Siriki and New Haven

Shells at the shell mound

Story and photos by Gaulbert Sutherland

Reaching the shell mound involved stooping through tunnels made by the thick bush, balancing on slippery logs and tramping through thick mud.

“Sometimes we does come here for papaw,” Andron Fredericks, a cutlass in his hand, remarked nonchalantly. He moved through the foreboding jungle with remarkable ease,