An aerial view of Pelican Bar, off the coast of Parottee in St Elizabeth, before it was destroyed by Hurricane Melissa on October 28.
UPROOTED, scattered, and battered — but not broken.
And we’re not just referring to the spirit of Pelican Bar owner Denever Forbes, more popularly known as Floyd, but also to the now-retrieved scrap wood and boards previously used to build the world-famous beach bar that’s no longer standing off the coast of Parottee, St Elizabeth, on a sandbar in the sea, after falling victim to Hurricane Melissa’s wrath.
Just shy of six weeks since the Category 5 system made landfall in the western end of Jamaica, leaving death and destruction in its wake, Forbes has been working feverishly to retrieve the boards — complete with inscriptions from past customers — that were washe
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