gettin my groove on "TRIP report" boardie bash style--april21-may11,2013

Good stuff

about1 pm, we head back to shields to pack andmove to catcha..we have permission to take our time, move when we got ready....after everything is packed, I jump in pool one last time to cool off....

last few pics of shields
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How did you like Bettie and Johns" smoking pipes? Something about vapor and smokeless, but they smoke the REAL thing in them...even at breakfast!

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How did you like Bettie and Johns" smoking pipes? Something about vapor and smokeless, but they smoke the REAL thing in them...even at breakfast!

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interesting couple...vaporizer, and yes breakfast, lunch, and dinner....she was the "guest relations" lady...she made sure u were ok, and didnt need anything...Janet loved them....I usually just do my thing while she socializes...

the vaporizer is smokeless, to avoid the smell, and more importantly, apparantly John has breathing issues, and the smokeless helps him self medicate, w/o inhaling all that smoke...I tried it a couple of times, not my thing....

Trip report continued, trying to get this thing finished...

we get our driver to take us to Catcha Falling Star....when we get there, our room is not ready....the maid, donna, is still in the room...I walk in, she is in the bathroom, most of the room was ready and I told her I was gonna go ahead and briing my bags over..ok, she said...before i left the room, I look under the bed to see if my freind had any leftover refreshments....nothing, look under mattress, nothing, donna walks in and ask me if I was looking for something, I tell her what I am doing, and she laughs....I do find a beach towel and some bug spray, that we used and left the remainder when we left...we go to the pool and in a few minutes, donna comes and calls me over to her....she tells me she found what I was looking for and told me where to look for it...thanks bud....

Jamaica flag at ricks and the lighthouse from catcha


Janet and Rick


the seas are rough



Janet and Rick and Carolyn at Catcha

Did you find a bra by any chance? lol

those pics do not match the post...sorry ...and no bra...lol..

Flag and Lighthouse from catcha
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Janet, Rick, Carolyn, and the rough seas
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Janet and I want to walk back to Negril Escape and take another pic from the lighthouse...on the way we see a couple kids..
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Pictures from Negril Escape, and me in the lighthouse..
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Jamaica Terry--hat, shirt, swim trunks, and bag...lol
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the seas are rough...
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beginning of the sunset from negril escape
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we walk over to tensing pen to view the bridge..I have seen many pics from this bridge and gonna get mine taken..seas to rough to jump today, but maybe before I leave..

the Bridge
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from the bridge
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Janet at Tensing Pen
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Catcha from Tensing Pen
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me on the bridge
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the sunset from tensing pen
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Is that your new bag? Nice! Love reading about your trip and seeing all the wonderful photos. Man you folks keep busy! We spent a week at Charela in May and parked ourselves on the beach each day and walked right and left. That was it, except for a cab ride to the cliffs one afternoon. Even Captain Kirk said on our last day, is today the day that you are going to do something? No, sir, we are doing what we came to do. We love Negril and we love to read about other folks trips.

walk back to catcha, stop by and pick up a brownie on the way to enhance the nights festivities, whatever they may be...

dinner at catcha
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the flag again, the seas over the ledge and cliffs of catcha falling star
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after dinner and a shower we head down to the bar to have a nightcap or two with our friends and who do we see?

Jambarney and his wife Badazz???, Rob and Lisa, and the rest of our group..Larry, Rina, Rick and Carolyn
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Larry brought some Chinese candles/lanterns that we all set off...my first time doing this and it is a great time...
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Janet, Rina, Lisa
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More of the lanterns
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we have a few more at Ivans bar, and after they get ready to close, it is announced that some of us are gonna do another drink or two at the corner bar...so most of us piled in with rob and lisa and the others caught a ride with a friend of robs...

we have a few brews, at the corner bar, ate a few subs, and I did some people watching...when I walk to town from the beach, i usually sit here to people watch...lots more action during the day...
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I found that same crab in the tub and I put him outside. Guess he came back in.


Glad you got to meet Jamb and wife. 2 of my favorite people we have met so far on our trips. A blast to hang out with.

I Love your Trip Report I will be visiting Negril in Septemeber with 7 of my girls friends. This report has me so excited

SIIICk report groove! makes me want to pull some triggggggers!!!!

