FRANK'S DILEMMA - JAMAICA TOURIST ISSUE 14
It’s Sunday again and I have to decide if it should be a golf day or a beach day?
This dilemma started about a year after I arrived in Jamaica. I was finally able to break away from my deeply ingrained Canadian work routine and decided to start to explore the island a little. And where does one start on a tropical island? At the seaside, of course. So I started to visit the beaches and began to enjoy the deep blue sea that surrounds this wonderful isle. At first, I went to the beaches in Montego Bay, Doctors Cave Beach, Twisted Kilt Beach, Dead End Beach or Cornwall Beach, then to Bounty Bay Beach, Discovery Bay Beach, Runaway Bay Beach, Silver Sands Beach, then in Negril on seven miles of beach, Long Bay Beach Park, Cosmos Beach, Half Moon Bay Beach in the Green Island area and finally the south coast, Treasure Beach, Long Beach, Boston Bay Beach, Blue Lagoon or the beach at Black River, to name a few. Then when I get to the beach, I ask myself, should I swim, jet ski, parasail, kite surf or just walk the beach?
Then, I discovered that I could also swim in the rivers, where although the water is a little cooler, it is very refreshing and never quite as cool as some of the rivers in Canada, (did I say Canadian rivers where cool, I meant ice cold). So, I could go to the Great River in Lethe, Rio Bueno, the Martha Brae River or the river that falls over Dunn’s River Falls, again on the south coast it could be Black River, Deans Valley River or in Port Antonio, to Frenchman’s Cove River, and numerous others.
I know what you are thinking, it sucks to be me, and after all at least I have ALL these options, where as my family members can only Polar Bear Club swim during this time of the year! Well if you think that is tough, here or there north or south coast, don’t start felling sorry for me yet, and let me tell you the real dilemma.
I also like to golf and there are seven golf courses within a one hour and fifteen minute drive of my house, one course better than the other. Four of these courses are within ten minutes, with 54 holes being laid out on three championship courses, right in Rose Hall. So do I take on the White Witch, Cinnamon Hill or Half Moon and should I cart or do I walk. Then there is Tryall home to the Johnny Walker Championship and just a short 45 minutes down the road, I can play the Negril Hills course. Now if I want to do something different, I could head to Ocho Rios and play the Super Clubs course in Upton. Then there is the choice of tees to play from white, blue or champions?
So now I think you can see, this is not an easy choice and as another Sunday approaches, what should I do? Play golf or go to the beach?
This dilemma started about a year after I arrived in Jamaica. I was finally able to break away from my deeply ingrained Canadian work routine and decided to start to explore the island a little. And where does one start on a tropical island? At the seaside, of course. So I started to visit the beaches and began to enjoy the deep blue sea that surrounds this wonderful isle. At first, I went to the beaches in Montego Bay, Doctors Cave Beach, Twisted Kilt Beach, Dead End Beach or Cornwall Beach, then to Bounty Bay Beach, Discovery Bay Beach, Runaway Bay Beach, Silver Sands Beach, then in Negril on seven miles of beach, Long Bay Beach Park, Cosmos Beach, Half Moon Bay Beach in the Green Island area and finally the south coast, Treasure Beach, Long Beach, Boston Bay Beach, Blue Lagoon or the beach at Black River, to name a few. Then when I get to the beach, I ask myself, should I swim, jet ski, parasail, kite surf or just walk the beach?
Then, I discovered that I could also swim in the rivers, where although the water is a little cooler, it is very refreshing and never quite as cool as some of the rivers in Canada, (did I say Canadian rivers where cool, I meant ice cold). So, I could go to the Great River in Lethe, Rio Bueno, the Martha Brae River or the river that falls over Dunn’s River Falls, again on the south coast it could be Black River, Deans Valley River or in Port Antonio, to Frenchman’s Cove River, and numerous others.
I know what you are thinking, it sucks to be me, and after all at least I have ALL these options, where as my family members can only Polar Bear Club swim during this time of the year! Well if you think that is tough, here or there north or south coast, don’t start felling sorry for me yet, and let me tell you the real dilemma.
I also like to golf and there are seven golf courses within a one hour and fifteen minute drive of my house, one course better than the other. Four of these courses are within ten minutes, with 54 holes being laid out on three championship courses, right in Rose Hall. So do I take on the White Witch, Cinnamon Hill or Half Moon and should I cart or do I walk. Then there is Tryall home to the Johnny Walker Championship and just a short 45 minutes down the road, I can play the Negril Hills course. Now if I want to do something different, I could head to Ocho Rios and play the Super Clubs course in Upton. Then there is the choice of tees to play from white, blue or champions?
So now I think you can see, this is not an easy choice and as another Sunday approaches, what should I do? Play golf or go to the beach?
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