Hail to the Hive!

I continued my aerial exploration of the surrounding area yesterday, heading in the direction of the town of Sav la Mar.

In the distance I saw what almost looked like a football stadium in the top right of the display and decided to go and have a closer look ( as long as I could maintain signal as I was over 1.5km from home base).

As I got closer it still resembled a sports stadium and car park from the air with what I initially thought were cars were ‘parked’ in the grounds of what seemed to be a church.

Suddenly I could see that they weren’t parked cars at all and what was ‘parked’ there was definitely in long stay parking. They were graves!

I was in fact flying over what a Jamaican taxi driver once described to me as an “ undagroun otel” ( underground hotel ).

The view of all the graves from the air certainly gave me an interesting perspective and my mind drifted back to stories of people’s spirits looking down on the world etc as the passed on to whatever realm lies beyond.

I didn’t feel what I was doing was in anyway disrespectful, certainly no more so than the youths playing football in the field next door. Life continues and the graves all next to each other made me naturally think of many things, friends and family that have passed, memories of time spent with those no longer with us. I would say that’s a positive thing all in all.

Feeling thoughtful and noticing that the battery had reached 50% I decided to turn around and make my way back. A bit like when I’m diving and my tank gets to half full really.

The drones return journey faced the mountains in the background and that combined with the greenery and blue skies made for pretty visuals as I guided the bird home.

And then, as always, one final look back…..