Thanks, guys for all the comments...

This was Monday, day 16, and we are on our full day at Catcha...Janet wakes up with a bit of a headache/earache....I let her sleep a bit, but I am anxious to see if we can get into the water today...It has been high seas up here and they haven't let people in the sea for a few days...the waves were not as high as yesterday, but still a little rough, and the chain still blocks the entrance to the sea...

but the views are still breath taking...
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I get Janet up and we grab the loungers here for the day

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Finally they open the sea for us to swim in...Rina and I are very excited....

a couple of pics of Rina and I
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More pics of Rina and I playing on the cliffs of catcha
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Larry, Rina, Rick and Carolyn all share the Aquarius room at Catcha, (I think it is Aquaius) It is two bedroom and it is beautiful...but forget the rooms, the view is amazing...the most amazing view from a room yet....
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look at the dreads on this guy
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walk to the wise choice store, and take a pic of where u can get the best burger in negril, imo....
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Since tomorrow was out last day, I wanted to get the most out of today....Rina larry and janet wanted to do Red Dragon for pork and cold beer...Monday is a good day for that...we had been wanted to go for a couple of trips now, but never got to it...I wasn't planning on going, but changed my mind at last minute...glad I did...great pork, and a great time...Jamb and his wife were there, as well as a few others, and Lisa arrived a little later...rob has some errands to run, so we get to enjoy her company all to ourselves...lol...
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a couple pics of Janet and a few signs around the place
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the great jerk pork and very cold red stripe
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Janet and Lisa
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Rasta Monkey makes his way around the bar, even the bartender can't get the monkey off his back, lol...
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by the time rasta monkey gets to me, it is time to turn it up a little...pervert...lol

I "spank" the monkey
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getting ready to leave, we run into more kids and feed a few dogs...
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we get back to catcha, and it is back to the pool and the sea....

I see someone famailiar, and it is my driver, Kingsley....he is dropping someone off, and confirming other arrangements...He confirms ours as well...
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and then 3 wild things

the boat, Rina, and myself, lol...
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we walk over to Ricks Cafe and Janet takes a few pics...If u look close, u can see jumping from the cliffs

Rina and I are the only ones that really enjoy the jumping, the only problem with jumping is the long climb back up the ladder...but anyway
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and the beautiful sunsets at catcha
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Janet at sunset
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we light up our 6 candles on our veranda...
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a great night with some great company....

Thanks Groove! I'm sad your TR is coming to an end, what am I going to read every morning?? Lovin' the pics of Catcha :)

I hope you decide to extend your stay, we want more pics!

Groove,

That pork at Red Dragon looks delicious. Is there anything else besides pork on the menu?

Timm

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Groove,

That pork at Red Dragon looks delicious. Is there anything else besides pork on the menu?

Timm

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Hey Timm,

I dont know what else they have on the menu....The beers were the coldest I had on the trip, though....The pork was great, not fatty like some of the pork in Negril....But we all had the pork, it was ready and looked good...

Been reading ur posts for years...

Terry

2nutz and justchuck...glad u are enjoying it....got a few more to share...

the trip continued

Tuesday 5/7/13...We get up today and it is a bitter sweet morning, it is sweet cuz we are still in paradise and a beautiful day...bitter cuz it is our last day...

Well Janet wakes up with an earache which is worse and she says the pain feels like it is in her jaw...After talking to Rina, who is a diver, she said she thinks she has an ear infection....she also says she needs to get that looked at before she flys, because if it is bad enough, it might bust her eardrum....what?...yeah something about the change in altitude....Really?...We talk to that lady at the front desk and she agrees that Janet needs to have it looked at...she calls a doc and we talk to the doc on the phone and he asks Janet a few questions about the pain and blah, blah, blah, thinks she might have ear or sinus infection, he has a office in sav and negril and was on the way to negril when we got him...he said he would come by catcha and be there soon....he also said if it was ear infection, not to fly for 3 days...

