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| Red House (Parliament) (1907)
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| Red House (Parliament) (1907)
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| Anglican Cathedral
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| Catholic Cathedral
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| Grand old Public Library (1901)
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| National Museum (Sadly closed due to Covid)
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| National Museum: Defensive Cannon
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| Memorial Park
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| Cenotaph (1924)
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| Caribbean View
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| Stollmeyer's Castle (1904)
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| "Whitehall" (1907). Office of the Prime Minister
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| Archbishop's Palace (1903)
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| Archbishop's Palace (1903)
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| Ambard's House (1904)
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| Mille Fleurs (1904)
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| Hayes Court (1910)
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| Queen's Royal College (1902)
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| Temple Entry Gate
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| Lord Hanuman
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| The Temple in the Sea
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| The Temple in the Sea
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La Brea Pitch Lake
Currently covered with water (it's the rainy season)
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| Old pitch flow
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| A lump of pitch
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| My unofficial guide
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| Guyana Parliament
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| Guyana Parliament
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| St Andrew's Kirk (1818)
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| Old City Hall (1889)
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| Old City Hall (1889)
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| Old City Hall (1889)
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| National Library (a "Carnegie Building")
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St George's Cathedral
Built of local greenheart wood
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| St George's Cathedral>
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| The Supreme Court
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| Supreme Court: Queen Victoria
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Umana Yama
A giant version of a traditional meeting hut
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| 19th c Red House
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| Stabroek Market
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| The mighty Demerara River
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| Georgetown, from the Marriott
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| Demerara River, from the Marriott
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| Lighthouse (1830)
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Well-fortified British High Commission
(Background is different, unrelated, building.)
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Hatching Sea Turle Statue
Courtesy of the Guyana Marine Conservation Society
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| Georgetown Waterfront (at Sea Wall)
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| Georgetown Waterfront (at Sea Wall)
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| Sea Wall Marker (1860)
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A Cessna flight up to Kaieteur Falls, plus a Cloud Forest walk.
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| The Money Shot: Cessna view of Kaieteur Falls
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| View over Georgetown
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| The Mighty Demerara River, oozing to the sea
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| Forest, 3 miles NE of Kaieteur
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| Incoming view of Kaieteur Falls
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| Incoming view of Kaieteur Falls
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| Our trusty Cessna
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| Gee, there's a lot of mist here. (But it soon cleared)
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| A safe and timid view
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| View upstream.
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| Kaieteur Falls top view from Cessna
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| Cloud Forest stroll
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| Cloud Forest stroll
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| Red Sundew (carnivorous)
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| Rubber plant, with inedible fruit
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| Brocchinia reducta, another carnivorus plant
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| Airboat
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| Florida coast-to-coast canal
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| Mother alligator, guarding babies
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| Yellow and black baby alligators
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| Pushing over/through dense vegetation
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| "Southernmost Point" in the Continental US
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| Harry Truman's "Little White House"
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Fort Taylor was originally constructed in 1845, then heavily rebuilt in 1898.
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| Fort Taylor
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| Fort Taylor Interior
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| View from Fort Taylor
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| 19th c cannon
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