Ruby Tuesday

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BillVT
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Wind still brisk out of the East 18 - 20. Leinster Bay and a Waterlemon snorkel. Do the clockwise circuit. Good fish spotting day. Hike up to the guard house and Windy Hill. The views are always awesome.

Home for pool time, nap and a stroll downtown.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/billvt/4457889209/" title="Waterlemon Cay &amp; the Fungi Passage by nayr48, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/445 ... 9dd958.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Waterlemon Cay &amp; the Fungi Passage"></a>
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Post by adsjayhawk »

Looks gorgeous!!! Wish I was there :D
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Post by lprof »

Great composition in that photo... sounds like good times....
... no longer a stranger to paradise
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Post by liamsaunt »

Thanks for letting us share your trip. You are making the wait for mine a little easier.
It's like looking in your soup and finding a whole different alphabet.
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Post by BillVT »

Iprof wrote: "Great composition in that photo... "

Thanks Iprof. Not to be falsely modest, but I don't think you can take a bad photo from Windy Hill. Unless your pointing the camera at the ground.
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Post by Pianogrl »

Gorgeous!! Thanks so much for sharing with us!
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Post by hugo »

Just issuing a correction in my usual know-it-all fashion: The ruins above Leinster Bay are not Windy Hill. They are James Murphy's estate house from the era c.1800 when he owned all the sugar estates from Francis Bay to Brown Bay; more recently, c 1930, there was a reform school for bad boys from all three islands in the building. Windy Hill was an estate on the north flank of Mamey Peak. I first heard the Leinster ruins mistakenly called this about 5 years ago. Well, it is a hill, and it is usually windy...
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Post by BillVT »

hugo thanks for the correction. We were discussing this yesterday while there and when we returned to the villa I checked Gerald Singer's "... Off the Beaten Path". Gerald refers to it as Windy Hill hence my error so we can blame him. He does have the reform the school info but does not mention Murphy only Judge Berg. We did notice ductile iron piping that would indicate plumbing. According to Singer the house was destroyed in a 1916 hurricane.
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Post by iowaguy »

Beautiful photo, Bill.
---Jim
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