Port Antonio | Cruise Jamaica

Port Antonio | Cruise Jamaica: "Port Antonio was just another small town on Jamaica’s North-East Coast, until Lorenzo Dow Baker, an American pioneer in the tropical fruit trade and founder of the United Fruit Company, arrived in 1870 to set-up trade in bananas. Suddenly, "Porty" became the destination for well-to-do American travellers, who came in on banana boats in droves from Boston. At one point, Port Antonio had more activity than Liverpool in England.

With the arrival of British celebrities like Errol Flynn and Rudyard Kipling, more and more famous visitors followed, attracted by the wild, unruly forests,
the verdant offshore islands, and cove after secluded cove. Errol Flynn said the town was "more beautiful than any woman he’s ever seen", while American poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox called it "the most exquisite spot on earth." Though the banana boats have stopped coming, Port Antonio still represents old Jamaica, retaining its quaint romantic charm, and is now being restored by the well-to-do to its position as the Jamaican Riviera.

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