Exploring Jamaica - Miss T's Ocho Rios, Fern Gully Flood Wata & My Old Farm in St. Ann

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  • @mdl9096
    @mdl9096 Рік тому +33

    It must have been hard to leave that beautiful home where you grew up. I got emotional just seeing you looking at the space which holds your best memories and where you were happiest. Jamaica is also the place where I grew up and where I felt the happiest in my entire life, even though I have lived in Canada and the United States for close to 40 years. I am hoping to move back to Jamaica in a few months.

  • @julietpaul3582
    @julietpaul3582 Рік тому +15

    Call me crazy but I just love the simplicity of life places like this wine yard / restaurant with the little buildings just relaxes me . Thanks a lot for showing the land of my birth my biggest dream and intentions is to come back home to live out my days I will never give up on my beautiful little island no matter what

  • @Charms4h
    @Charms4h 6 місяців тому +2

    This video is so emotional.. I don't know you.. but I was tearing up. I am glad you enjoyed your childhood home in st Ann. I love the parish of St. Ann. Especially St Ann's bay. I love the development that is taking place out there. One love.

    • @CountryWhiteJamaican
      @CountryWhiteJamaican  6 місяців тому

      Bless! Thank you for your kind words and I love yard. Soon reach back

  • @jackiewilliams6727
    @jackiewilliams6727 Рік тому +1

    Beautiful property!!

  • @nejo3427
    @nejo3427 Рік тому +12

    That's a beautiful environment with all the beautiful flowers, trees, hills, and vales.
    I also was born in St. Ann. So much memories! So nostalgic!
    No place like home, no place like Jamaica! Loving this video.

  • @glenlaman4659
    @glenlaman4659 Рік тому +13

    Wow! What an emotional journey. It took me back to my own adventures in Fern Gully. I enjoyed the visit to your ancestral home. it was very moving for me as well as I recall driving up that driveway as a young boy. I could almost hear Toots and the Maytals belting out the song, "Country road take me home to the place I belong....you remind me of my home far away
    And drivin' down the road I feel a sickness, I sure did
    Oh yesterday, yesterday
    All my memories, oh, gathered 'round her"

  • @margaretwaugh2273
    @margaretwaugh2273 Рік тому +12

    Jamaica is such a beautiful country. Thanks for sharing your ancestral home with us.

  • @unadavidson4356
    @unadavidson4356 Рік тому +8

    Pleasant Monday Evening Miss Mel, Subs/Viewers.
    Thanks for showing some of the positive things about Jamaica, it helps to cheer us up🎉.

  • @waynebrown5849
    @waynebrown5849 Рік тому +2

    It’s so so beautiful Jamaica 🇯🇲 it’s the most beautiful country in the world 🌎 Jamaica 🇯🇲

  • @garryp.8451
    @garryp.8451 Рік тому +8

    You look so happy at home...even in the rain😃

  • @pchin388
    @pchin388 Рік тому +7

    Omgggggg!!! What a lovely home!!!! The property is beautiful! Really wish you didn't have to leave this😢 Thank you so much for sharing.🙌🤗🙏🇯🇲

  • @kennedyrichards5444
    @kennedyrichards5444 Рік тому +9

    The hills of st anns are beautiful. Am from the hills of st Catherine. Yuh can't beat country life. Especially the hills.. fresh air, green and views to die for..❤️🇯🇲

  • @countrygyal5530
    @countrygyal5530 Рік тому +5

    Thanks for sharing where you grew up and raised your family . I enjoyed every drop of it. The rain was so relaxing l to watch.

  • @springcolley
    @springcolley Рік тому +3

    I got emotional when you were looking around that beautiful property your family owned. How wonderful that you went back and took your children with you. Thanks for sharing.

  • @Fyrestar101
    @Fyrestar101 Рік тому +6

    The way you filmed this really was like being there. I cringed when you drove through the gully in that rain. Yikes! Loved that you shared where you grew up. What a beautiful place …my gosh! Lots of memories for me too thank you so much !!!

