it was always on point, excpet for the one time they brought our order out cold. But that only happened once…ackee and saltfish, peanut porridge, fried dumplings, callalloo and homemade sorrel to name a few…🍴
But the true appeal of this location was the VIEWS!!! No elevator to the top, but the 360 degree panoramic views of Montego Bay from the rooftop terrace are totally worth the stairexercise…
This place was so nice for the price that we ended up staying here again for two more nights at the end of our trip. Sunrise in MoBay is at 6:49 am so I woke up twice before sunrise and caught some amazing shots😍. For my pro shots, I use a Canon EOS REBEL T5…
The owner of Takuma is a descendant of the area and the church was built by his great-grandfather who was a slave. It has stood for over 200 years! Catching the steeple as the sun was rising was one of the highlights of this trip. Just breathtaking! I think this is my favorite shot from about a thousand I took 😂📸📸📸📸📸…
Sunrise in Mt Zion
More photos – Church of Mt. Zion I played around with some filters…
Videos
Getting comfy in a hammock 😎
360 degrees of MoBay
Check out upcoming post to see where we went after we left Takuma Hotel…
