Hettie & Chad December 2011 Trip Report

[Schuttzie]

Love your report and pictures! You both are so cute together!

[Sophie2012]

Great pictures, love the report!

[brasi]

Sweet! Driving in Jamaica...you guys have guts!

[Sunny]

Did you disappear on us?? How was the rest of the vacay?

[Hettie]

Sorry for the delay everyone, had some items that required all my attention on the present time, but I have some free time this evening, so will continue my report...

Even though Saturday was a late night (for us), still up at seven for coffee and yoga, then made some more eggs and callaloo for breakfast. We decided to head down to Half Moon Beach for the day. It was a nice drive, sunny and relaxed. There were a few small groups of people there when we arrived, mostly European tourists that appeared to be staying on the property. The Wild Thing showed up shortly after we arrived, which didn't bother us. It was a small group and they mostly stayed around the food and drink area that was set up for them.


I had gotten a jellyfish sting when swimming at Citronella one of the previous days, can't remember when exactly, but it was still red and itchy...shoulda peed on it I guess. Didn't think it was bad enough to warrant that humiliation, but it stayed around a long time.

Speaking of stingy, pokey things, there are a LOT of sea urchins at Half Moon Beach. One of the Wild Thing staff members was trying to tell one of European tourists to not walk anywhere but the very middle of the beach to go out in the water, but I don't think the gentleman understood. He came back out of the water pretty quickly and sat down in the sand to pick sea urchin spines out of his foot, without much success. Chad decided there should be a sign with just pictures to help everyone out in the sea urchin matter, this is what he came up with:



It was a very lazy day, I like to just lie semi-comatose on the beach like this:



Chad likes to wander around and look at things, so he ends up in more interesting poses like this:



Some regulars showed up and started the dogs' favorite game, fetching rocks. They look so joyful!



They have some new pups out there, a least two. They were super cute!



We had grilled lobster for lunch and I had a nice glass of white wine to go with mine. The lobster was a nice size and prepared well. It was a great meal. After lunch, more beach lounging and I had one of their special drinks in the green coconut made with coconut water and rum, it was awesome!




Eventually we started feeling the need to get out of the sun, so we decided to head back to Citronella for showers, a nap for Chad, and some relaxation until the evening's gorgeous sunset.



We were hungry and didn't want to stray far, so tried Murphy's again for chicken, but no chicken tonight. We had a conversation with a really nice man there, he wrote down his name, but I can't tell if it's Lenile or Leniel. He felt bad about not having any chicken for us and said that they just hadn't been selling enough lately to cook it up every day. They just end up wasting it. I hope their business picks up, would love to try out their food. He did say he would have food ready with advance notice, so someone could stop by early in the day and order dinner for later that evening. Maybe keep that in mind if you want to try to eat there. We headed back down the road toward town and stopped at the first jerk barrel we saw, which was Jam-Can. Nice folks there, we ordered some chicken to go and took it back to Citronella to eat. It was well-prepared, everything had a good flavor. Their jerk sauce was too sweet for us, tasted kind of like american bbq sauce, so it would be good for people who don't like spicy foods. It was fun to eat by the light of an oil lamp on our verandah-- Tulip stopped by, think she thought it looked fun too, the food part anyway.



Oh, and I remembered that the other dog there is named Stella, in case you were wondering.

After dinner, we had a shortened version of our nightly verandah ritual and went to bed really early, wiped out from the sun and fun.

[begels]

Thanks for sharing, Hettie. Great report!

[Kahuna3]

I love the way you guys roll.
when I read your report, I get that wonderful, laid-back 'Negril' feeling.
Too cool

[Big_frank]

Great report. Citronella looks beautiful.

[ekfa51]

thanks for the great trip report....we also went to jam cam!!!!!

[limeex2]

I believe in europe in calleda "beauda".