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Thanks, but it was the same thing everyone else on here woulda done had they been there, but was really scary!! As it turned out he had, had a seizure and was released from the hospital later that night. Hopefully we cross paths in January as apparently he goes to the same area every January and we will be there again!! I spoke with him 2 days later, right before we left but didn't have much time to visit!!
Glad to hear he is okay:)Quote:
Originally Posted by walleyed99
The Evening at the Jamaican Jazz and blue's festival was a lot of fun. the place was PACKED!! I wouldn't even wanna guess how many people were there, all the seats on the north side of the stadium were full and as far back as you could see there where people as well! It really was standing room only, now if you watched the news report that I posted last page, you would have seen how CRAZY the traffic was getting there. We were very lucky however, as we were there when the gate opened first thing so we got into the venue quickly and found seats easily. We were totally unaware of the melee outside, that was until the end of the concert. We wandered out of the stadium at the end after walking through some of the souvenir shops selling their wares some specifically for the JJBF, and some just regular Jamaican souvenirs you can pick up all over the island. We made our way out and around to the south side of the stadium where we had arranged to meet Latoya from Joe Cool Taxi, it was a total MOB! There was a dance party going on outside as someone had brought in a massive wall of speakers and people were dancing, drinking and partying! I was honestly just concerned with going to bed, the last week of wedding planning, cooking, partying, flights, more partying, hot sun, and beach had me EXHAUSTED!!! And all I wanted was a bed!!! This however wouldn't happen for quite awhile, as the traffic that had kept people from making the show, had everyone not able to leave. As well people had parked in the middle of the road all the way into the stadium, on the highway, EVERYWHERE! Roads were impassable, We were out of the concert at about 1:30 or so and we did not get underway for almost 3 hours! we didn't leave the parking spot for almost 2.5 hours! When we finally did get moving, it was total stop and go rushhour traffic til we were just outside of Montego bay. We stopped for fuel, drinks and some munchies at a gas station and were back on the road again, we finally arrived home at 6:30 or 7 am! It was to be our last day in Negril, there was only one problem...... I was too exhausted to do anything! We hit the hay and slept! About 3 hours later we will ourselves up and pushed ourselves back up to take in what would be our last day in Negril :(.
We really had nothing planned for the day except the Seastar Saturday night and were to be picked up at about 6:30 or 7. The rest of the day was ours. After Rum Cream and Coffee we cooked up the last of the Bacon and eggs we had, ate and decided to go and beach wander again. After the previous 2 trips through Hedo I figured the shock value would have worn off a bit for my wife and actually I was correct for the most part. I will go on the record as saying if anyone is thinking about going to Hedo and is ashamed of their goods, physique's, anything at all. DON'T BE, I didn't see any Greek GODs during our trips through there! That day I am really not too sure how far we made it, we had left the camera at home and were not taking pictures. We just walked the beach, drank beer, and ate wherever we felt, whenever we felt, It was GREAT! We were also still beat from our adventure the night before and would need a cat nap before we headed out that night so we headed back to the Condo. All that was left was one last triumphant walk through HEDO, I was fine with it and by this time my wife had almost come to accept it. We walked through relaxed, her with her head high shoulders back, nothing would surprise her! That was until we made it about 150 yards onto the the grounds...... Now previously there had really been nobody in this area when we had walked through there previous times there was a bunch of people there today. I had previously assumed this must be the PRUDE side as everyone was on the other side before, closer to PV. NOT today. All of a sudden my hand was in a DEATH grip and then it was released, then in a death grip, then released, the gripped then released and she exclaimed OH MY GOD!! Not terribly loud, but loud enough for people within 10-20 feet away to hear. I start looking around and it doesn't take me long to spot a couple going at it one the lounger dead ahead. She is on her back legs up, he is straddlin the leg portion of the chair. There is thrusting, rubbing, some squealing, there is ABSOLUTELY nothing left to the imagination. Again, I am not shocked easily, but I was a little surprised as I was not expecting to see this going on in broad daylight on the beach!! But I swear my wife was in TOTAL SHOCK!!!!!LOL, I still laugh when I think about it!!!! We make it through eventually, I stifled my laughter at her obvious SHOCK until we make it through the Nude section of HEDO, Through the C/O beach at PV and out to the path where I cannot hold it in. She is still repeating, I can't bel, I cannot , wow, they were just doin it!!!! I lose it! I have tears coming down my face, her expression and shock is priceless!!!! We head up for a nap, grab a quick smoke on the patio and crash out! We have about an hour or hour and a half before sunset, then pick up for Seastar!!!
