Monty & Melo's "5 Months Mon Goat Can Eat" Trip Report - Oct 2012

[Monty&Melo]

So it’s Sunday morning now, day 3 of our 9 day trip. I’m wide awake early after another wonderful night’s sleep at Le Mirage. The good news is that the current stayed on all night and therefore the AC was nice and cold. This is the day we were moving to the beach, back to our home at Rondel. I decided to give the West End walk one more try and my brother decided to join me this time. We took the same path I had taken the day before, all the way out to the turn where you head to Westender, away from the cliffs. Once we walked past Hylton Avenue, my brother kept asking me “so when are we turning back?” I assumed he thought we had walked far enough and of course every step we took away from Le Mirage meant another step we were going to have to take to get back. Every few minutes, he kept asking me…..I was sort of thinking to myself, “what a wimp, he can’t handle a long, brisk walk in the morning!!”

As we were almost back to Le Mirage, we were walking past Wise Choice when a voice called out to us, this voice belonged to a Jamaican dressed in chef’s pants and a chef’s coat. It was none other than BENTLEY, the man, the myth, the legend. He walks up toward the road and greets us, “Ya Mon, I’m the chef, I’m Bentley.” “I know who you are, you are the Man!!!” I barked back at him. “How do you know me mon?” he asked, and I replied “You are world famous mon, you are all over the internet.” You all know what came next, the famous Bentley laugh!!! We talked for a few minutes and I told him we had plans to come see him later in the week. He reminded me to call him first and then come see him. He said, “you need my number?” “No mon I said, 393-6768, I got it in my brain already.” I have this weird habit of remembering phone numbers and other useless information, I guess in this case it came in handy. As we walked back to the hotel my brother was freaking. So you never met that guy before?? Nope, but that was Bentley and we are going to see him later in the week for dinner, its going to be awesome, 5 things on the plate mon…and magic sauce!!!. He just shook his head at me as if he felt like his older brother was the weirdest person on the planet!

Back at the hotel for breakfast with the girls, we talked about what time we would transfer to Rondel from the Cliffs. We decided we would have our driver show up about noon and we would make a quick stop downtown at the HiLo for a couple supplies and get to Rondel about 1230pm. If the room was not ready we would already be in our beach clothes, so no problem we would dump our luggage at the front desk and check in later.

Here are a couple of shots from Le Mirage before we move to the beach. It is a great place to stay, I am not sure I could handle a full week there, maybe if I was there in high season and there were lots of other people around it would be different, but it just seemed so quiet and with no bar or restaurant around there weren’t folks from the outside stopping by. I guess it was just different, I’m certainly not complaining about it, it is wonderful place and the scenery is awesome. We all decided that we stayed there just the perfect amount of time and that it is a good way to get into the Negril groove, a couple of days of peaceful and quiet on the Cliffs before we hit the hustle and bustle of the beach.

Melo and JMA in the infinity pool


Love the shady Gazebo…like Booger said earlier, I think you can get Naked and do your thing there if you are into that…



This jet ski is not as close as it appears, I was testing the zooming and focusing abilities of my new camera



Before we knew it, it was noon and time to head to the beach and say bye to Le Mirage