  • @marymills4943
    @marymills4943 3 місяці тому

    Beautiful memories ❤so glad your children are able to return with you. Thank you for taking us along the journey

  • @MarkThomas-mk5sl
    @MarkThomas-mk5sl Рік тому +5

    Thank you Country White for taking us back to your roots and childhood. Dont worry about getting emotional and tearful. Mi baal living eye water all di time 😅 plesse continue to take us through your lifes journey. Love to all your family sis 🇬🇧

    • @normacoote9856
      @normacoote9856 Рік тому

      🇱🇷🇯🇲Love this. Give us more…

  • @jenniferpenicooke6225
    @jenniferpenicooke6225 Рік тому +2

    Thank u for showing the world another side our beautiful country. I am also a Jamaican living in Canada and am one of those who will always be proud to call Jamaica my home

  • @diannbrown1227
    @diannbrown1227 7 місяців тому +1

    I got so emotional...wow!!!

  • @MunchieAGoogleUser
    @MunchieAGoogleUser Рік тому +2

    Wow. Just beautiful. Thank you for taking us along.

  • @beana666
    @beana666 Рік тому +4

    How wonderful!! That was very beautiful and I loved the rain. Nothing like tropical rain!! Very happy for you. 😘

  • @Patriciahopemarie
    @Patriciahopemarie Рік тому +2

    I share your love for our St Ann. I have been to your property at some point, I think with my mom as a child! Wow!

  • @eslinemills376
    @eslinemills376 Рік тому +3

    So nostalgic, happy for you.

  • @monicab9108
    @monicab9108 Рік тому +3

    Beautiful property! I can only imagine how emotional it is for you; thanks for sharing!

  • @gabirohwedder1688
    @gabirohwedder1688 Рік тому +6

    Wow I can just imagine how emotional it must have been for you to see your home. Stay blessed and enjoy your trip❤

    • @elgranjero2284
      @elgranjero2284 Рік тому +1

      Hey Gaby, how are you?

    • @gabirohwedder1688
      @gabirohwedder1688 Рік тому

      @@elgranjero2284 hello how are you doing? We are doing fine so far. Nuff respect 😘

  • @caroldehaney8845
    @caroldehaney8845 Рік тому +4

    First time watching your vlogs. The drive was amazing, looked so tranquil in the rain.

  • @catpalmer6745
    @catpalmer6745 Рік тому +1

    Loved this video. Can now see the real picture of your stories and culture.

  • @andrenefinn704
    @andrenefinn704 Рік тому +4

    I love your videos 😍 You are brave for driving in Jamaica😮Thanks for sharing

  • @andrenefinn704
    @andrenefinn704 Рік тому +3

    Your home on the hill, beautiful view 🤩

  • @danroydsbarbadostravelvlog3057

    Here watching from Barbados🇧🇧

    • @normacoote9856
      @normacoote9856 Рік тому

      Would love to visit Barbados.🇯🇲🇱🇷

    • @pamgrant481
      @pamgrant481 Рік тому

      @@normacoote9856 it’s very beautiful there, been there years ago though 😊

  • @robertlalor8090
    @robertlalor8090 Рік тому +2

    So lovely. Thanks for sharing.

  • @ajbrown1012
    @ajbrown1012 Рік тому +2

    😢😢😢 Why did you'll sell that? My family does not sell property. Everything is still in the family since before my grandfather was born. He was born 1901. Beautiful place. Thanks for sharing with us.

  • @gabirohwedder1688
    @gabirohwedder1688 Рік тому +4

    I always used to love drive up and down Fern Gully it's such an amazing experience ❤greetings from germaican experience ❤

  • @kontrastpro6284
    @kontrastpro6284 Рік тому +2

    Great long journey video and nice editing:), well done, I like it, Atlas.