I'm glad you didn't jump in and save her as well Walleye!
H3LL NO!!!LOL, we were only passing through Hedo, Not pitting in for a visit!!!
We were up in plenty of time to get ready and the bus was there in good time to take us to Seastar, The buffet was basic but really good and the facility did not disappoint! So much so we are booked for the upcoming 2013 reach and are very very excited!! As well, the entertainment was very very good as was the drinks! Again we called it a fairly early night cause we were still feeling the effects of a LLLLOOOOOONGGGGG night the previous night. We were back at the Condo at about 11-11:30 and my wife was asleep as soon as here head had hit the pillow, I was still not quite that tired so I retrieved the other Sub that I had tucked away and grabbed a six pack outta the fridge and a couple of drinks for the night security and headed out for a visit. Foyan our new friend who worked security was patrolling the ocean front part of the complex so I sat and visited with him for an hour or so, and enjoyed the sub and my surroundings, unfortunately our memorable week on Negril is rapidly coming to an end and there is no way to stop it. I wrap up my visit with our new friend as he has to head back up to the gate for the rest of the evening and head back up to the patio to finish my drinks and relax. The days have flown by and all I can do now is reflect on things, I was not a victim of sandgravity as most are, mostly cause I cannot sit still and am always moving around. This is much to the displeasure of my wife who could sit all day on the beach, while this drives me CRAZY!!!! Finally I head to bed, read for a bit and finally drift off, we have to be up fairly early so we can get over to the Negril Aerodrome to fly back to Montego Bay before continuing on to BRB. Good night all!
When morning arrives I am up early, probably the earliest of the trip so far. Maybe I am finally catching up on my sleep enough that I will maybe see sunrise once, yeah right today we meet friends at and All Inclusive resort and I'm pretty sure it will be a GONG SHOW!!! I call Rocky's for the short ride over to the Aerodrome and begin to gather the bags to haul out to the curb as he said he won't be too long, maybe an hour. We are packed and ready to roll when he arrives, in the meantime we head-out for a final wander around the grounds to take a few pictures. Here are a bunch of pictures from around Point Village, Very Very Quiet Place!!!!
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As we arrive back at the Condo we find someone looking for us, InterAirlink has sent over their driver to pick us up. We booked the flight weeks before, but they did not ask for payment. Since we had not payed them they wanted to make sure they were not flying over for no reason. Yikes we had already called ROCKY!!! A quick call to cancel so he would not come all this way for nothing, and we were all good. He had not left yet!! We quickly pull all our bags down to the waiting vehicle and we are off to catch our flight, my wife is FREAKING out! She flies alright on big planes even though she does not LOVE flying, but this small plane trip freaks her out! I have been telling her not to worry, but it is NOT working!!! After a short wait, the plane fly's in and they start to load all our bags onto it!Attachment 20004 I quickly run over to the ATM and run back to the Aerodrome while I am finishing a pre Boarding smoke, once I am done they tell us to hop on and we will be airborne shortly! The pilots to a quick pre flight check once we are buckled in and they fire up and taxi over to the start point, power up and down the runway we go. My wife is gripping my poor hand again in a death strangle until we are about 50 feet of the ground, then she exclaims, "this is great, I could get used to this"! I resist the urge to tell her, "told u so" she grabs the camera and starts clicking away as we do a loop over Negril, and do a flypast of PV and Bloody Bay. If you have not done this flight before I highly recommend it! It is Gorgeous!!!! Here are a few pictures along the way!!
