I too find this fascinating. I first went to Negril in the mid 90s and remember how wide the beach was then. The way I have always gauged the beach was how far out in the water that restaurant was at NTH. Just last June, I walked down that stretch of beach a few different days and always had to come up onto the NTH property, walk up to the restaurant area by the pool, and then back down to the beach to get past it without wading into fairly deep water by going in front.