Fifteen hundred metres of passage on the north coast with a crystal-clear underground lake at the far end, and a history of people hiding in it. The Arawak were first and left pottery and tools. Spanish refugees used it, and so did escaping enslaved people, which is why one of its older names was Runaway Caves. Smugglers worked out of it between the wars, and in the Second World War the government stored rum at the mouth. Nine of Jamaica’s 21 bat species live here. The lower levels are brackish and hold barnacles and other sea creatures. If it looks familiar, it was in Live and Let Die in 1973.
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