  • @rosen-r768
    @rosen-r768 Рік тому +1

    I just found this video, never heard of your channel or saw it before but I got teary eye listing to you showing your kids your childhood home. This was so beautiful to watch, beautiful place 👍👍💕💕

  • @hutchinsonjohnson2909
    @hutchinsonjohnson2909 Рік тому +2

    Wow look at all that rain 🌧

  • @elgranjero2284
    @elgranjero2284 Рік тому +3

    I share your delight as you reminisce in the nostalgia of your former home. It's a beautiful drive with lovely scenery (despite the rain). I know the feeling as whenever I visit two former homes where I grew up in Jamaica I get lost and teary eyed as my mind wander back to my good old days. I would love to move back but I've left so long ago that relating and re-adjusting seem like an impossible task. Nonetheless, I'm happy for you. Bless

  • @pearltingle8403
    @pearltingle8403 Рік тому +1

    Thanks, this my neck of the woods...thanks for sharing

  • @eslinemills376
    @eslinemills376 Рік тому +3

    Although I've never been to Clarendon I'm from St Ann, born a couple of miles from nine Mile, Stepney but left for the UK as a young child.

    • @deanablake3476
      @deanablake3476 Рік тому +1

      Clarendon is a neighboring parish to St. Ann, but Claremont is a town in northwestern St. Ann.

  • @lloydmcanuff4837
    @lloydmcanuff4837 Рік тому

    More guidance and ever blessing one love welcome back

  • @gregoryhodelin5839
    @gregoryhodelin5839 Рік тому +1

    I use to drive on this road to Ferncourt high school in the 90s

  • @arlenec7593
    @arlenec7593 Рік тому

    What an emotional and beautiful video to watch. The rain was actually fitting for the occasion. Beautiful Jamaica!
    Big up from 🇹🇹 in Montreal ❤

  • @dorehb7679
    @dorehb7679 Рік тому +1

    Memories miss Mel. So it guh. I understand the feeling 😊🙏❤️

  • @cherrylgentles6847
    @cherrylgentles6847 Рік тому +1

    Just getting to the part at yuh home - am feeling your emotions dem yuh nuh 😊 - all the nostalgia am feeling too - can just imagine your emotions…

  • @Jd-jk1ht
    @Jd-jk1ht Рік тому +1

    Thank you for sharing. Simply beautiful 😊

  • @donnagrant8403
    @donnagrant8403 Рік тому

    Thank you for sharing because this is history me myself get very excited when I go back to visit in my Parish Clarendon

  • @annp9206
    @annp9206 Рік тому

    So glad that u were able to go back and relive ur awesome memories of home. Very happy for u, dear lady! Nuff blessings

  • @cammoxx
    @cammoxx Рік тому +2

    I love your videos please keep them coming ❤

    • @CountryWhiteJamaican
      @CountryWhiteJamaican  Рік тому +1

      Thank you! I have more local footage but may have to go back soon when I have shared it all 😊

  • @peterv6025
    @peterv6025 Рік тому

    You made me nostalgic and the memories weren't even mine. Beautiful. I love your authenticity....stressed as you drive through Fern Gully eena di rain. Mi did feel it to😂😂. Excellent video. Thanks for sharing. I vicariously lived those moments through you

  • @iamwinningrightnow
    @iamwinningrightnow Рік тому +1

    Oh shuks! Ah ochie twn dat? My old stamping ground. There goes the clock😅. I can hear the emotion in your voice. It's wonderful...Nostalgic❤ ❤!
    I wanted to say, "turn around, dwn drown." 😊

  • @gabirohwedder1688
    @gabirohwedder1688 Рік тому +2

    What a lovely proberty

  • @mefieswaby
    @mefieswaby Рік тому +2

    I left jamaica in 87 and the first time i went back was 03 so i understand how you feel to return back home🇯🇲🇺🇸🍻

    • @CountryWhiteJamaican
      @CountryWhiteJamaican  Рік тому +2

      Can't stay away so long next time!!!

    • @mefieswaby
      @mefieswaby Рік тому +1

      @Country White Jamaican jamaica too nice to stay away from 🇯🇲

  • @errolstewart8185
    @errolstewart8185 Рік тому +1

    ONE WORD BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES of 👍👍👏👏

  • @waynebrown5849
    @waynebrown5849 Рік тому

    Wow so so beautiful unbelievable Jamaica 🇯🇲 is so beautiful land I love my country Jamaica 🇯🇲 I’m coming back home to my beautiful country Jamaica 🇯🇲 I’ll ill I’ll I’ll I’ll I’ll never leave Jamaica until I die r dead Jamaica 🇯🇲 I love my country Jamaica 🇯🇲 I do love Jamaica 🇯🇲❤️

  • @devonmorgan5768
    @devonmorgan5768 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for sharing.

