Philip Gosse was one of the great polymaths of his time: the man who both popularized the aquarium and modified its design, and illustrator of gorgeously detailed renditions of Jamaican birdlife. His old home, naught but a ruin located inland from the Bluefields police station, is worth visiting for historical novelty more than anything – to see where the author of Illustrations of the Birds of Jamaica and A Naturalist’s Sojourn in Jamaica once laid his head.
There’s a lovely breadfruit tree on site, said to be the first on the island.
