On Monday, I met fellow boardie Justchuck at Negril Relax Resort -- a nicer-than-I-thought beach resort that's a converted Merrils. He's a great photographer, and he gave me some prints of some gerryg pics from prior reports. Chuck had three friends that all met together in Negril, and they were just finishing breakfast.

I had already eaten at least twice, of course (lol), so I had an orange juice, and we sat together and had a nice chat.

Together we walked down the beach because Chuck wanted a Jamaica towel, and I tagged along and decided I wanted a towel, too. I told Chuck to let me do all the negotiated so I could sweeten the deal at the end by adding my towel, but Chuck has been around, and he handled it. We bought from Tony on the beach, and amazingly, I remembered him but he did not remember me and did NOT fib that he did -- that's not something you see every day -- and eventually Famous Vincent pulled up for a snorkeling trip.

We all jumped in the boat.

A few of us went snorkeling/spearfishing, and the others remained on the boat.

We landed on Booby Cay island just off the coast fro Point Village. There, a guy was sorting out a big haul of conch, as big birds flew overhead and a large eagle ray swam up and made its hello. We hung out for a while, having the island to ourselves. It was fun.

BTW, Chuck and his party are the ONLY ones at Negril Relax Resort. His room was towards the back of the property, and i chided him about not negotiating for a room closer to the beach, seeing has he was the only one there and a $10 handshake was not even necesssary to upgrade, but Chuck said that was the room he wanted. I called Bentley, and we made plans for all of us to eat dinner there tomorrow.