This is looking down the main road toward Hedo, PV and BGN
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Here is a shot of the beach, sea, and you can see the edge of Couple Swept Away
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Here is a shot of Hedo on the right and PV on the left
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Here you can see Booby Cay on the bottom left, Point Village and Bloody bay in the background with the 2 Riu's
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These are the rock-pools that I spoke about, this is where you take in the sunsets and there is great snorkeling all around here. Of the 2 buildings we stayed in the right hand building, second floor, first suite on the left!
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Here you can see the highway snaking around, following the shoreline.
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Grand Palladium
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Fancy Coastal Homes and rental properties
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Wow - great report and great photos! I flew from Negril to Kingston about 20 plus years ago but never on a bright clear day like this! Looking forward to the rest of your report in Runaway Bay!:cool:
Not sure this is the place for it, this is the Negril Forum!! :)
Great report and pictures. So nice to see Negril area from the air. And nice to hear the fellow traveler you helped is OK.
Here is the Landing at Mo Bay airport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai-0LB82DeU
[QUOTE=walleyed99;73214]Here is the Landing at Mo Bay airport
Full stall landing. Thanks for the video. I used to fly small planes.
Glad you liked it captaind!!!!! It was an excellent experience that everyone should get to experience once!
I flew into MBJ from Negril in the left seat with a guy who didn't exactly tell me that the plane was kinda' "borrowed" from his wife's family.
But that's another story .........
Fell out of my cube laughing at that one!Quote:
I'm glad you didn't jump in and save her as well Walleye!
Props Walleyed, great report. Good work in the sea there and I'm glad you didn't have any serious reaction or infection from your sea urchin encounters. Adrenaline is somethin' else, eh? How long do you think before you realized you'd stepped in it again? The Hedo story? Hilarious!!
My girlfriend and I got to witness such an event when capt. Jack drove us by in his boat. Woman on top when she saw all of us watching she put on quite a show. I remember the Englishman saying oh my I do beleive they are shagging!Quote:
Originally Posted by Guirigay
Yeah, I actually managed to get all but one spine out that day thank goodness! The one that I couldn't get out hurt once in awhile but was tolorable, and it actually got inflamed a bit after we got back to Canada. That Said I gave it a Lil squeeze and it just popped out, and didn't hurt anymore!! It was painful to stand at the concert though, but gave me some brownie points with my new wife!! Thanks for reading, I will hopefully get started on week 2 one of these days, just been really really busy lately!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Guirigay
so u know for next time, just have someone pee on it,pain gone., and a funny story on how it got peed on.
I have been so busy that I have not really had time to expand on week 2! I know its not Negril, but it was an extension of our Negril trip so I will tell the story, keeping it a brief as possible!! We land in Mobay, and get off the plane and wait for the bags to be pulled out so we can figure out how we are getting to Breezes for week 2. Once the bags are unloaded we make out way into the airport, only issue here as since most people are flying "back" to Sangsters is that they are on the way home, therefore you come into the airport in the Departure side and the Breezes Booth is on the other side. The fella who unloaded our bags said "No Problem Mon" I will go get somebody and you will be fine. He helped us with our bags and headed into the arrivals area to get someone from Breezes to get us a ride! May as well grab a couple of Red Stripes out side and chill while we waited!! I head off to the bar and grab a couple beers while we wait, in typical Jamaican time a gal from Breezes arrives and says it will be about 15 Minutes and we will be on our way. The whole Jamaican Time is a NON-issue, we still have a week in paradise and we grab another beer, a chair and relax and take in the hustle and bustle of the airport. In total it has taken us about 50 minutes from the time we were off the plane until our ride picks us up. Shorter than the time to drive from Negril, and if you add in the flight time about the same. No time saved, but the view to die for!
Plane, Pilot and Shellie
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Paperboy outside arrivals
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View with a beer!
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Our ride is here!!
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