ang*e (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} watchyourmouth) wrote,@ 2007-10-19 14:28:00 |
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Two weeks in Jamaica (Sept. 17 - Oct. 1, 2007)
Ben has posted 300+ of our pictures (including videos!) to a Picasa photo album here.
This is our vacation at-a-glance.
Day one on Negril's 7 Mile Beach - reaching out to wildlife.
Petting its head-feathers...
This is me laughing hysterically after one touch quickly sent its neck into its body.
Mysterious bird that looks like a pterodactyl.
After walking down the West End of Negril, it started pouring suddenly so we stopped by the Rockhouse for drinks while we waited for the rain to pass.
The sun trying to break through afternoon rain clouds.
We could make a book of postcards out of the scenery at Negril.
Half Moon Bay, Jamaica.
Spiny lobster at Booby Cay. I don't like their legs - they look like spiders.
Ben likes the lobsters. And the bugs. And the lizards.
Super cute polka-dotted rocks like this are scattered all over Booby Cay.
"Love bugs" -- because they're perpetually mating! They run amok at Booby Cay.
3 Dives in Negril had the best steamed conch. Soooo good.
Trees wearing sweaters at the Royal Palm Reserve in the Great Morass.
The Great Morass -- the one by Negril. There is more than one Great Morass in Jamaica.
I look like my mom in this picture taken at sunset at Negril.
I got certified to scuba dive! This is my first time -- learning to equalize.
Ben got certified in Thailand years back, so this is him taking a self-portrait while I slowly descend.
Look at the vast difference in the shapes of our eyes o.O
Stingray in hiding. We watched it lift off and swim away too.
Petting a huge fat sea cucumber. Ben calls them underwater cats.
Cute how coral grows on knots in the buoy line.
Bat condominiums in the caves by Roaring River.
I thought it was super cool how the river rises from beneath (you can see it bubbling).
Blue Hole Gardens.. our self-appointed tour guide helped us thru the barbed wire for a vsit b/c it was after open hours.
Curried goat at Sips n Bites in Negril, Jamaica.
Treasure Beach was apparently hit badly by Hurricane Dean.
Treasure Beach (Calabash Bay) as view from Jack Sprat.
Black sand beaches are Treasure Beach's trademark.
Cute little red-and-black urchins hide in the holes of rocks.
Climbing the idyllic buttonwood tree that is the hallmark of Treasure Beach.
Ben and me sitting in the buttonwood tree at Treasure Beach.
This is my leg bleeding after cutting it on coral.
Ben after he learned to not slip on the seaweed and coral in the reef.
Cute fish that looks like a bee - it's black and yellow striped!
Sitting in a pirogue heading out to Pelican Bar.
The crab wants my food at Pelican Bar! It's funny how crabs are pests in Jamaica.
Pelican Bar at sunset.
YS Falls on the Black River in Jamaica.
Guy helping Ben get momentum for the rope swing.
Oy vey...
Ben trying desperately to swim to the waterfall but the force of the water is too strong.
Late at night, we reach the Blue Mountains. Pretty.
What the Blue Mountains look like in the day.
Ben super fucking excited to get going hiking. I don't get it.
Stuff growing in the tree we saw hiking in the Blue Mountains.
And by hiking I mean walking up the mountain's highway - a one lane road.
Things grow EVERYWHERE in the tropical rainforests!
View of Kingston from our perch in the Blue Mountains. Kingston is the capital of Jamaica.
We did a 1.2 mile hike in the Hollywell National Park. This is a pretty shot Ben took. In fact, 95% of the pretty shots are what Ben took. I didn't bring my camera, we just used his camera to take 1000+ pictures.
The Blue Mountains are gorgeous even at night.
Reading Middlesex at Mount Edge while waiting for our ride to Long Bay.
Mount Edge's gardens. It used to be a coffee plantation or something.
Ben hates this rooster - it kept yodelling at 3AM til 4AM every night.
Driving out of the Blue Mountains on that windy tiny road - even off-roading it in a van where the road got washed away - that was terrifying. Nerves of steel...
Ben swam across the Blue Lagoon, unaware that barracuda live in the waters. I rented a kayak so I could explore the Lagoon too.
A view from the kayak on the Blue Lagoon.
Kayaking out of the Blue Lagoon into the ocean, and to Monkey Island.
Cute rocky island (like, 5 years wide) ride by the opening of the Blue Lagoon.
We were standing on the tiny beach on Monkey Island in the water, and this school of fish were swimming all about our legs. Ben bent down and took a picture with his d-cam (he has a water case for it).
The tiny beach on Monkey Island.
Another super cute, and tiny, rocky island by the Blue Lagoon.
Ben exploring the lagoon next to the notorious Blue Lagoon.
Ocho Rios is home to Dunn's River Falls, which is like Disneyland for Jamaica. It's damn touristy.
Our tour guide took this picture, and 239487298347 others of us. If we weren't looking cozy enough, he'd motion with his hands that we should closer, then he'd take the picture - both horizontally and vertically with our d-cam.
Our last night in Montego Bay, we stayed at the Altamont West which was a pretty nice hotel - because we'd been backpacking, we'd been staying at super-cheap places for most of the 2 weeks in Jamaica.
Doctor's Beach Cove at Montego Bay on our last day in Jamaica.
The funky clouds as seen from the plane as we jetted from Jamaica to Miami.
