"Where is Hellshire beach?"

“Hellshire no longer has a beach.

Sea level rise is so real.

Climate change we now feel.

“Mother Nature” our creator will she heal?

The more the water comes into the land the less land there is.

It will take only years to hear the island is sinking……”

These photos were taken one day on a visit to Hellshire beach in St.Catherine, Jamaica. I hadn’t been there in several years but the last time I was there it was already changing; there was an erosion of the shoreline due to sea level rise.

I was surprised at what I saw. There was no beach. Just a pool where children and adults splash. Bolders erected to barracade rising waters and of course fish and festival shops.

When did Hellshire disappear?

A tower now stands on the beach. A project under the Korean Institute of Technology to monitor the rising waters at Hellshire.

Climate change has impacted Jamaica. The residents of the Hellshire beach community are so vulnerable to a visible injustice.

What has caused the sea level to rise like this?

Global warming.