A few more photos from Frenchman's Cove...and we are off again to visit the 'Blue Lagoon'
A few more photos from Frenchman's Cove...and we are off again to visit the 'Blue Lagoon'
On the way into the Cove...I had chatted with this gentleman about a braclet with the red seeds that I had seen earlier from the Rasta on Long Bay beach. I didn't like the clasp he had on it, and I told him that I would buy it on the way out, if he could change the clasp. Of course he was eager to accomodate for the sale, and I picked it up when we left.
I saw this other man in a car smiling and pulling away...and I thought he kind of looked like a younger version of Jamie Fox. What a smile...
We drive up the road, and you probably don't realize how close in proximaty everything is. Just a stone's throw from our hotel are all these beautiful places to discover. As we enter the Blue Lagoon area, we hear that there was a storm that mashed up a lot of this area. We drive down the narrow road...the back of all the expensive villas on the left and enter the lagoon area itself.
At the top of the road was a raftsman who wanted our business. $6,000 J for a likkle ride up the waterfront to see the villas...but we were not biting. As I had mentioned the waves were up and a boat had captsized up the way, and the boat patrol police were there to help out.
Last edited by Sprat; 12-11-2011 at 02:17 PM.
Awesome!! I could literally walk right into your pictures it is as if I am there. I am going to jamaica soon for four days and yes I know it is short but better than nothing. I am going back next year for fourteen days and plan on going to Portland.
Thanks for this
Enjoy your trip Summer....
The Blue Lagoon was a bit different that I had envisioned. There were lots of Jamaicans waiting for tourists for rafting, a few stalls set up selling their wares, but basically it is a beautiful spot. We decided we weren't going to do the rafting, and just as we had a arrived, the group from Frenchman's Cove arrived for a boat ride.
Last edited by Sprat; 12-11-2011 at 03:09 PM.
We were ready to leave...took a few more photos of the overturned boat on the reef and it was getting late in the day, but I really wanted to do Winifred Beach....
If you look at this photo, you can see the boat up the way that is stuck....
A better view of the boat....
Now to find Winifreds Beach was no easy task. Not sure why, but few signs anywhere for anything around this area. Same problem when we tried to get to GeeJam...lol We decided to ask someone and he gave us a route that was a better road. OMG is all I can say....
We traveled up through a sort of subdivision...then hit the dirt road. It seemed like forever...pot holes the size of quake craters every few feet. We traveled up the mountain...along with the goats....and then down the other side to the beach. Wheeeeph....glad it's a rental car!
But low and behold...we had arrived...and another feast for the eyes. A photographers dream...
We stopped at the first bar....chatted up the bartender and got ourselves a couple of Red Stripe Light....
Hubby chatted up the bartender while I walked the beach and talked to the vendors and took photos. A nice relaxed, laid back beach....not hair pulling or begging for money. A few polite requests...but nothing over the top.
Very few people on the beach....a couple with their young children and a elderly couple reading their books under a tree.
Met a nice Rasta who was doing some carving work on his gourds. What an art that is, and to watch him work was pretty cool.
Boy if I had lots of extra money to throw around, I would have bought some of his bowls. But...we were spending more dollars this reach, so it wasn't to be.
He sat beside me on the bench at the bar....after just showing his work, but never again mentioning anything else. We just talked about the intrigacy of the carving. Now that is when I WANT to buy...but we were just there for a visit and had a whole reach ahead of us...
Last edited by Sprat; 12-11-2011 at 03:46 PM.
I decided to walk up to the end of the beach where the old boat was...and I could some of the other eager vendors waiting for my arrival at their table. I thought to myself....on a beach like this it must be terribly hard to make a living. A few requests to buy some jewelry but I was pretty firm with my 'No thank you' answer. It just has to be that way....or a person would be broke traveling and buying.
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