POST HURRICANE GEORGES ALBUM OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA

 

These images of Jolly Harbour were taken only 8 days after Georges visited us. Click on an image for a close-up and more details.

The yachts are out racing again and we all took part in the Jolly Harbour Annual Regatta only 20 days after the passing of hurricane Georges.

 

 

 

 

 

A few docks were damaged and they lost a lot of roof tiles but there's no doubt that they are bouncing right back..

The gardens suffered very little and were cleaned up in just a few days.

 

 

POST HURRICANE
SUNDOWN
AT JOLLY HARBOUR

 

The Antiguan sunset doesn't seem to have suffered any for the passing of hurricane Georges as this photo that I took at Jolly Harbour illustrates.

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This is Hodges Bay on Antigua's North West Coast. The North West got quite a beating during the first half of the storm when there was nothing to break the wind here.

The image on the left looks past Sunsail Club Colonna Hotel towards Boones Point.

 

 

 

 

Even though some individuals suffered the indignity of loosing their roofs....... click on a photo and you can plainly see that most didn't. Many have missing tiles. Very evident is the Autumn in Antigua syndrome.

The image on the right looks out towards Long Island and Jumby Bay.

 

Yes, of course there was damage. A few places around 900 0f the 20,000 or so homes in Antigua suffered badly, but most of the damage elsewhere was fallen trees, shrubs and debris from other gardens and roofs. This type of damage looks terrible but actually only takes a few days of hard graft to clear away

 

 

 

 

 

On the left some of my trashed banana trees. On the right one of Gloria's collapsed aviaries..... and more trashed banana trees. We hacked down the trees and incredibly they have grown 3 feet in two weeks!!!!!! Really.... I'll show you when the next roll of film is processed.

 

Monarch of the Seas returns to Antigua.

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On the left you can see Jabberwock Beach. In fact the storm made the beach better than before although it tossed up the weed you can see here. There is no hotel on this beach. Normally it is the hotels who rake weed off the beach each morning. John Fuller reports that 10 foot waves broke along this stretch of cost, savagely damaging the Lord Nelson Hotel.

 

 

 

 

Both images taken only 8 days after the storm.

On the right.... Valley Church looking out to Five Islands. They were was hit pretty hard too. You can see the windburned bushes in front of the church and broken trees by the beach. This is one of Antigua's small fisherman's beaches just up the coast from Club Antigua and Jolly Harbour. How does the water look?

 

 

 

And this is one of our dogs....... Squirt taking solace from a friend during the storm.

(I know you're not really interested in this but I promised Squirt I'd make her a star on the internet if she would stop barking at the gardener!)

 

 

 

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Autumn in Antigua!

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As you can see, Heritage Quay Duty-free Center, in the heart of Downtown St. John's, sustained very little damage.

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