- Saturday 10 October 2009
Mi ladies, sistas, white girls, white chicks.. ey sisters, blondie.. brown suga. Here we are in our own little paradise. At the moment were sitting in the garden of the castle. Its hard to describe with words how beautiful this place really is. The castle is located a bit up the "main street" of the area, on the cliffs overlooking the ocean.
Everyone knows everyone around here and when the electricity is blacked out (which happens atleast once a week) people come together outside the MiniMart, under the light of the Redstripe sign, which always stays on - and smokes a spliff. Sometimes we sleep late, sometimes we wake up early, we always go for a salty morning dip and curse the night before: "Maybe you guys have a drinking problem" - too many rum and pepsi's.
The day before yesterday we went for a drive with Lenny, our number one taxi driver. We went to the Black River for another crocodile safari. A dip with the crocodiles, 10 times more adventurous than in Miami. This time we were really swimming just a few meters away from them. And then on to the YS falls, a more beautiful nature experience would be hard to find... We swam in the different pools of the waterfall and had our picture taken by the lifeguards, who didnt seem to mind the effort.
(Ready for the Black River tour, with our pretty driver.)
(One of my fav pictures.)
(He picked flowers for all the ladies on board. Me, Julia and one little girl. How sweet.)
(As you can see the black rivers water is quite black. Until it leaves the river, and you can see how clear it really is)
(The YS falls.)
After this we headed over to the Appleton Rumfactory and was ofcourse welcomed with a rumpunch. We took the tour and got to see how the rum is made, and was offered to drink as much as we wanted. It was a whole day trip and when we got back we were exhausted and slept for a couple of hours.. and then it was just to reboot and get ready for the Jungle, the big nightclub here in Negril. Ofcourse all the boys go crazy when two blond "sisters" enter. We get to hear a little bit of everything, everyday theres something new. "You want to take me home and play threesome?" As mentioned before - they are pretty, yes. But some of them are a bit too intense, and dont know when its time to throw in the towel and accept a no.
( "Here are a few different kinds of rums. And here are a million cups. Imma go get some stuff done, so go ahead and drink while im gone" )
We have spent alot of time with this great man we met, who is also staying at the Castle. Drew. Hes from California and comes here every now and then. And ive gotta say, im sure wed do the same if only Jamaica was closer to Sweden. It sure is a great place, Jamaica, and the castle. Drew hangs out here, swims in the ocean, snorkel and play his drums. He took us out for dinner at this great place along the road, and weve shared alot of great food and good conversation. Hes kindof like a papa to us here in the castle - Hes the king of the castle, and were the princesses.
(Drew - King of the Castle.)
(Boat + Driver + Spliff = ?)
One day the three of us went on a glass bottom boat out to the reefs to snorkel. A million yellow fishies hiding in the corals. Not the best snorkelling ive done, but ofcourse it was great. Snorkelling always is. The other day we brought him with us to go night snorkelling at Xtabi with Andrew as our guide. It was 5 of us in total, swimming around in the dark water with our tiny flashlights (some of them barly working). It was an amazing experience. Imagine floating on those big waves, with just the light from the flashlight. If you turned it off it was pretty much completely dark, and if you popped your head out of the water, you could see the lightning cross the sky far far away, over the dark water. Amazing. We swam around for a good while, and Andrew showed us all kinds of things. We saw some squid peacefully floating through the water, played around with some starfish and petted one of those fishes that blow them selfs up like a balloon when they get scared. It was like nothing weve ever experienced before. Undescribable.
Even though the days are calm it feels as if theres so much going on its hard to keep up. But atleast now the problem of the tickets have been solved and we will be staying in JA until the 21st, thinking of moving down to Debbie on the beach, to her SeaSand Eco Villas, and are planning to go to the JERK FESTIVAL the 18th and see BEENIE MAN! What can we say, Jamaica no problem.
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