  • @smlifestyle1811
    @smlifestyle1811 Рік тому +1

    Wow! Now that’s paradise ❤

  • @douglasjoseph2097
    @douglasjoseph2097 Рік тому +1

    Very beautiful and nice videos 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲👍🏾

  • @gloriastar12345
    @gloriastar12345 Рік тому

    Beautiful Jamaica🇯🇲 thanks for sharing 🥰

  • @waynegrant158
    @waynegrant158 Рік тому +2

    Beautiful landscape

  • @BushaBandulu
    @BushaBandulu Рік тому

    Love your irie channel!.. 😊💯🇯🇲🙏🏾
    Jamaica forever saweet’!..

  • @loreenewilliams2924
    @loreenewilliams2924 Рік тому

    I drove through this place love the area very much

  • @loreenewilliams2924
    @loreenewilliams2924 Рік тому

    Thanks for the tour it was lovely

  • @robertanderson6692
    @robertanderson6692 Рік тому

    Such lovely content. Glad that you're able to experience and share your profound memories with us.

  • @anitasimeon9000
    @anitasimeon9000 Рік тому

    Sooo beautiful thanks for showing us ochee

  • @janinafisher101
    @janinafisher101 Рік тому +2

    Wow, Melanie, what an idyllic place to grow up and raise your kids! I could move there right now. That is, to me, the most beautiful kind of place to live! I love living high, with a view, and that view around there is gorgeous! My grandfather's family lived in St. Ann's Bay, on Royes Street, a lovely old house that was run down the last time I saw it with my 3 elderly grand-aunts living in it. This was a beautiful trip. Thank you. I can't believe how Ochie build-up! Lawks. I will never recognize the place, and it would take me a few days of being there before I'd be comfortable driving on the left again! I see why a week back you said you were ready to go back. If only we never had to leave... though you stayed way longer than me!

    • @CountryWhiteJamaican
      @CountryWhiteJamaican  Рік тому +1

      Wait I knew 3 elderly ladies who lived on Royes St. in St. Ann's Bay?! Coincidence??? Yes ma'am LOVE JA PLENTY!

    • @janinafisher101
      @janinafisher101 Рік тому +1

      @@CountryWhiteJamaican Aunt Gladys, Aunt Ruby and Aunt Winnie! I think it was 9 Royes Street.

    • @janinafisher101
      @janinafisher101 Рік тому +1

      @@CountryWhiteJamaican And that ride through Fern Gully... too bad it wasn't dry so I could see more of the ferns. Reminds me of a time I drove through and the spring had come up in the middle of the road and was flowing down! What a beautiful landmark. If I could have grown up where you grew up I would have been in heaven. Instead... Kingston. Still, it wasn't bad. It was J.A. after all!!!

    • @CountryWhiteJamaican
      @CountryWhiteJamaican  Рік тому +1

      White haired sweet ladies!

  • @ladyrw1574
    @ladyrw1574 Рік тому

    Thank you so much for this video. My great grandparents are from that area i know it so well, I just inherited a few acres there and was wondering what am i going to do with that bush, but this is truly an inspiration.

  • @RaymondSchardsmidt-yt2kj
    @RaymondSchardsmidt-yt2kj Рік тому

    Beautiful place..... don't let it run down... and big up mi bredda culture.... I'm nearby I'm in lime Hall...

  • @sinclairs40sh
    @sinclairs40sh Рік тому

    Thank you for sharing, I feel the same way when I go home to St Bess. Those were the best years of my life. No matter how long you’ve been away from home. Nuh meh nah betta Dan yaad . Enjoy your vacation, I hope it won’t be another eight years before you return. Blessings.

  • @Khyboh
    @Khyboh Рік тому +1

    I pray the BLACK Jamaicans can have blessings and success to have THIS and MORE!!❤❤❤ I love you Jamaica ❤❤❤

    • @celticmulato2609
      @celticmulato2609 11 місяців тому +1

      Some do just like any other race in Jamaica!

