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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.
And you are right Rob, nobody seems to be paying any attention to that boat in the picture. To be honest, those boats look like a lot of fun, but boats and swimmers should never be in the same general area. That just spells disaster.
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Originally Posted by brownsd54
I completely agree. I personally think all the boats are too close. But that is not the law. The "plan" was apparently just that, a plan, not the law. As you wrote, "There were white buoys for the swim zone and red buoys for the non-motorized zone." Other than by Rutland Point (Point Village), no one has ever seen the red bouy or any non-motorized markers on the main beach. As well the plan's regulations for jetskis have been far surpassed by the new law.
As the plan was worded, it is obvious that it has never been implemented as originally planned.
The buoys were out and in fact the stainless steel anchors for the buoys are still in place, but the buoys are long gone. Not sure if government officials just wanted to mark the area between Point Village and Booby Cay because of the high boat traffic that's being bottle necked in that area or they just started at Rutland Point and then ran out of money. Rob, any chance you could post a link to the "new jet ski law".
Brownsd54,
Seeing as Point Village would have the responsibility for the swimming bouys, we know where they came from. As for the red bouys, since they disappeared after being washed away and no other such bouys were marking any other place, it would not be logical to assume that the government ran out of money. The plan you mentioned never referred to "red" bouys, just floating markers. This would suggest some other reason for the red markers you saw.
Back in 2014 we had lengthy discussions about this topic. This below thread references a few news articles as well as the intial regulations on jetskis first presented because of the Jamaican child being killed on the beach in Ochi by a tourist:
https://negril.com/forum/showthread....ki+regulations
The government initial response that had limited success created a call for new measures after the tourist incident in Negril:
http://www.mot.gov.jm/speeches/measu...pwc-operations
In 2016 the discussion continued with more information about the regulations and reality:
https://negril.com/forum/showthread....ons#post180216
Both these threads occurred during the timeframe of the plan you have mentioned.
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Wow!! Here is one for you Rob. Just going back through my pictures of Negril and I found this one from 2007. It clearly shows the white swim lines dotting along most property lines, then the larger white (swim Zone) buoys and red Non-motorized) buoys all the way down the beach. This picture was taken from the deck at White Sands and probably on a pina colada Sunday which might explain the blurred picture (looked focused to me through the camera). Obviously the buoy's didn't last long because neither one of us remember them all the way down the beach.
Wow is right! That is going back a little bit in time!
I don't remember those bouys and have no idea what they were marking back then. There appears to be at least two motorized watercraft and possibly 4 or more within the red bouys. I have video from back then, maybe it will shed some light on this. I will also check with the members of the Chamber who were position holders back then to see what they can recollect. While at first glance it looks like what was mentioned in the plan, the picture was taken about 5 years before the plan was conceived.