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We had our first full day at Couples yesterday, and it was not the same as the feeling you get from the West End resorts.
This trip, I noticed the whole bay is developed now. There is really no room, other than the small space left where the office of nature and their craft stall counterparts remain. It seems like the parish of Hanover is all larger resorts, and less on the way of the more personalized hotels/resorts you find in Westmoreland Parish. The change feels visible almost immediately upon crossing from one side to the other.
This report is a bit more discouraging than the report of getting robbed to me. Back when I was visiting Negril, folks were getting robbed, but at least Bloody Bay was wild and unspoiled and not despoiled with sterile resorts.

The last time I was in Bloody Bay I was digging up buried treasure, just like the pirates used to do. I knew where to dig to find it, since I had buried it there. It was so many steps toward the road from a huge half-buried log that I used as a landmark. My "treasure" was contained in a green tin Milo can and its contents were worth at least a year's salary at hard labor.

A couple months earlier I found myself in a sticky situation with not much time and I had stashed the goods in the Milo can, got a ride from Red Ground to Bloody Bay from a hockey playing buddy of mine, who dropped me off and then returned to get me and take me to the airport. Those were the days.

I was wild, but my Hockey Player buddy was wilder. I am still kicking, enjoying being an old fart after all these years and he is long gone. His name was Steve Durbano and I met him when he played in Pittsburgh with the Penguins. The first night he played in Pittsburgh I happened to be at the game and I watched him and Battleship Kelly get into fights. That was his job. Later I ran into him and his wife at a Pittsburgh hot spot. His wife liked me, but I did not care for her but I sure like old Steve. He was a hell of a nice guy and a good friend.

He ran into a lot of trouble after we parted ways. I blame 99% of his problems on his wife, but he selected her and stayed with her, so I guess it comes back to him in the end. You can Google him to find out the strange things that happened to him and how he met his untimely end.