Tropical Lagoon Resorts Near Port Antonio

Tropical fruits, Mangoes at your door

Tropical Lagoon Resorts is nestled on lush hillside that descends to the beautiful world famous Blue Lagoon, This modern gem offers a lovely mix of modern, instyle and in the midst of truly verdant rain forest surrounding with the essence of seclusion and serenity.

The resort consists of 14 elegant self-containing villas fitted with the convenience of  hot and cold water, air conditioner, microwave oven, amenities for hot beverage like coffee, a mini bar, cable television and wi-fi throughout the property. Spacious terraces open to some of the most picturesque views of the caribbean sea and the Blue Lagoon. As a guest of Tropical Lagoon Resort you will enjoy our Private beach on the Blue Lagoon with complimentary Kayak access and rafting on the Blue Lagoon. 

Just outside Tropical Lagoon Resort a 20 minute walk is San San resort and villas are San San Beach and Frenchman's Cove beaches two of the premier beaches 

Visit Winnifred Beach near the Blue Lagoon

Ripples at winnifreds Beach

winnifred beach is Located between the Blue Lagoon and Boston Bay just a mile on from the closed beach where Tom Cruise once juggled bottles in the movie Cocktail, winnifred Beach is one of the most appealing beaches in all of Jamaica Beaches. Found in the Fairy Hill community in the Parish of Portland on the island’s lesser traveled east coast winnifred beach is home to a delightful reefs just offshore that’s not only perfect for snorkeling, but for its clear, calm, bright-blue water justly popular with locals.The official drink of winnifreds beach is the "blue lagoon" representing much of the blue skies that covers Jamaica everyday.

Winnifred Beach is a Global CitizenThe white-sand winnifreds beach stretches along a Rain Forest in the Fairy Hill Bay.

Mysterious Blue Lagoon Port Antonio

 There have been folktales, stories of beautiful mermaids swimming the shores of the Blue Lagoon.

A mystery The Blue Lagoon

Since the Blue Lagoon in near Port Antonio became famous when Errol Flynn first tried to dive to its bottom  this Portland wonder remain a mystery. Its solid teal color is not really colored with die, the continued bubbles at one end is not the breathing of Manatees or giant Crocodiles or the warm waters to the northern  end of the pool is not from mermaids cooking under the water.

 There have been folktales, stories of beautiful mermaids swimming the shores of the Blue Lagoon or mermaids climbing into yachts and on Rafts kissing its occupants and disappearing  into its waters the mysteries of the Blue Lagoon near san san beach continues, visit Jamaica's blue Lagoon mesmerize yourself. 

Port Antonio Beaches

Boston Beach near Port Antonio

In the North Eastern end of Jamaica are some of the island's most beautiful beaches, Port Antonio Beaches offer visitors and array of different beaches catering each visitors comfort.

The rare black sand beach of Somerset Falls beach makes the curious and inquisitive mind wonder along the beach for its 1 mile stretch along the Hope Bay coast, then walk across the main road to Somerset Falls and explore its Gorges caves and dive in one of its magnificent Pools.

Brayan's Bay Shan Shy Beach at Boundbrook just outside Port Antonio is one of the best kept secrets as a beach restaurant and entertainment center. Inside Port Antonio at the Errol Flynn Marina is Bikini Beach a waterfront restaurant Bar and Grill on the main harbor of Port Antonio. Bikini beach with its adult all night entertainment great music exotoc dancers, beach basket ball and volley ball can keep even an uninterested guest entertained.

Tropical Rain Forest at Winnifred Beach

Rain Forest cover the Beach

Not many beaches in the world is shaded by lush vegetation as Winnifred's beach near the Blue Lagoon and only 7 miles from Port Antonio. The lush Tropical vegetation  allow visitors to the beach deem Winnifred's beach as the worlds foremost beach with a tropical rain Forest. The trees on the beach are grown to 30-40 feet high with lush brilliant green leaves and no sign of withering. Winnifreds beach does not welcome beach umbrella's because the branches of the trees reaches over the beaches incoming tide at its eastern and western ends. Along the beach several large trees are so close to the water providing shade and sometimes when the tide rise or there is rough seas the trees are covered halfway up their trunk.  

