Trip Report January 2012 Honeymoon in Heaven!

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So, I guess I better get back at this! I have 2.5 more days to go and if I don't get started I am afraid it will grind to a permanent halt so here it goes!

Friday morning we wake up and start the morning right again, RUM cream and Coffee!!! And some toast and peanut butter, we elect for a light breakfast cause we figure we will grab a quick bite at the Bar at Boardwalk Village before we leave for the concert. We had walked past it a couple times and ridden bikes past a couple times and thought it would be worthwhile checking out. If for no other reason than it was close and if the food is decent a good place to grab some grub on the run we would file it away in memory for the future! We rode our bikes over to BV and locked up, wandered through all the little shops for an hour or so, then grabbed a Red Strip and ordered up some appetizers. The food arrived fairly quickly and was decent enough to eat, although it was on the pricier side of things for what you got. The beer was ICE cold and the deck of the bar has a really nice view of long bay and would be a great spot to take in a sunset!! I don't have any pictures of it on this computer so I will add them later for all you picture loving folk .

After our short break we headed back to PV to hit the beach for a few hours, and a swim, our ride was to pick us up at 1:30 or so and we had some time to burn!! My wife and I quickly changed and headed for the beach, Beers, Loungers, I phone and X-mini speaker, snorkel set's, beach towels, books all accounted for NOW off to the beach! Now I am not one to sit around so I get fidgety fairly quickly and decide to head out for a swim and a snorkel for a half hour or 45 minutes. It was excellent!! I get back to the beach after my swim and am toweling off and about to grab a seat when my wife says, Hey, did you hear that? Well I musta been deaf or was too involved in the music cause i didn't hear a thing!!! I said what you talking about? She replies, did you hear someone holler for help??? No, I exclaim you must be hearing things!!! 5-10 Seconds later, there it is again!!!! HEEEELLLLPPPP!!! Oh Sh!T I say and take off running in the direction of the noise. As I arrive at the rock pool I realize there is Two fella's dragging another fella towards shore and they are struggling, I take a quick second to survey the situation to make sure I am not jumping onto a coral head and jump in and start swimming out to them. They are still about 50-70 yards of shore and one of them is having trouble keeping his own head above water much less the fella in distress! I pull him away and send him to shore on his own and proceed to help get the 3rd man to shore, he is a dead weight and appears to be unconscious. After about 50 feet I can touch bottom so it makes it easier to pull him in, Thank goodness!!! Now the only worry is to make sure that I don't step on a sea urchin!!! I already have a massive pain in my right heel and am not really sure why, the adrenaline rush is coming to an end now that we have the guy close enough to shore that we are not struggling nearly as much! A crowd has gathered around and someone goes off to call 119, as we get him back to shore we are trying to figure out a way to get a 6 foot plus, 200 Lb plus man outta the water. He is starting to come around and is fighting us a little cause he is scared, he doesn't know what has happened to him and is having major difficulties speaking and he is bleeding badly from the mouth! We get him calmed down, and decide we are going to use a chaise lounge to haul him out. This works good and we get him out of the sea with minimal struggles, I took off to our condo to grab a rag and some water, as well as try and find some aspirin in case it was a stroke (turns out there is a previous stroke he had recovered from a few years earlier). We find an aspirin, and give him a little water to wash it down and clean him up a bit. In no time the ambulance arrives and takes him away, at the conclusion of the excitement I realize I have a 6-10 Sea Urchin quills broke off in the heel of my right foot and its killing me! Off to the condo I go to find whatever I can to get them out!! I find a really bad pair of tweezers, a pair of nail clippers and a small pair of scissors. As well a first aid kit that has been picked over but has a few supplies, after about 1.5 hours painfully digging at my heel I get all but 2 out and find some polysporin in our travel kit to put on it and some gauze to put on the heel. I pillage what is left of the first aid kit to make a crude bandage.

About this time we realize we should get our @sses in gear and get ready, we are to be picked up in about 30 minutes!!! Latoya from Joe Cool Taxi picks us up right on time and we are OFF, 2 quick stops to make on the way. We grab a couple of patties and a couple drinks at the gas station, and hit a cambio in Mobay to change some money and we are on the road to the Cricket stadium in Trelawny. After about a 2 hour road trip we arrive and the place is ALREADY a MADHOUSE!!!! I cannot remember all the performers that night but the ones I can remember were as follows. Julie Black, Tami and Tenisha Chynn, Richie Stephens and Gentleman, Nicole Henry, and of course Celine Dion. All the performers were excellent and it was a really cool experience. I will give a little more of a rundown later when time permits but for now here are a couple pictures from around the venue and the performers. I will post some more when I get on my laptop that has them all on it!! Hope you enjoy!!! I will add, I am NOT a Celine Dion fan, but Man does that girl have a voice, and all the Jamaicans LOVED her at times it was so loud with hollers, screams and people shouting out the words that you couldn't hear her!!!!


TV report about Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival (THE TRAFFIC WAS CRAZY!!!!!)


Start of concert.


However the whole time at the concert we kept wondering if our new friend we had met at the sunset a few night earlier was okay, and what it was that caused him to become distressed earlier today in the sea!