Pontoon off the beach facing Alfred’s or the Grand Pineapple?

Hello bordies,

I’ll be making a second trip to Negril next week. Last time around, in 2015 we stayed at Rooms. A few hundred yards off the beach, into the water, facing Alfred’s or the Grand Pineapple, was a pontoon I’d swim to every morning. I was just wondering if it’s still there? I can’t seem to find any mention of it anywhere.

Yes, it Is there! happened to be making a video and caught the platform in the background yesterday! The video is in our Videos section!

https://negril.com/forum/ytm.php?do=watch&m=52

Thank you Rob!

Your video brings back happy memories of our last trip. Having the Sunnyside, Rasta Ade and Kamaras right next to the hotel & on the beach was what made us decide to go back to Rooms. We'll be asking for a room facing Woodstock this time around. Hearing the roosters behind Sunnyside at 4am was not pleasant to say the least.

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Originally Posted by Spag

. Hearing the roosters behind Sunnyside at 4am was not pleasant to say the least.

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You have to get used to the roosters. They crow at all hours so if yours only crowed at 4:00am you were lucky :biggrin-new: The one in my yard crows all the time.

i love crowing roosters!!!

Sue, they crow so often that you don't even notice them! :encouragement:

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Originally Posted by mwenvlay

i love crowing roosters!!!

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I have to agree!

I'm a light sleeper, they just keep me up at night. On our last trip which lasted 10 days, I didn't get used to them.

I'm sure it would be different if I had to hear them on a regular basis. We do get used to the noise in the city when we live there.

In Jamaica it was traditional that the “cock of the walk” in the yard (alpha rooster) was named Mas Percy.

Mas Percy was the one who would start the crowing at night. Usually the trigger was another rooster on the other side of the the hill. This would kick off a twenty minute chorus from all around the valley.

Another tradition was that once a year you got to eat Mass Percy. By that time there was a “little” Percy that was already challenging Mas Percy for being the BMOC.

With every bite you remembered the 4:00 AM wake up call he’d do.

One time we had visitors from the states and for whatever reason it was decided we’d cook Mas Percy for diner.

Can you imagine 4 Americans from the Northeast trying to run down a rooster on foot over 6 acres? .......................They also enjoyed eating him.

It was a wonderful night

Cap

If something was crowing outside my window every morning at 4am, it wouldn’t take me a year to kill it!

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Originally Posted by JohnNYC

If something was crowing outside my window every morning at 4am, it wouldn’t take me a year to kill it!

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No rooster...no eggs. Gotta have him

Great story Captain Dave.

The rooster who kept waking me up on our last trip would have all my attention if it was time to eat Mass Percy.

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Originally Posted by Rob

I have to agree!

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awwww, rob- i knew you were a good egg!!!

btw, my sister and her husband were the ones who did the bar crawl the other way with you, a few weeks ago. she said they had a great time (and confirmed your awesomeness).

I’m a city boy, so I don’t know, but does a rooster need it’s voice box to help produce eggs? Maybe just a little duct tape strategically placed.

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Originally Posted by JohnNYC

I’m a city boy, so I don’t know, but does a rooster need it’s voice box to help produce eggs? Maybe just a little duct tape strategically placed.

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meanie!!!

chickens and goats are the best!!!

i grew up in eastern long island in the 70s/80s and our across the street neighbors had chickens. it was funny because we did not live in the country at all, but in a recently built housing development. back then, things like keeping chickens in your yard weren't regulated. i'm sure that wouldn't fly today.

but i also remember in the early/mid 90s in negril, when herds of goats roamed the cliffs road from beginning to end. you don't see that anymore, at all.

I live on eastern Long Island now and live animals, but I value what little sleep I get. A few of my neighbors have horses, and one even has a rooster. Luckily it’s not close enough to hear from inside the house.
My sister runs a charity that raises goats. They’re a blast, but you wouldn’t want a male within half a mile during mating season!!
I guess I have a case of NIMNBY. Not in my neighbors back yard!

It's like trains for me. No one wants to live by the tracks but I did for years and not only got used to the sound but had trouble sleeping when the CN went on strike for a month, too quiet. In JA we can here the tree frogs and roosters and we find it soothing, the only thing that can be irritating to us is the rice rockets first thing in the morning. We've learned a room a little further off the road is a gem.

That reminds me of the time I was looking for a short term apartment to bridge the end of a project & the start of a new one in a different city. I found a small apartment annexed to the local train station. I was literally sleeping next to the tracks. It was fine weekdays, having to get up early and all. Weekends was a whole other story...

i woke up every morning to a goat bleating to get out and eat and someone yelling "shut up" i later learned he was being fatting up for christmas! i bet if her knew that he wouldn't be in such a hurry to eat!

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Originally Posted by captaind

No rooster...no eggs. Gotta have him

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You can have eggs without a rooster, we do. Just no fertile eggs that would hatch. Roosters protect the flock and have different calls for many uses. Warnings of danger, keeping other roosters at bay and just plain old messaging. Chickens are dumb and roosters keep things running smoothly.
Traditionally brown stew was for the old roosters and old egg layers that are tough and stringy. Fried and other types of fast cooking would be young chickens of both sexes.