Made it!
Only took 36 hours, but I’m here.
Met Mark and Cheryl (the 1st two of my peeps) at the departure gate in Toronto. I used to work with Mark in Vancouver when I was still in the aviation business. He and Cheryl are ‘Zoo People’. When I first met them and found out that they went to Hedo exclusively, I talked him into staying on the beach for a bit. Their first try, several years ago, they stayed three days at CoCo. They liked it. They’ve gradually upped their ‘non-Zoo’ stays and are freelancing for 11 days this year. They are up at Moonlight and I’m going to visit them tomorrow. BTW – Bea won’t be here until Saturday, so I’m batching it for a few days.
After a three beer drive with Clives from MoBay, we arrived in Negril at 4:00. I did a quick unpacking and hit the beach. I went up to Sunnyside and hugged Maureen, she said I looked ‘fresh’ – I guess that means I don’t look beachy. Next door, Myrna has built a new porch in front of her store, Nice, I stood there and drank my 4th beer as I watched the sunset, it was nice, One down, 33 to go. I walked up the beach to Merrills, got propositioned once along the way. Hey, Mon – I still got it! Ha!
Jumped a taxi into town and took a wad of Jam $$ from the Scotia bank machine. Walked up to Canoe, got a beer- there was a BIG crowd there and a steel pan band playing. Said Hi to Rob and Lisa. Hung for a bit, then walked back to the Corner bar and popped in for beer number 6. It was early so it was quiet.
Came back to White Sands and checked the beach from the sun deck. There was a huge bonfire at Sun Beach, it was a beautiful night.
I got up at 4:17 this morning, so I was too bushed to go up there and check it out.
Tomorrow I’m going to give the parrot toy that I brought down to Dude, Francis’s new baby Macaw.
Pictures and details tomorrow – or the next day.
