Cave found in couple's backyard

[Wayne Harrison]

Discovery Bay, Jamaica:

When Raymond Kirlew decided to fulfil his wife's dream of having a swimming pool in their Dairy, St. Ann, backyard, he got two workmen to drill the flat rock on the location.

But the workmen were in for a surprise when, after drilling for more than a day, the jackhammer suddenly went through the rock.

David 'Black Boy' O'Brien, who was the drill operator, and Roger Abbott, his assistant, were startled. They widened the hole created by the drill, only to see a smooth, flat layer of rock.

They summoned Mr. Kirlew, who instructed them to remove the rest of the top layer. Having removed the floor of the original layer, they saw dark openings going through rocks below. There and then, Mr. Kirlew abandoned his project because he realised they had stumbled upon a cave.

(Why doesn't that ever happen to me?)

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