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A six month unaccompanied posting to British Guyana in 1965. These pictures are scanned from colour slides taken with a Kodak Retinette. Apart from the costal strip there were no roads so travel was by river, light aircraft or Landrover

Georgetown via Brmuda
	Bel Air Hotel Bermuda	Disembarking at Bermuda	Atkinson International Airport Georgetown
Garrison HQ	Lighthouse Georgetown	The Catholic Church	Duke Street
Flame in the Forest Tree		Amazonia Lillies	Country Shack, small kids wear no pants
Garrison HQ. NB Bill Bird's cage (not locked)	Traffic	Garrison Officers Mess	Cutting Sugar Cane before burning was introduced
Fishing off the Mole	Canal Bridge	Showing his catch	Fishing with a throw net
Georgetown Shawbrook Market	Bill Bird, the Garrison symbol and Mascot who was free to wander about	Our house shared by three officers	The school opposite from my bedroom
Bus Station for "Luxury Liners"	Kings Regt Officers Mess	Main Street	Booker Brothers Dept Store they owned plantations, refineries, breweries etc
Parliament	Main Street	The large wooden cathedral beyond	Shopping Street
An old house, signed "Barrister at Law" and Bike repairs	The Town hall	Donkey Carts in New Starbrook	Orchid on a tree
Drainage canal	Squeezing sugar cane for a cold drink	Tailor	"Porknocker"
Jamaican style "Yard" or Lot	Alley	Derelict building	"Yards"
Fish for sale	Homeless shacks, people are living here	Wheelwright	Market Place
Town hall lit up for the Queen's Visit		"Hand in hand" Insurance Building	Cycle Repair shop
Hands permanently on hips?	Card game in the shade	The Sergeants Mess	Roadside sales
Collared Peccaries in the zoo	Macaws	Anteater	Flamingos
The Guyana Defence Force firing Ceremonial guns rehearsing for the Queen's Visit	We were trying to recruit and train a balanced defence force but the South Asians tended to resign	The G.D.F. put down an insurrection, financed by Venezuela, shortly after Independence
The Disused Railway Station	Part of Shawbrook Market	Police Outriders, we weren't really involved with the visit	The Queen and Prince Phillip
The coastal area
My transport	Disused railway bridge	Sluice gate, built by the Dutch	Bridge over the Canje River
		A village	Demerara Ferry
	Gold diggings	Bauxite Mines
Georgetown, note Grid format	Timber Boats	GDF Traning Camp at Bartica	A mosque in Georgetown
Trip on the Demarara River
Street Market	Selling Fruit Parika Jetty	Parika Jetty	A snake in the Loo caused panic so Cpl Reilly caught it and threw it in the river
Ferry Terminal	Loading	Loaded up	Watching the stone quarry, one of the very few
Brick Church Bartica	Fort Island	Penal Colony, Sibley Hall	Picking up passengers
Riverside Farm	Sugar Refinery Rose Hall	Dugout	Sibley Hall
	Police Launch	Fighting through the water hyacinths. Carl supervises	Bill Bird, a Toucan with a taste for beer and a bad temper in the morning
Amerindians sometimes only black and white film was available
Gold Mine Manager	Seventh day Adventists have converted them. Note the flat pan to left front,	Giant Mora Tree	Dug Out
Native Hut	True Caribs	Note the Cassava squeezers	The Christianised Amerindians wear western clothes
Diamond dredging	Not yet converted!		Mount Roirama at edge of the Escarpment
A Forester	Preparing cassava	Countryside houses	No toddlers wear pants
Rupernuni Trail
On a two plank bridge	Rest House	Plank bridge	A ford
The trail was frequently blocked by fallen trees but the bridges held up despite being very flimsy. We had limited time and so did not get as far as intended. The animals and natives hear us coming and hid, but at the trading posts they knew who we were and what we were doing, Jungle Drums?	Another ford	A Jungle Track	Playing Tarzan
Note Garrison logo, a white toucan	Jungle Pool	Another Rest House	"Three Friends" Rest house
Slightly better rest house	Montezuma Oropendula nests	Admiring the nests	Recovery necessary!
Kaitur Falls
The Airstrip	Kaitur Gorge	Low flow as it is the dry season. A lot of water vaporises as it falls	Illegal diamond dredging
Kaitur Gorge Wall	Manganese mines. There is a village attached. We landed on their road. I was asked to answer the school kids questions!	Gold diggings	After some rain
The airstrip at Kaitur on the escarpment			I was there
Banana Tree, escaped?	A Trading post	Pineapple, escaped?	Smaller falls
Trinidad on my way home
Decorated house	Trinidad Park	s A Cinema	Trinidad Governors House