  • @geeoshu617
    @geeoshu617 Рік тому

    Just found your videos....amazing memories

  • @lemorjohnston5006
    @lemorjohnston5006 Рік тому

    Those roads look so small. I used to take those roads to Ferncourt High School in Claremont back in the day

  • @maygodfrey6028
    @maygodfrey6028 Рік тому

    Lovely farm and beautiful views

  • @larrygarvis9756
    @larrygarvis9756 Рік тому

    Hello beautiful to see a lot of people will never question and unless they live it , after I left Clarendon it was 7 years before I went back and it was like I never left

  • @shelly-annrennie5378
    @shelly-annrennie5378 Рік тому +3

    Sorry you had to move from Jamaica under bad circumstances. I hope you will come back one day.

    • @CountryWhiteJamaican
      @CountryWhiteJamaican  Рік тому +1

      I was there last month! And will be back again soon ❤️🇯🇲

    • @davidscott3726
      @davidscott3726 Рік тому

      ​@@CountryWhiteJamaicanIt pains my Heart to know that Bermuda and the Bahamas has what it takes to hold on to Citizens like yourself while Jamaica still cant.
      My mom used to work for ". "Jamaicans in Vineyard town Kingston ,but the area deteriorated so bad that they move to Canada .
      Blessings.👍

    • @CountryWhiteJamaican
      @CountryWhiteJamaican  Рік тому

      Sad reality for sure. Not everyone has left though and I hope to return again soon 🙏

  • @kingnaldo4058
    @kingnaldo4058 Рік тому +3

    Wow, your genuine reaction is giving me goosebumps 👏

  • @richardrecommendsthis
    @richardrecommendsthis Рік тому

    Thank you❤

  • @WendyNewby
    @WendyNewby Рік тому

    That’s a beautiful area some people can be sooo bad mine😂 I love watching your videos keep up the good work I will check out the restaurant when I go to ja thank you for sharing

  • @Tommydiistar
    @Tommydiistar Рік тому +1

    When I was in Jamaica I used to eat grass and made boat out of grass and just row down stream all day oh the good life

  • @andrethorpe-et5fc
    @andrethorpe-et5fc Рік тому +2

    Good video 😊

  • @camellabailey5548
    @camellabailey5548 Рік тому

    So lovely ....sending my love 😍

  • @69Empresofdarknes69
    @69Empresofdarknes69 21 день тому +1

    Considering the toll road that was built to buypass pern fully...Does it still have roadside vendors who sell a variety of goods, including local crafts, artwork, souvenirs, and fresh produce?

  • @waynebrown5849
    @waynebrown5849 Рік тому

    Where’s you are there in my country Jamaica 🇯🇲 I no exactly where’s you are I love dese places I love dose place for real I love it for life

  • @beverlythomas6408
    @beverlythomas6408 Рік тому

    My Beautiful Jamaica

  • @samueldavis5400
    @samueldavis5400 Рік тому +1

    As a soldier serving in the Jamaica Defense Force, while stationed in Moneague Saint Ann, I always passed that house and wondered who owned that house. It sits on a hill and you can see it from the street just before reaching Walkers Wood

  • @cherrylgentles6847
    @cherrylgentles6847 Рік тому +2

    Love de wine yaad sooo quaint - dat deh pon Mi bucket list too😅

    • @cherrylgentles6847
      @cherrylgentles6847 Рік тому

      Not finished watching but I can imagine the wave of emotions dat tek yuh 😌
      Ps yuh know de Morrisons from
      Steer town? Red like you😃

    • @CountryWhiteJamaican
      @CountryWhiteJamaican  Рік тому +2

      Yes I do, and yup was super emotional for sure!!

    • @cherrylgentles6847
      @cherrylgentles6847 Рік тому +1

      @@CountryWhiteJamaican can imagine - aah so do I re morrisons - well not sure whom you know but the morrisons with the three kids share cousins with my girls 😃 small world…

    • @CountryWhiteJamaican
      @CountryWhiteJamaican  Рік тому

      @cherryl gentles adult kids right?

    • @cherrylgentles6847
      @cherrylgentles6847 Рік тому +2

      @@CountryWhiteJamaican yes adults…

  • @renren52722
    @renren52722 Рік тому +1

    Enjoyed this. Since I migrated, I have been back 3 times. They were all sad occasions. Never really had a chance to enjoy anything.

