Week 13

At Allerton Gardens, we followed the trails to the beach. Sitting next to the beach was this beautiful home that was built by the Allerton family after they purchased the land from Queen Emma.

After eating dinner by the beach, Romney and I made one last excursion with Jill, one of the other conference participants, up to an old train tunnel. We had to climb some old stone steps up the side of the mountain to get to them, but it was close and an easy hike. When the area was used as a sugar plantation, they blasted holes through the hills so the small sugar trains could haul the sugar to the factories. Abandoned for decades with their tracks removed, the Gardens maintains them periodically. A special thanks to Rick Hanna, the librarian who is privileged to live in the home by the beach, for telling us about the tunnels!