The fish were gone
Personal memory by Andra A.
2015 CE • Ocho Rios, Jamaica
All the tropical fish that once graced the North Coast of Jamaica were gone when I traveled there in 2015. Just 32 earlier that same coastal stretch teemed with tropical fish. I still have the conch shell from my earlier visit. But in 2015 the fish were all gone!
Memory submitted at One Life: Maya Lin, National Portrait Gallery, 2022-2023
Image: James Holloway via Flickr, Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0)
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