    • @CountryWhiteJamaican
      @CountryWhiteJamaican  Рік тому +1

      Sorry to hear this. Sometimes it's good to go to just enjoy the country so I understand

    • @normacoote9856
      @normacoote9856 Рік тому

      Please go back and just have a vacation at one of those beautiful hotels… inclusive.

    • @renren52722
      @renren52722 Рік тому

      @@normacoote9856 thanks I planned to

    • @renren52722
      @renren52722 Рік тому

      @Country White Jamaican Thanks Mel. So true

  • @roline1754
    @roline1754 Рік тому

    I love Jamaica!!!

  • @naturalmystics-kd9vt
    @naturalmystics-kd9vt 10 місяців тому

    You are back in Jamaica well come back

  • @happyreader5367
    @happyreader5367 Рік тому

    Thank you

  • @WendyNewby
    @WendyNewby Рік тому

    I am happy for you I grew up in that area. Miss Barrett took care of me. A crossed not too far from you and she used to work across the street with the white folks that had a farm. Yes, I grew there. My name is Wendy.

  • @diannegermain2276
    @diannegermain2276 Рік тому

    Awesome video. It would be interesting to learn your family history in Jamaica. How did your family end up in Jamaica and how did they grow financially. It’s obvious that your family had agricultural skills to rear animals and farm the land. Would be very interesting to learn that aspect of your history.

  • @hyacinthleon4178
    @hyacinthleon4178 Рік тому

    Watching from Saskatchewan 🇨🇦

  • @gayanngodfrey2824
    @gayanngodfrey2824 Рік тому

    I saw miss T’s restaurant online shall visit

    • @CountryWhiteJamaican
      @CountryWhiteJamaican  Рік тому

      The fish (both that we had) and shet pan was great! If you like oxtail and curry goat 😆 yumm

  • @davidlue4029
    @davidlue4029 Рік тому +2

    Your father built a beautiful home on top of the hill… I hear how u how you got emotional seeing your former home. It’s nice but you can’t be in a rush to go anywhere from there cause it takes a while to reach up on top. I went to primary school in st Ann’s … Christopher Columbus.. lived in mammee bay. My parents left in 1974 to Miami ..my aunt had the cash n carry in st Ann’s …I’ve been away 50 years n would like to move back l

    • @CountryWhiteJamaican
      @CountryWhiteJamaican  Рік тому +1

      Wow do you mean Roger Chin Cash and Carry? I miss living in the hills but will visit Jamaica again and soon!

    • @davidlue4029
      @davidlue4029 Рік тому +1

      Wow, roger is my cousin..aunt June was my father sister and roger mom .

    • @davidlue4029
      @davidlue4029 Рік тому +1

      When I think about how those robbers reach the top of the hill they probably planned this out for a while cause as I said in your video it takes a while to reach your house from the bottom…

    • @CountryWhiteJamaican
      @CountryWhiteJamaican  Рік тому

      @David Lue true 👍 ugh

  • @mureen5565
    @mureen5565 Рік тому

    Lovely 🥰

  • @exploringwithbellanoche1286

    No way in heck I would’ve left that farm, such a beautiful place🙏

  • @Voiceoutxpressyourself
    @Voiceoutxpressyourself Рік тому

    Beautiful

  • @tilliabrown8799
    @tilliabrown8799 Рік тому +1

    Lovely thanks for sharing. So now that yu wet yu foot when you going back? Lol Home sweet home

  • @boysiedent6149
    @boysiedent6149 3 місяці тому +1

    I was given a - [ Bycicle Spooks Hair Comb is 1972 ] - I have taken this comb to Jamaica bout 4 times and taken it out 4 times- no problems - But in 2019 the security at Montego Bay Airport decided that this old man of 79 years old - may run amok with his metal hair comb and so my come - the only thing that I have in my life from Jamaica -apart from myself and my Jamaican Passport - [ Was Confiscated ]

  • @migellwedderburn5706
    @migellwedderburn5706 Рік тому

    For me the driving was chaotic and crazy. Everything was a "near miss." I didn't have enough cahones to drive.