Fun things to do in Negril

We had Oya come to our patio at Blue Cave Castle overlooking the water. She works out of Catch A Falling Star but will come to wherever you are. She has a new phone number 876-363-7587. One hour for $70 us. Highly recommended.

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Our trip to Negril was the opportunity to, in the way back, descend a river in a raft. It happened in Martha Brae, near Montego Bay, and it was calm and nice. It seems that each trip costs about $100 which is very expensive.

We were expected to add a tip (and we did), and the guide had no problem to start suggesting $20. OK, we enjoyed it, because our final price was only the tip, but wouldn't buy it.

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One of the highlights of Jamaica, is not an astonishing place, but a merging place, because... it's historical.

We saw (and lived it) first from the see, and then from the top, and... OK. Good calm times, with lots of happy(?) people around us.

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A trip along the coast, with good music and cool drinks, was our apperitive to some minutes snorkelling in Pirate's Cove.

I read that it is expensive (we were in all-inclusive basis), but... what is not expensive in Jamaica to foreigners?

We took it facing Margaritaville but don't know how and where to book it.

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This is a really cool place in the hills above Negril on the road to Little Bay. They have a nice bar and a huge pool next to a smallish hole in the ground where you can jump in or watch the guys do it for you into a 35 foot deep pool of water "good for the skin and bones". Cool breezes from being up in the hills make for a good getaway from the heat.

In between Negril and Little Bay is a little visited sculptural park where artists have made huge statues of dinosaurs and such---an out of the way location, try to visit the nearby Blue Hole Mineral springs as well.

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Up the road from the Lighthouse about 1/2 a mile, there's a place called Culture Yard, where My friend Tony says they have Mento (a precursor to Reggae) concerts on some evenings---
if you like Mento, they also have a house Mento band at Pushcart Restaurant on the Cliffs...

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I have known Jah-ba for over 35 years now---he lives next door to where I used to stay with my Jamaican mother Daisy on Lighthouse Road in Westend Negril. He has raised his family in the same spot by renting snorkeling equipment and such to tourists, and also in the past used to make patties, including akee and veggie ones, the best on the island! He is older now (about 70ish) so doesn't make the pies unless he knows you, although if someone asked him he probably would.....You can see him playing Dominos most days or sleeping in his hammock in the yard...His son David now runs a bar/restaurant in front of the compound. Stop by if you are walking the road and say Rusty sent you (My name is Dusty but I have never after 30 years been able to get them to call me that!)
Jah-ba is next door to one of the road grocerys and close to my friend Tony's Tykes Bikes
cycle rental. Not far from Ricks Cafe if you are going there for sunset....
updated Oct/2010---Jahba still with us---found him sitting across the road at a doorway into Tensing Pen Resort----he is 71 this year and still feisty---stop and say hello if walking past his compound. Also saw David on his bike a few times-----

updated june 2012---Jahba still around and turning 74 on June 27 this year! He now has a bar set up at the front of his compound so stop in and have a cold one with my old friend.