It's 7 a.m. on Wednesday morning at Seastar Inn. I'm sitting alone in the open-air lobby, just me and my laptop and the hotel's resident dog, Boy, a beautiful Rottweiler mix that belongs to Garrett but was first adopted by hotel owner Chris, who rescued Boy after finding him as a puppy "tied to a tree with a really short rope," Chris told me.

It's a beautiful dog, and sometimes we would even hang together in room 6 when both of us were in the mood for mid-day air conditioning.

Chris is an exceptionally gracious man with a big heart. He also takes care of a young man named Shaky, whom he and the hotel staff "adopted" years ago when the youngster was abandoned and had no where to go. There is also a one-armed maintenance worker on the property, and I doubt the poor soul would have been able to find similar work at one of the all-inclusives on seven-mile beach. At Seastar Inn, they all fit right in.

I waited until 830 a.m. or so until Out of Town pastry had their patties ready, then fired up the motor bike. I took off up the hill, past Rick's cafe to the Out of Town. I bought a big batch, mostly veggie, and brought them to Banton's, where there are always a group of hungry Rasta's.

My Negril cell rang. It was Famous Vincent, wondering when I would be ready for spearfishing (I went every day). It was a little choppy, so we made plans to meet at 2:30 p.m. In the interim, I bought three chapsticks (lips getting too much sun, and I lose things easily), and then I went to Seasplash (I have 2 rafts there), where I had my usual fruity drinks plus a nice order of french fries with lots of ketchup (love the Jamaican ketchup). Bumped into Rob and Lisa at Seasplash. It was technically his day off, I think, because there was no webcast meet, but I joked with him that was working anyway.

Later, fellow boardie Smokin Kevan called. I couldn't wait to meet him and his wife. He was staying at Rooms (nice place BTW), and together we sat near the ocean, drinking and doin' whatever. He's a great guy. He had only been in Negril for one night and was already so relaxed. We shared some war stories. It was great.