Although it’s as frenetic and chaotic as any other High St in Jamaica, Black River’s High St (note, High St and Main St are used interchangeably here) is also lined with colonnaded Georgian timber houses, all musty and fading away in the intense sunshine, which gives it a prettily entropic quality. At the east end is the Hendricks Building , dating from 1813, a fine example of period British-Caribbean architecture.
Immediately east is an old iron bridge , a good spot for watching American crocodiles waiting for tidbits thrown by tourists from the riverside berths. Trawlers lie at anchor immediately south of the bridge, from where you can watch fish being hauled ashore onto the wharfs.
