Accommodation at Windsor:
A Remote Field Station
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| Room 1 | Room 2 |
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The Windsor Orchestra (Snoring Frog, Laughing Frogs & insects) |
The owner of Windsor House (wildlife ecologist Dr. Susan Koenig) has bedroom accommodation available for visiting field researchers and she’s happy to accommodate other intrepid visitors.
The two primary rooms are in a reconstructed out-building. Both rooms have twin-size beds and solar-heated showers. Room 2 also has a swanky flush toilet, which supercedes the double pit toilet near the "it's just resting" little Nibby tractor in the workshop. Room 1 occupants have to trek across the yard for the communal loo.
In a pinch, overflow accommodation (Room 3) can be made available in the main house with the communal loo and shower facilities (cold water only!)
at the end of the ground-floor corridor.
Room 3 has a full-size bed and, for bat-lovers, wild Glossophaga antillarum occasionally flying in the corridor.
Every sound in Room 3 travels up through the wooden floorboards, so if you snore you'll be moved to the dog house :-)
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Windsor offers BASIC amenities; it definitely doesn’t meet the definition of “glamping” (glamorous camping). It is a quirkily-functional facility for back-to-basics naturalists and researchers who understand that being able to step outside the bedroom door and immediately start recording observations means that the area has MINIMAL development and services. |
The house operates on solar electricity -- there are no public utilities in Windsor. Supply and outlet configurations match to the US system of 120V, 60 Hz. During the summertime electricity is abundant, but we have to think about conserving power in the winter months of December, January and February. Ice cubes are always considered a luxury, even in summer!
Water is pumped from the Martha Brae River and stored in a holding tank, which gravity-feeds to the house. A swim in the river is refreshing . . .if the mosquitoes don't eat you first.
Laundry service: an outside laundry sink is available for visitors to wash their clothes by-hand (the proper Jamaican way!).
Phone service: The nearest cell phone towers are in Sherwood Content -- 5-km from Windsor -- , so you can decompress and enjoy being without any mobile signals. Once you pass the last house on the Sherwood Content road, you won't have a signal as you continue on to Windsor unless you carry in a 10-m tall antenna mast!
Room Prices:
Single occupancy = USD 45
Double occupancy = USD 50
Triple occupancy = USD 60
Meals:
A simple, open-air cooking area, with 2-burner gas stove and solar-powered fridge, is available for guests to prepare their own meals.
Kitchen usage is USD 10 per person per day.
If you would prefer to hire a gentleman named Sugarbelly to prepare a proper Jamaican dinner, email me (Susan): wrc.jamaica@gmail.com
I'm not able to process credit cards but accept all major currencies.
All contributions are used to support my efforts to protect Cockpit Country from the ravages of bauxite mining.
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