Ian Fleming was a British author born 100 years ago. Fleming is best remembered for creating the character of James Bond in his adopted island of Jamaica. Goldeneye the writer’s villa in Oracabessa is today an exclusive resort known for its exotic gardens.

The three-bedroom villa at Goldeneye, where Fleming wrote most of his stories featuring Agent 007 costs up to $3, 400 a night.

This is the private beach at Goldeneye. the author often trod there with fins mask and spear in hand. He lived in Jamaica when you could get there by banana boat, and he described Negril on the west coast as a “five-mile crescent of unbroken, soft, white gold sand, fringed for all its dazzling length with leaning palm trees.

The picture displays Fleming’s gardener, left, who still works at Goldeneye.

Fleming and his wife Ann weremarried in Port Maria’s town hall. She didn’t share her husband’s love of Jamaica, however never staying as long on the island as he would.