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Except for a trip to the Hilo and to visit a friend. Miss Francis (veggie lady) will be here soon and her produce is fresh and good. I have some pix from other days which I haven't posted so here goes.
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Here is one of the white 2 person boats spoken of in another thread. I didn't have time to zoom in.
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This was a lucky photo of a Dr. Bird.
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Great Doctor bird photo.
Regards,
Bob
The colors are AMAZING!:biggrin-new:
Very nice Sue Love the bird one
Nice pics, es
Awesome photos!
Great pictures as always,thanks for sharing!
There has been lots of discussion on this board about the 2 seat speed boats being to close to the shore and the 3rd picture here is proof that this is a legitimate concern. Granted, it looks like the camera was zoomed in but it still appears that boat is well within the 600' zone where boats of that size can't be, and it sure appears that he is very close to the swim line. Someone, the marine police, Negril Chamber of Commerce, someone has to be in touch with with The Royalton and stop this before there is another tragedy occurs.
Brownsd54,
I am not aware of any 600ft rule that you are mentioning. There was a "5 year plan" submitted for 2013 which would have ended as of 2018. This is the plan you mentioned in the speed boat thread. As I stated in that thread, there has never been a non-motorized float ball marker line, so the plan, as submitted, was never implemented. The boats run in the same area as do the parasail boats and the boats that pull the couch/float thing. If the Royalton is abiding by the laws and staying out of the marked swimming areas as they are appearing to do by all accounts, another tragedy cannot occur.
As I have stated, they seem too close to me, but so do the other boating activities I mentioned. I wonder why absolutely no one is making any such complaints or statements about them?
And if you look at SLP's picture closely, you will notice that no one, even the person in the water, is taking notice of the boat.
The Interim Negril Marine Park Zoning Plan just states on the cover 2013-2018. I am assuming that mean to the end of 2018 and would like to think that the plan will change sometime over the next few months into a permanent plan or a second interim plan implemented. There is lots of valuable regulation in the interim plan and without it may just turn into a free-for-all as it was before. Just as an example, jet ski's or PWC are required to remain outside of the "non-motorized zone" and the "swim zone" (this is the 600' I am referring to) unless they are ingress or egress from the shoreline and only perpendicular to the shore and no more than 3Knts. With out that regulation it's possible for jet ski's to be all up and down the beach again and in conflict with the swimmers again.
The swim zone and non-motorize zone was implemented in 2013 as least up by Rutland point any way. There were white buoys for the swim zone and red buoys for the non-motorized zone. The theory was that no swimmer should be outside the white buoys (300' from shore)and no boat should be inside the red buoys(600' from shore). This separated swimmers and boats by 300'. Of course nobody ever explained that the the boat operators so they just used the 2 lines of buoys as a highway on the water and just drove between the lines. And of course the large buoys were blown away after the first big wave storm but they were there for at least one season.