Ashley's Fabulous Trip Report

[Batty_gyal]

Ok so Thursday we had plans for the night to go to Amnesia with Teri and Trevor. But before that we decided to spend the day with a couple good friends of ours. This was one of my favourite days. We went up to the house of our friends Zed-X, X and Champange lol!!

Walking up to the house..it was on the side of the hill near the highway into Ochi.





X is in the chair, Zed-X is on the computer and the one in the bright hat is Champange.





These boys are best friends and two nice nice boys!!




Kristi and Lion Champange



This guy Champange was fantastic...this is the video I took of him doing his thing!!:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVEOSS6J ... re=channel

Some more pics of everyone up at the house:

[Batty_gyal]

I saw some cute kids...and anybody who knows me, knows I love kids but I have a special weakness for Jamaican kids. I find them to be cute...and quite funny as many of them are alot bolder than kids here. I love taking big bags of Candy and giving them to the kids there. They love and appreciate it so much..and lets face it what kids don't love Candy. I also get to know the little ones and have some of the cutest conversations and its such a small thing to make a few kids happy!!











Some other scenery shots and my beloved horses!!

[Batty_gyal]

So after this comes my favourite part. We went down to some local beach that is off the chart as far as places anybody who is not local knows about....so we felt kinda lucky to see it. It was stunning!! Some of my favourite trip pictures came from this little venture. I find that Jamaica has it's tourist spots but some of the most beautiful little treasures are the things you won't see unless you have some local friends who are willing to take you. Jamaica is such a beautiful country with stunning little suprises like this!

Walking down to the beach....sooo pretty!!

[Batty_gyal]

..........Walk to the beach continued.....

Some shots of the boys dancing on the rocks. And of all of us heading towards the beach. I loved these photos so much. There is a quiet powerful beauty to Jamaica..sometimes its in the places people find joy and fun...without the materialistic things we depend on here...or its the untouched beauty of local beaches..or untouched nature...its hard to capture it on film. It always fills me with a sense of wonder.

[Batty_gyal]

So we finally got down to the beach...it was beautiful and had a waterfall/ little river coming from inland and emptying into the ocean. It was called " Laughing falls" and is supposed to be " special water", perhaps because of where the river is stemming from inland, I'm not sure. We had a blast swimming in the ocean watching the boys dance on the beach, and sitting in the waterfall...which was also mildly interesting. I went down a small part of it not by choice LOL and bumped up my knees a bit. But it was a blast.











Me in the Ocean !!!





The awesome Laughing Falls!!














The boys Zed-X and X dancing on a rooftop and random thins on the way back up from the beach:














If any of you want to see the boys dancing..this is a video Kristi made of a bunch of their videos..mostly from this beach day...put togeather. It's pretty cool!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XHJuV35 ... annel_page

[Jelakins]

Ash - all is forgiven... this is worth the wait!!!
You have some really amazing pics!
Looking forward to the rest!

Thanks

[Batty_gyal]

Thanks Jel darling!!:)

I'm still resizing pics and uploading videos...I have about two thousand pics to go through so its taking some time LOL!! Plus Youtube is REALLY slow in processing videos!!

Glad you like my pics though!!:D

[jellybean]

..........Walk to the beach continued.....

Some shots of the boys dancing on the rocks. And of all of us heading towards the beach. I loved these photos so much. There is a quiet powerful beauty to Jamaica..sometimes its in the places people find joy and fun...without the materialistic things we depend on here...or its the untouched beauty of local beaches..or untouched nature...its hard to capture it on film. It always fills me with a sense of wonder.

It looks like the local beach I went to - we had to negoiate some big rocks to get there and there is a beautiful waterfall on one side of the beach. Lovely photos Ash.

[ECO]

Great trip report Ashley!

[Batty_gyal]

Oooh cool Jellybean...thats awesome if you got to go there. It so pretty....and its one of those places I'm really glad has stayed more a local secret and off the tourist map. It's so much better when it's quieter.

Did you sit in the waterfall when you went girl?? The water is suprisingly cool even for fresh water!!

[damswell]

love the pics, told john about it he knows exactly where it is, and what jamaican kid doesnt love sweetie??? Dem nyam sweetie from the time dem bawn!!!!

[ECO]

This thread could use a bump as well!

[Wahoo]

Those waterfalls look like a fabulous place to boink or get boinked.

[Batty_gyal]

I just got home from work.....Im gonna sleep and then add stuff later k!!:)

[LadySizzla]

Great photo's Ashley.. why is it called laughing Falls?
Do you know?

[Lillywight]

I just got home from work.....Im gonna sleep and then add stuff later k!!:)

Must be a looooong sleep!

[ECO]

Somebody needs to go wake Ashley up!

Oh and Ashley when you read this respond to my PM if you got the pictures so I can remove them from my desk top!

[Batty_gyal]

Hey Eco..got the pics..THANK YOU!! They are awsome. Having trouble getting trip report done as my laptop has serious issues and shuts off randomly all the time losing anything i was typing or posting. This is my fifth time restarting my stupid fornicating without passion computer to write this message!!

[ECO]

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