Ocho Rios-Jamaica Beach and Waterfalls

Ocho Rios, Dunns River Falls

Ocho Rios (Spanish for "Eight Rivers") is a town in the parish of Saint Ann on the north coast of Jamaica. Although he landed in many spots along the Jamaican coast, many believe that Christopher Columbus first set foot on land in Ocho Rios. Just outside the city, travelers and residents can visit Columbus Park, where Columbus supposedly first came on land, and see maritime artifacts and Spanish colonial buildings.

Once a fishing village Ocho Rios now well known as the second of Jamaica's tourism communities. It is a port of call for cruise ships hosting several of Carnival Cruise lines and other cruises weekly as well as cargo ships loading sugar, limestone, and in the past, bauxite.

The name "Ocho Rios" is a misnomer because there are not eight rivers in the area. It is most likely a British corruption of the original Spanish name "Las Chorreras" ("the waterfalls"), a name given to the village because of the nearby Dunn's River Falls.

The north coast highway from the international airport at Montego Bay to Ocho Rios has been improved since 2000 and the journey is now an hour and forty five minutes drive. On 26 August 2011, Jamaicas government announced a $21 million revitalization plan for the resort area.

The town has restaurants, night clubs in Margaritaville and Dolphin Cove, where tourists swim and interact with dolphins. Scuba diving and other water sports are offered in the town's vicinity.

Mystic Mountain, Ocho Rios, Jamaica

The Rainforest Adventures park at Mystic Mountain in Ocho Rios is the heart and soul of the Jamaicas ecotourism and rain forest activities! You’ll have ample opportunities to put on your explorer’s hat and take your camera on a photo safari, the park take you all the way from the seashore to 700 feet above sea level at the top of the mountain, stretching over 100 acres of the Saint Ann and Jamaicas coastline. This is one rain forest tour in Jamaica that will give your memory chip a workout it won’t soon forget! The development of Mystic Mountain in Ocho Rios adds its many attractions. 

Motorcycle Saddle Bag

PVC Motorcycle Saddle bag 

This saddle bag gives you a nice sleek look. The inside is lined with strong proven water resistant material to give extra durability. These bags can be zipped off. Saddle bag sets. You get quick release under the buckles making it easier and faster to open the bag. You cant' beat this classic look! 

Motorcycle Saddle bag

On a motorcycle, modern panniers are normally hard-shell cases mounted behind the seat and on either-side of the rear wheel, attached to a framework (which bolts to the motorcycle frame) known as a carrier. Modern panniers are made to be quickly-detachable.

Historically, the origins were in military use for dispatch riders, where soft, often canvas-type woven material bags were fitted to the motorcycle by rudimentary frames enabling the rider to carry documents securely. After hostilities ended, any left-over items including the motorcycles could be obtained from army-surplus depots, particularly after World War II during the 1950's when there was an increase in motorcycle use as a cheap form of transport

Saddle bags also are available as modern motorcycle accessories (similar to western saddlebags described above) to place across the rear portion of the motorcycle seat, making them quickly detachable. They can then be carried over the arm or shoulder of the rider.

Made of leather or vinyl (leather cloth or imitation leather) with stiffening, they are known as Throw-overs and come in different shapes and sizes to be used as travel luggage or a handy temporary container for items such as shopping.

Winnifreds Beach

Winnifreds Beach

Located between the Blue Lagoon and Boston Bay just a mile on from the closed beach where Tom Cruise once juggled his bottles in Cocktail, Winnifred Beach is one of the most appealing beaches in all of Jamaica. Found in the Fairy Hill community in Portland on the island’s lesser traveled east coast this beach is home to a delightful reef just offshore that’s not only perfect for snorkeling  but for its clear, calm, bright-blue water justly popular with locals.

Restaurant on  Beach

Even on the imperfect day winnifred beach offer the tranquility beach goers yearn for, winnifred beach is 1/2 mile from the main thoroughfare, the path to the Beach is unpaved road with natural green shrubs along the way. These shrubs include fully grown tree when in bloom offer delightful scents with Bees and Humming Bird in abundance transporting their pollen from one plant or tree to the next. This most tranquil walk sets the tone for natures experience for a lifetime as your half mile trek to the beautiful winnifred beach is now crowded a swash of "the Jamaica experience".  

