West End Tales: July 2023

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After breakfast we walked up to the West End Road and grabbed a route taxi to Mi Yard, had settle up the bill from last night.

WLked to Canoe and Carla stored our phones and keys behind the bar.
Into the water with my new snorkel gear and short fins. Went left around the pier then across to the other side of Canoe about 50 yards out. Abundant fish of many varieties!

Water was nice and warm, no seaweed and crystal clear!

Absolutely marvelous time. Spent an hour snorkeling.

Chilled the porch and ordered an early lunch. Carla did a great job keeping Happy happy!

Route taxi downtown to ATM, then another one back to SeStar lane. Quick jump in the pool to cool off and now nap time.

Dinner tonight at LTU.

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Beautiful morning here at Seastar.

Sunday night at Ricky’s B’day Bash Fernando showed up to sing a song or two. He used to sing at Seastar Saturday nights. That night there was a 100 Year Party on the West End Road for Inez Hylton. She had 13 Kids, 49 grand kids, 76 great grand kids and 18 great great grand kids! It was a major party, we tried to stop by, but no parking.

Yesterday was a chill day after snorkeling. Garret drove us to Meka’s bar on the West End not far from Seastar Lane. Then on to LTU for dinner and drinks. Serena kept us supplied with cold red stripes. Ricky stopped by, Garret showed up with his son and daughter, Kaneal and Adrianna. Dinner was chicken Lola, no pumpkin soup last night. Later on Scar face and Garret showed up on their scooters and we hopped a ride back to Seastar, were Osheen did a wonderful job keeping everyone at the bar happy.

More snorkeling today.

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Photos:
My favorite Negril shirt

Road work in front of Mi Yard.
One guy on a scooter with one bucket of cement.
Please express our gratitude to the MP for a job well done repairing the West End! The tourist dollars we bring in are being well spent on infrastructure to support the tourist business!! 😱

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[NRV]

Thanks for your trip reports! Always enjoy your tales! Yeah, the “road work “ on the West End has a lot to be desired…We were in Negril earlier in July. Went to the West End two evenings for dinner at Kool Vybz & Murphy’s. The road was challenging in places…

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Just got out of the pool and chilling on my balcony.
Some guy across the lane is singing on a karaoke machine.
Me say to the housekeeper “ him practicing”
She say “him need more practice”! I agree

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Photo dump:
Pub crawl in Fisherman’s Village
CC’s rum and beer bar
Delroy, old sec guard at Seastar mid 2000’s

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Home safe in sound after flight delayed. This was due to weather in Boston. Flight delayed an hour or so before boarding Mo Bay, then about an hour in the air, held on the tarmac in Boston for about 40 minutes due to the back up in immigrations. Big crowd waiting for Uber, but finally made it home. Left Seastar around 10am Saturday and was home in Boston around 1:30am Sunday.

Oz picked us up at Seastar and we left a likkle early due to anticipated traffic getting out of Negril. Dream Weekend is Back! Vendors were lined up on both sides of Norman Manley Blvd from the round a bout, all along long bay with few gaps, Bloody Bay and beyond. Lots of excitement in the air!

Stopped at Valerie's in Sandy Bay for a cold one and a goodbye hug!

Big line of vehicles juggling to get into Departure Drop off. Oz swung to the outside and dropped us off quick quick. Line for JetBlue kiosk was very small, line for Southwest was HUGE!!!!!

Through security and parked ourselves at Jamaican Bobsled Cafe for lunch.

Did some duty free shopping at Dufry and just noticed they handed me a coupon for 15% off the next purchase that day, wish I had been paying attention!

I spoke to some airport staff and they say a smoking lounge is under construction for the departure side of the airport. Soon come!!!

This past week I noticed that ALL Route Taxis are now outfitted with Air Conditioning!

Per mandate from the Jamaican Government, ALL Route Taxis have 4/60 Air Conditioning installed, effective immediately!

4/60 Air Conditioning = 4 windows open, traveling at 60 KPH!!!!

Almost every morning at Breakfast, we had a LARGE Fruit plate at Seastar, fresh mango, papaya, banana, and pineapple. The fresh fresh fruit was delicious!

Time to do laundry an sort out the bills.

Enjoy,

VVHT aka Happy

[Jaherring]

Nice photos! Sounds like it was a fun night!

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Thanks for sharing! We love LTU pub! We have been to the saturday night shows at Seastar in the past but never stayed there. It is on our list. The pool looks so relaxing.