Seriously funky.
They don't have clouds like this in California!
Cuba. One day.
Ben has posted 300+ of our pictures (including videos!) to a Picasa photo album here.
This is our vacation at-a-glance.
Day one on Negril's 7 Mile Beach - reaching out to wildlife.
Petting its head-feathers...
This is me laughing hysterically after one touch quickly sent its neck into its body.
Mysterious bird that looks like a pterodactyl.
After walking down the West End of Negril, it started pouring suddenly so we stopped by the Rockhouse for drinks while we waited for the rain to pass.
The sun trying to break through afternoon rain clouds.
We could make a book of postcards out of the scenery at Negril.
Half Moon Bay, Jamaica.
Spiny lobster at Booby Cay. I don't like their legs - they look like spiders.
Ben likes the lobsters. And the bugs. And the lizards.
Super cute polka-dotted rocks like this are scattered all over Booby Cay.
"Love bugs" -- because they're perpetually mating! They run amok at Booby Cay.
3 Dives in Negril had the best steamed conch. Soooo good.
Trees wearing sweaters at the Royal Palm Reserve in the Great Morass.
The Great Morass -- the one by Negril. There is more than one Great Morass in Jamaica.
I look like my mom in this picture taken at sunset at Negril.
I got certified to scuba dive! This is my first time -- learning to equalize.
Ben got certified in Thailand years back, so this is him taking a self-portrait while I slowly descend.
Look at the vast difference in the shapes of our eyes o.O
Stingray in hiding. We watched it lift off and swim away too.
Petting a huge fat sea cucumber. Ben calls them underwater cats.
Cute how coral grows on knots in the buoy line.
Bat condominiums in the caves by Roaring River.
I thought it was super cool how the river rises from beneath (you can see it bubbling).
Blue Hole Gardens.. our self-appointed tour guide helped us thru the barbed wire for a vsit b/c it was after open hours.
Curried goat at Sips n Bites in Negril, Jamaica.
Treasure Beach was apparently hit badly by Hurricane Dean.
Treasure Beach (Calabash Bay) as view from Jack Sprat.
Black sand beaches are Treasure Beach's trademark.
Cute little red-and-black urchins hide in the holes of rocks.
Climbing the idyllic buttonwood tree that is the hallmark of Treasure Beach.
Ben and me sitting in the buttonwood tree at Treasure Beach.
This is my leg bleeding after cutting it on coral.
Ben after he learned to not slip on the seaweed and coral in the reef.
Cute fish that looks like a bee - it's black and yellow striped!
Sitting in a pirogue heading out to Pelican Bar.
The crab wants my food at Pelican Bar! It's funny how crabs are pests in Jamaica.
Pelican Bar at sunset.
YS Falls on the Black River in Jamaica.
Guy helping Ben get momentum for the rope swing.
Oy vey...
Ben trying desperately to swim to the waterfall but the force of the water is too strong.
Late at night, we reach the Blue Mountains. Pretty.
What the Blue Mountains look like in the day.
Ben super fucking excited to get going hiking. I don't get it.
Stuff growing in the tree we saw hiking in the Blue Mountains.
And by hiking I mean walking up the mountain's highway - a one lane road.
Things grow EVERYWHERE in the tropical rainforests!
View of Kingston from our perch in the Blue Mountains. Kingston is the capital of Jamaica.
We did a 1.2 mile hike in the Hollywell National Park. This is a pretty shot Ben took. In fact, 95% of the pretty shots are what Ben took. I didn't bring my camera, we just used his camera to take 1000+ pictures.
The Blue Mountains are gorgeous even at night.
Reading Middlesex at Mount Edge while waiting for our ride to Long Bay.
Mount Edge's gardens. It used to be a coffee plantation or something.
Ben hates this rooster - it kept yodelling at 3AM til 4AM every night.
Driving out of the Blue Mountains on that windy tiny road - even off-roading it in a van where the road got washed away - that was terrifying. Nerves of steel...
Ben swam across the Blue Lagoon, unaware that barracuda live in the waters. I rented a kayak so I could explore the Lagoon too.
A view from the kayak on the Blue Lagoon.
Kayaking out of the Blue Lagoon into the ocean, and to Monkey Island.
Cute rocky island (like, 5 years wide) ride by the opening of the Blue Lagoon.
We were standing on the tiny beach on Monkey Island in the water, and this school of fish were swimming all about our legs. Ben bent down and took a picture with his d-cam (he has a water case for it).
The tiny beach on Monkey Island.
Another super cute, and tiny, rocky island by the Blue Lagoon.
Ben exploring the lagoon next to the notorious Blue Lagoon.
Ocho Rios is home to Dunn's River Falls, which is like Disneyland for Jamaica. It's damn touristy.
Our tour guide took this picture, and 239487298347 others of us. If we weren't looking cozy enough, he'd motion with his hands that we should closer, then he'd take the picture - both horizontally and vertically with our d-cam.
Our last night in Montego Bay, we stayed at the Altamont West which was a pretty nice hotel - because we'd been backpacking, we'd been staying at super-cheap places for most of the 2 weeks in Jamaica.
Doctor's Beach Cove at Montego Bay on our last day in Jamaica.
The funky clouds as seen from the plane as we jetted from Jamaica to Miami.
Seriously funky.
They don't have clouds like this in California!
Cuba. One day.