Garden 2012, Hornworm

Garden 2012, Horn-worm

07/17/2012 found these Caterpillars (Horn-worm) feeding on my Tomato Plant

Horn-worms:

These caterpillars are so big (three inches long or more) that it would seem to be easy to control them just by picking them off. And so it is, sometimes. The problem is that their pale green color provides excellent camouflage, and the nymph and larval stages are far smaller and less obvious. If there are only a few, picking them off works well. (One site suggests spraying the plant with water, causing the caterpillars to, and I quote, "thrash around," giving themselves away.) If there are more than a few, other measures may be called for. One of these is Bt, Bacillus thuringiensis, an organic treatment that can control numerous other problems as well.

 — in Central Islip.

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Through the tunnel of Love

Tunnel of Love

Rafting on the Rio Grande

Tunnel of Love, "Passing  through is the memory of a lifetime".

Rafting in Jamaica like so much else, is largely chill. You are taken on a trip of a lifetime serenely downstream on the same kind of 30-foot-long, bamboo-lashed rafts that Farmers once used for transporting their sugarcane and bananas to market. This ride enchanting gives you a chance to loose your mind in the vegetation that surrounds and wonders that surrounds you.

The Beautiful Tropical Bamboo Palms bunched as they Grow to 40 ft- 60 ft and clustered on the side of the mountain.The Sky that always seem to be blue with the yellow sun piercing at your body baking it to a golden tan. With birdlike whisper the water rippling over the uneven smothered riverbed rocks. The experience does not lend itself to verbal conversation but an  imagination a selfish ride through another of natures true experience.

Tropical Bamboo 

Beautiful rocks carved by the ferocious river into monuments that changes over time. There's the," lovers rock", once a huge solid Rock over time Hew through by the ferocity of the Rio Grande River now called the Tunnel of Love the story told by your Raft Captain who remain silent throughout trip only to answer questions or point out wonders you may may have missed, "Passing  through this Tunnel is the memory of a lifetime".  The Rio Grande River Experience is like none other of the four River rafting trips you can take in Jamaica.

This Rio Grande River ride should not end without a break at the midpoint to enjoy a swim in this Natural tropical water pouring from the Blue mountains of Jamaica twirling its way through the John Crow Mountains into the Rio Grande Valley and finally into this awesome lifetime experience. What feels like cold water as you enter will embrace and clench your body into a romantic fervor, relaxing and refreshing. After a 30 minute swim and frolic, your body would have absorbed natural minerals that makes the skin like velvet.

The final leg of this trip 2 miles to Rafters Rest in St. Margaret's Bay, Portland, a slow ride into the Sunset, (best time to start Rafting 2:00 pm with stop and 4:00 pm without stop) as your trip ends so does the day as the amazing sun sink into the western skies and into the Caribbean sea.

The Rio Grande Rafting experience is like none other of the four rafting opportunities in Jamaica. Rio Grande rafting begins 8 miles out of Port Antonio and can be booked through River Raft Ltd.Tel: 876 952 0889, the Jamaica Tourist board and Rafters rest in St. Margaret's Bay.

"Passing  through is the memory of a lifetime".

Summer of Mosquitoes

Mosquito Repellent Coils

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This has been a spring of enormous rain there are Floods everywhere so late spring and early summer will bring an outbreak of flies and Mosquitoes.We can help to reduce the levels of this Mosquito outbreak by doing simple things around our homes.

These are a few way to help:-
1) Look around your yard the areas you don't often occupy to find containers that may have collected water during the rainy weather.
2) Flower Pots are friendly environment for mosquitoes, check and make sure all your Flower Pots and bases are draining properly. With the amount of rain we had recently the dirt in these pots gets hard and water may be retained in them.
3) Check the gutters around your home clean them of all the leaves and gunk these can help to retain water and become breeding ground for mosquitoes.
4) Make sure you cut the shrubs around around your home and clear them of clutter mosquitoes and flies find these as friendly areas to survive as the remain cool and accommodating to mosquito insects and flies.

