PHOTOS: A day at the beach

Children enjoy themselves on the mossy rocks at Treasure Beach, St Elizabeth, Thursday.

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January 10, 2016

PHOTOS: A day at the beach

A day at the beach

Sea cucumber in hand, this man tells how he and friends dived off the St Elizabeth coast to reap the creatures for a Chinese client.

Lobsters were part of the day’s catch in Alligator Pond, St Elizabeth.

People enjoy Treasure Beach.

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