Jamaica Tours, Guides and Vacations

It’s December 31st and the end of 2007 for us. We’re back in Ocala Florida for the holiday season and missing Jamaica much worse than I thought we would. I guess I can say I’m lucky that the family is so excited about our return when I was scared the kids may not want to after being back in the States for awhile but it looks like everyone is ready to go home and home is in Negril.

We’re basically stuck here now because of the discount flight available to me for waiting until January 10th to travel out again. If I could get the same priced tickets I would fly out tomorrow and be home much sooner. Actually I would have flown home on Thrusday last week and made the Buju Banton concert in Negril on Friday. I wonder how it went? Anyone get to see the show?

Anyway things have gone well here in Florida. It was nice to see family and Christmas was great for us all. The kids had a good time and we picked up some things we all wanted for the next trip to Jamaica. As a matter of fact we’re already over the 400 lb free bag allowance we get for 4 tickets and I am certain I’ll need to bring at least one if not two more bags along. I guess we do have a lot of stuff we want to drag all the way to Jamaica but it will really be nice to have a good coffee maker and better kitchen stuff than we can find there and we do have so much in storage not being used it’s nuts to buy it in Negril.

I’ve been buying some new stuff like a super sweet camera I found here used. I bought a Panasonic FZ-30 for $300 with some accessories and I have never been happier about any deal I ever found. The camera is awesome and way beyond what I had hoped t get. It’s been so much fun playing with it that I cannot wait to get it back to Jamaica for our next adventures. This is much closer to a real camera and it really does a lot of things. I’m most impressed with its macro abilities and taking close up pictures of flowers has been much better than on any other camera I have owned.

I also bought a new dive camera to replace the one stolen from me last time around. I really struggled with this one but in the end I had way to much fun with the last one not to buy a new one before we returned. I took so many great pics with the camera that I built a dive photography website just for it and I’ll continue it with my new SL321 EcoShot from SeaLife. It’s exactly the same camera as the SL320 that was stolen but only rated to 75 feet and not 135 feet like the 320. I doubt I’ll be diving to either depth when most of what I do is actually snorkeling. I am on the look out for some used scuba dive gear to take back with me so I can do a little more exploring this time and maybe get some better pics as well.

I really do enjoy taking pictures of the stuff we do and I am hoping that the new cameras will inspire some better photography from us. I hope that everyone has a safe and happy celebration and prosperous New Year.