A great second trip

[kylake]

PV was a good fit for us! I will post more but just don't have the time now to do so.
Found and got to say hey to Rasta Dave again this year and here is a picture of Dave and Beth. Dave said it has been really slow so if anyone is up that way stop in and buy a beer and say hello at Donaldson's Inn.

Picture from the Point Village property

[gerryg123]

so Rasta Dave works at Donaldsons now?

[kylake]

gerryg123, He said either Donaldson's or the place next door and I didn't catch the name of that place. There was another Rasta guy walking from Rutland Point end that took me to Dave when I asked. He said Dave was his neighbor and would not even take a free drink for taking me to Dave......very nice guy but sorry I didn't catch his name.

[Rob]

Kylake,

It was great meeting you both during the Pub Crawl! Keep me informed on the "train" situation.... (grin)

[kylake]

Nice meeting you also Rob! I was/am going to mention meeting you in part 3 the first full day which will have the pub crawl. I know you meet a lot of people and amazing you remembered Beth and I

[kylake]

Early leave out of Nashville/BNA to Dallas/DFW went smoothly but connection in DFW was at a terminal on the other side of the road running through the middle of the airport but because of the location we walked it out and took the walk over as opposed to taking the Sky Train. It would have been about the same using either and we felt like a hike.
Flight to MBJ was about 3 hours and landed 20 minutes ahead of schedule and although I had mentioned Club MoBay, we didn't use that and just took the luck of the draw.
Airport was fairly crowded but we were out the door about one hour after De-boarding the plane and Wayne one of Rocky's drivers was waiting for us. Since we were staying at Point Village we had a planned stop at Mega-Mart to pick up some essentials and use the ATM for j's. Wayne forgot to pack a couple of beers for the ride to Negril but stopped at a convenience store near Mega-Mart. Along the ride in, Wayne has a little bar in route to Negril and he had also picked up some stuff at Mega-Mart for the bar and we dropped it off on the way. Also stopped for some patties at Juici's since we were starved.
Got to the condo in PV that Rolf May rents 105 about 4pm. Checking in at PV was simple as they expected us. We quickly unpacked some summer clothes to dress for the warmth of Jamaica and took a walk about the property with plans to go to Canoe for the Thursday night webcast and supper. Well that never happened since watching the sunset with the PV group that gathers near the saltwater pool, conversation, travel weariness, and sand gravity evolved. We spend the night at the condo watching the stars and drinking a few red stripes.
Next morning we enjoyed coffee sitting on our balcony...........to be continued
View from our balcony

[rinakim]

Will have to make a trek down that way this coming trip.
You said "to be continued" ....... i'm waiting

[kylake]

And continued it is
To start Friday our first full day we got up drank some coffee ate a little breakfast we went to the beach. Point Village has 2 beaches, a family beach plus an adult beach where nudity is allowed and it is next to Hedo so for some folks you might want to stay away from that beach if offended by nudity.
PV also has a 3rd nice little area to snorkel with an easy ingress and egress even if the water is a little rough.

I meant to take pictures of each area but time just slipped away and the last day I never got around to it. Also picture taking was hampered by and afternoon rain each day that would last sometimes till almost dark.

I had contacted Lenbert (prior to the trip) for the One Love Bus Crawl and he picked us up at 2:30 pm.
Before the Bus Crawl we thought it would be best to get some food in storage to fight of the possibility of drunkenness therefore we caught a cab to Alfred’s and had fish and chips. Most excellent but the wait for the food was normal Jamaican time and took a while……….so do not go when you are starving which we weren’t.

Last year there were a total of 3 couples on the bus crawl but this year there were probably about 30 people total. It rained part of the time on the crawl but the biggest problem for Lenbert was, that it was Good Friday and some of the places he wanted to stop were closed for holiday.
Just like last year it was a/one highlight of our vacation in Negril, Lenbert is such a nice fellow and I believe someone referred to him as an
Ambassador of Negril and he certainly is!! Without his crawl people that stay only in all inclusive properties would never even see anything of the “real” Negril.

We stopped at appx. 6 places starting with Swordfish I believe, then Pee Wee’s, No Limit, Choices, Xtabi, Pushcart, Love Nest and back to No Limit where I met Rob the admin of Negril.com board. We had a brief and nice conversation and he told me why he edited and removed a picture and some comments from my post about Isla Mujeres. He said if I had read the user agreement and I laughed and said nobody reads that stuff Rob smiled also.
Just like last time when the crawl was over Lenbert delivered all of us back safe and sound.

End of first day pics
No Limit

Da Bus

Rob and Lenbert

Xtabi

Rockhouse from Pushcart

Beth and I at Pushcart on the Rockhouse side

[poolguywindsor]

OH? So this is just the start of this?

[kylake]

Yes, Poolguy this is just the first full day. Installment 3 but first full day