That's for sure!Originally Posted by Lady Jane
That's for sure!
Wow Gerry! I really miss our scooter adventures in Negril. What memories!
So nice to see the familiar faces and places. Thank you! I hope we can meet up again!
So sorry to hear about your Dad, he must have been a great guy.
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For a week, Roger and I have been trying to do spear fishing all by ourselves early in the morning with no one else around, but there has always been something in the way: a fishing trip comes up last minute; the waves are too choppy; I was planning on partying hard the night before, etc.
On Christmas day, it all came together. It was Roger and I at 7 a.m. without a soul in sight. The water was so clear you could spot a starfish taking a pee ....
In Negril, among the biggest and most challenging fish to catch are the garfish. They look kind of like small baracuda but with a beak with nasty sharp teeth, and they're big and swim at the top. Roger and I first started spearfishing together a few reaches together, and Roger would rarely shoot the garfish, instead focusing beneath the rocks mostly.
I started hitting the gars because they would allow me to get close (he is a much faster swimmer than me), but they're hard to handle because they're strong and squirm away even when you spear 'em good. Plus they BITE you, so when you hit them low in the body, they're very much alive and mad at you as you try to retrieve it, and it's tough to get 'em in the little net especially without a glove.
In the offseason, I watched videos to learn more about spearfishing (very little on the Net about this sport btw), and big fish you're supposed to finish off with a knife while you're under water, but we never do this.
Anyway, whenever I hit a gar, which is rare (I usually get about three to four fish the whole time while losing two or three, and Roger gets about seven or eight and rarely loses any), I am always frantic for Roger to come quick and help. He does like 75 percent of the work, usually. But I am getting better, and getting more independent. I was SO proud when I got a gar, all by myself, and did everything with Roger like 100 feet away. I just swam up with the limp gar and handed it to him, and he looked at me like a proud papa. It was a big achievement!
Everything we spear gets eaten. A few times we have taken the fish to Booby cay to eat (you can see my gar in one of the previous pics), or Roger cooks 'em or Bentley cooks 'em.
Spearfishing an incredibly fun activity.
Later in the day, I went with Juli to Xtabi. We explored the caves, took some photos, visited the bar and ate some food, and of course floated upon the ocean, taking turns with my green raft. She's a really nice lady, a woman who loves Negril and has been back many times. She likes to split her time between the Cliffs and beach, and I think she leaves tomorrow for Fun Holiday. I guess Juli comes from a kind of small, conservative town, and she really loves vacationing in Negril and celebrating all that's good in life.
It takes a special kind of woman, a strong one, to do the single-in-Negril thing, and Juli pulls it off perfectly. Everyone treats her with the utmost respect.
Also, Patty S is expected to arrive today, later in the afternoon or the evening, plus Seastar Inn is doing a special Christmas dinner buffet.
I only have two more evenings in Negril. It's Tuesday and I leave Thursday. I hate counting down the days, but I just can't help myself.
It's weird the little patterns I find myself in when I go to Negril. Some reaches, for example, I visit Xtabi every day. Others, I never stop. Some reaches, I stop at the same jerk chicken corner and check in with the same cook like 20 times, just to say hi. Then six months later, I will come back, see his face again, and simply wave hello the first time and never look in his direction again.
When I drive by Bar B Barn, I know there a friends I've met again and again through the years, but on some trips I just keep going and never check in.
Some trips I go to Valuemaster like ten times, other trips I do Weisechoice. Some trips I dock myself at Rockhouse, this time I never stopped the motor bike there at all.
This trip, obviously, I have heavily focused on Seastar Inn, along with Westender, Xtabi, Seasplash, Out of Town Pastry and Bentleys. I guess I don't want to stop as often as I used to. I'm very focused on where I want to be and what I want to do.
Thank you gerry123 for the report.Its ealry but when is your next reach?
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Next reach? Didn't you read the title????
So that's it??? No more trips to Negril???
SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!!!!!!!!
He's probably retiring and moving there.
Wouldn't surprise me in the least....
Yes I read the title.Thats what i was kinds thinking.Next chapter.....gerryg123 Negril Bound fer good mon!!!-One way ticket please
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Keep 'em guessing Big Man, see you soon. Like tomorrow, right?
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