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My Wife the Teacher

The 'Middle Wife' by an Anonymous 2nd grade teacher

I've been teaching now for about fifteen years. I have two kids myself,but
the best birth story I know is the
one I saw in my own second grade classroom a few years back.

When I was a kid, I loved show-and-tell. So I always have a few sessions
with my students. It helps them get
over shyness and usually,

show-and-tell is pretty tame. Kids bring in pet turtles, model airplanes,
pictures of fish they catch, stuff
like that. And I never, ever place any boundaries or limitations on them.
If they want to lug it in to school
and talk about it, they're welcome.

Well, one day this little girl, Erica, a very bright, very outgoing kid,
takes her turn and waddles up to the
front of the class with a pillow stuffed under her sweater.

She holds up a snapshot of an infant. 'This is Luke, my baby brother, and
I'm going to tell you about his
birthday.'

'First, Mom and Dad made him as a symbol of their love, and then Dad put
a seed in my Mom's stomach, and
Luke grew in there. He ate for nine months through an umbrella cord.'

She's standing there with her hands on the pillow, and I'm trying not to
laugh and wishing I had my camcorder
with me. The kids are watching her in amazement.

'Then, about two Saturdays ago, my Mom starts saying and going, 'Oh, Oh,
Oh, Oh!' Erica puts a hand behind
her back and groans. 'She walked around the house for, like an hour, 'Oh,
oh, oh!' (Now this kid is doing a
hysterical duck walk and groaning.)

' My Dad called the middle wife. She delivers babies, but she doesn't have
a sign on the car like the
Domino's man. They got my Mom to lie down in bed like this.' (Then Erica
lies down with her back against the
wall.)

'And then, pop! My Mom had this bag of water she kept in there in case
he got thirsty, and it just blew up
and spilled all over the bed, like psshhheew!' (This kid has her legs
spread with her little hands mimicking
water flowing away. It was too much!)
'Then the middle wife starts saying 'push, push,' and 'breathe, breathe.

They started counting, but never even got past ten. Then, all of a sudden,
out comes my brother. He was
covered in yucky stuff that they all said it was from Mom's play-center,
(placenta) so there must be a lot
of toys inside there. When he got out, the middle wife spanked him for
crawling up in there.'

Then Erica stood up, took a big theatrical bow and returned to her seat.

I'm sure I applauded the loudest. Ever since then, when it's show-and-tell
day, I bring my camcorder, just in
case another ' Middle Wife' comes along.

Now you have two choices....laugh and close this page or pass this along
to someone else to spread the
laughs. I know what I did!!!

Live every day as if it is your LAST chance to make someone happy!!!!

Smile in the Morning.

She Laid as if Lifeless 

Coffee cup in hand sitting near the nook, standing at he kitchen counter she turned and looked at me it was 5:30 in the morning. She muttered under her breath,"why do I do this" she continued to pack the lunch case.Can "you pass me a bottle of that water from the freezer", she asked. I opened the freezer and handed her a bottle of water completely frozen, she looked at me "is there anything else you want to take along today" no honey,I replied,she turned and smiled, a long beaming smile, I took the last gulp from the second cup of walked over to the counter where she stood, she was looking a look I have not seen for a long time.

She handed me my lunch case with her left hand and placed her right and on top of mine, the touch was soft and deep. I kissed her,as I walked to the door her footsteps were soft and loud behind me, I was smiling deep inside me. I opened the door I knew she was right there. I stepped outside holding the door ajar. Again I felt her soft fingers taking the place of mine as I gently let the door leave my hand into hers.

As I walked to my car I felt her piercing eyes across my shoulders, my fingers trembled as I opened the door. Through the corners of my eye, I saw her standing there her body pressed against the edge her hands one above the other between her chest, her face touching the doors edge.

My nerves were shattered, my right leg trembled as as it touched the floor, hurriedly my body fell into the seat my left leg was lifeless as I dragged it inside the car. my car did not start as my wet fingers slipped from the keys. My head drooped my forehead slightly touching the steering wheel. wiping my hand on my leg I tried again the car roared and started, I rolled my window down waving as I backed out the driveway.

I did not look to see if she was there I knew she was, this morning was different I felt her there. I muttered to myself, "I know why she she do this",that moment I had a long breath taking morning smile.