Royal Decameron, Runaway Beach, Jamaica
Today was all about chilling out. Hopping between time zones (ahead 3 hours, back an hour) had me up a bit early. I decided it was a great time to get in an early morning snorkel before the winds kicked up, then hit some hammock time while I waited for Ned to rise and shine. It makes it so easy to be steps from the ocean.
Pretty awesome place to have breakfast.
We did eventually rally from beach time and took a walk about town. The small town we are in really consists more of roadside stands along a busy highway. We ran into this guy - who caught all this spear fishing! It was fun to poke around the small stands and hear the locals talk with either their Jamaican accents or speaking Patois. (Patois is a mix of Spanish, Portuguese, English and African language. I never learned what African language or dialect, was just told African). On more than one occasion someone would run out of their restaurant or bar and come get us, encouraging us to visit their place. About every 10 minutes or so we were also asked if we wanted to “buy some ganja mon. For you, white lightening rolled for $10.” Do they not understand I’m from Nevada County and not one of the Brits? We go this.
We had signed up to take a sailboat out this afternoon on the bay with one of the local guides. It got cancelled due do the winds. Hopefully we’ll get a chance to do it later this week. In the meantime we settled on just hanging out and enjoying more beach time. For a couple of hours today the water at the hotel was off and then when that came back on the electricity went down. What a perfect time to enjoy some rum drinks...
The water here is completely potable, right from the tap. It comes from the springs in the Blue Mountains and is filtered. So nice not to worry about the water and so nice when it works!
Tonight’s local fare was Jamaican pepper pot soup, pigtail stew, goat curry and callaloo. It was all sooo good! After dinner we listened to some Raggae music with dancing. Fun times on our little spot on Runaway Bay.
