We walk up the river to a big pool. “This is the deepest part of the river,” says Dave,” A good swim spot.” We swim for a while and I dive with the mask. The limestone mineral water of the river has an unusual hue. Sweetie Pie gets out and chats with Dave and Eneil while I am diving. As we move on to the next spot Sweetie leans in and quietly says, “Dave and Eneil say you are a true Jamaican.” This stuns me for a second. I look at Sweetie Pie, “Really?” She smiles and nods, “Yup!” So. OK. In a week filled with the most surprising and unexpected compliments I can easily say toss the rest. Hands down winner right here. Among the best I’ve EVER received. Respect.
We come up to a ledge waterfall and you can see that under a spot there is an alcove you can go back into. Sweetie Pie has been having trouble with one of her contact lenses since the very first Jacuzzi seat and hasn’t tried everything she would like to because of this but she is going in under these falls. She likes it but almost immediately has trouble with her lense. Eneil really wants to get a nice photo here and takes several shots. There are some very funny squishy face shots of Sweetie Pie, I thought about posting them then sanity paid a brief visit. Eneil stuck in there until he got a good one.
We walk up the river again, we see a large waterfall in the distance. “This is the Washing Machine!” Dave announces. We see a large multi-course waterfall dropping into a nearly rock wall surrounded basin creating a turbulent, churning, bubbling roil of water. We make out a figure under the main fall as we approach and watch as they emerge from the behind the water veil. It is beautiful AND super cool. Sweetie Pie is concerned about her contact lense but is not passing on this opportunity. As we are under the fall we can hear yelling from beyond. We’re not exactly sure what they’re saying but we guess they’re asking for the ubiquitous thumbs up. We respond correctly.