now what? we are to picked up by kingsley in about 3 hours to fly out.....well we are packed, so we walk around and enjoy the grounds at catcha...I swim and jump for the last few times...look at the blue water...
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the boats that pass by catcha
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well after an hour or so, the doctor has not gotten to catcha, so we call him again...he says he is not gonna make it to catcha, but we can come to his office....

so we do the only thing that we can think of....we call kingsley, and tell him to not pick us up, and then we call the airline....we change our flights to saturday...the flight is a little less, but there is a change fee....and we can submit our doctors excuse for review to get reimbursed for the change fee...

so we have extended our vacation....this wasn't our intentions, we needed to get home to our animals, our housesitter was already there for 2 weeks, and my softball teams had taken 2 weeks off and was expecting me to pitch on saturday...but 3 days was friday, so we didnt want to push it...

we exchange more $$$, since we have a few more days...never had a 5000 before
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well, we hang with our group at catcha until time for us to go to the appt.... the doctors office is in this plaza, on the way to sav...
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the doctor office and slot machines in the same plaza
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I laugh every time that i see the doctors name....DR. Ganja Ready...lol
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well, he examined her ears, and said it looked red and a little swollen in there, but said not serious at all...cleaned it out a little with some alcohol and was gonna give her a script for antibotics, but I travel with some amoxicillen just in case.....so he said that would be great...so Janet is gonna live, and we have 3 more days in paradise...

after the office visit, we walk toward the roundabout...

pass by this sign
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we stop by a couple of houses on the side of the road...we saw the kids in the yard, and Janet had a few more things to give away...
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before we left for the doctor, we had to switch rooms at catcha, as someone had gemini, for that night....we just did one night, because rina and the gang were all leaving tomorrow and we would move to the beach...we got a GREAT deal on the room in the building with Aquarius and our friends...it is the room under the stairs with NO view...but it is a nice room....

we continue our walk from the docs toward the roundabout and finally we flag down a route taxi. we get him to drop us off at 3 dives....It is the tuesday night party and we get to hear Gary Cooper one more time...
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This would happen to be our last webcast...we made plans for canoe on thurs, but we didnt make it there....we dont know many people here tonight, Jamb and his wife, and JaJodi and husband Bill....Rob and Lisa....the rest we did not know...but we still had a great time...just kept to ourselves and partied and i made many tours of the grounds...lol...

the sunset was nice again...I think I am obsesssed with sunsets in Negril...
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red stripe gets into the sunset action

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and a fire at 3 dives
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Larry, Rina, Rick, and Carolyn decided to skip 3 dives...it is their last night so they wanted to eat at Aubees, so that is what we did...Great burgers and fries....

this is the wise choice store sign....funny...the Craven A warning, and then a WISE CHOICE...lol
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we get a couple of brownies for the veranda and head back to catcha....

Rina gets a call from Ken, her dive master, and they are at LTU, so we head over there for a drink and some goodbyes...
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Larry had saved some Chinese candle lanterns for the last night..we set these off, as we enjoy the company of our friends for one last night...since it is the last night, we have to try to clean out the fridge and consume all the drinks, subs, brownies, that we can....cant take it with ya, so gotta consume it if we can....there are a lot of beers in that fridge, and we do the best that we can...a great night...we laughed with each other, and now I am getting a little mushy as I write this...I miss u guys, Rina, Larry, Carolyn and Rick.....Thanks for making our vacation the best ever....I gotta start diving with yall, gonna get me some barrracuda repellant and I will be ready...lmao at myself...OMG....I am sorry this report took a side track, but these guys helped make the trip what it is, so........

Awwww.....Groove is getting mushy again. Just kidding man.....you know that "real men get mushy" right? I was going to say that I was sorry to hear that the weather took a bit of a turn on you (luckily it was the day we left, haha) but now that I hear you extended your stay I dont feel so bad. ;) Hmmmmmmm.....lets see..... an ear ache you say? I will have to remember that one. (only kidding of course, Im glad it turned out OK!) The more I read about your good times and see all your great pics, the more I wished we could have extended our stay a few more days. Oh well, like you said......maybe next year! Hey, I might PM you about your "pepper man" if thats ok? Great trip report! Im sorry to see that its coming to an end.

feel free to pm me anytime...i have a couple regulars that I use and have turned others on to....