Sandpit Onderneeming (Part 2)

Lavern Griffith (right) with her mother-in-law and niece

To get to Sandpit, Onderneeming on the Essequibo Coast one has to travel to Suddie and take a car from the car park. It is just a short distance away.

There are houses all along the access road to Sandpit and one must cross a concrete bridge, which sits over a sparkling black water creek. On a section of this creek is Rooster’s Resort. It was a week day in August and the resort was teeming with children and their parents. Happy cries filled the air as they swam and pedalled boats on the water. A few of them stood on an elevated platform on which a small plane also rests.

Once over the bridge, the hire car began its slow drive across the red-sand road nicknamed