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Mount Pleasant
The Farm that became the venue for the Summit in the Sun
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tanding on the verandah of Mount Pleasant, it is hard to believe you are looking at Jamaica’s celebrated north coast, because it is difficult to see a single man-
To the west, you look down at curving lawns, past the tennis
court to the driveway and the entrance to the nature trail, which takes a walker through forest and farmland in a loop of Mount Pleasant’s 88 acres. To the east, you see large trees and the
made feature. The view is unique – of the old pastures of the foreground, down to the coast and the Caribbean Sea, right out to the horizon.
farm, now in regenerating forest, over a low forested hill in the
small outbuildings of the estate. And from the large family room, you look south across a small dance floor and a garden to the mature forest which embraces the southern side of the property.