Sports Little Bay

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It was my first time there and here I was watching this go on and thinking something isn't right but we decided what the heck we want to see the spring. </div> <bR> <div> It was the most magical place I had ever seen. Splashing around in that turquoise bottomed pool and floating face up and looking at the beautiful ceiling with colors of purple and green with little shells hanging all over like ornaments and the sun shining through the big hole in the rock was some of the most fun I ever had. </div> <div> It made such a big impression on me that I went back to Jamaica a few months later with a bicycle because all I could think about was that mineral spring. I had a lot of fun that trip peddling to Orange Bay, and Green Island at sunrise in preparation for my big jaunt to Little Bay. (I didn’t know about the short cut back then). </div> <bR> <div> Early the morning after I deemed myself fit to make the ride all the way to Little Bay I left Jah B’s at dawn, as soon as I was sure the cars would see me, and headed towards the West End of Negril. I remember it like it was yesterday and I can still feel the cool morning air as I rode through the West Cliff Estates area and soon I began walking up the steep hills wearing a backpack with my bottle of water, pushing my bicycle and being ever so relieved at any flat spot or those little downhill areas. </div> <bR> <div> It was around 7am as I was passing through Orange Hill and people were coming out of their houses to start their day and what’s the first thing they see but me walking up the road pushing my bicycle. Of course I exchanged good morning greetings with everyone I saw, and some of the residents even walked with me until they got to their destinations. All of this interaction made this long bicycle trip seems so short and before I knew it I was on the descending portion of the ride to Little Bay and I knew for sure I’d make it to the Mineral Spring and I was excited as a child on Christmas. </div> <div> I stopped at the water tank in Little Bay to drink from my bottle and top it off and that’s when I came upon Uncle Sam who was out looking firewood so he brought me to the Mineral Spring but this time there wasn’t anyone standing in the yard next door with their hand out for money. Sam told me that the land where sits the mineral spring was willed to the people of Little Bay and could not be sold and nobody has the right to charge money to go there. </div> <bR> <div> The water in the spring flows in one side and out the other side into the sea so it cleanses itself constantly, and its level depends on the sea level. The spring is used as a great place to bathe which I ended up doing every day on my many trips to Little Bay. A lot of residents bathe there too, and there’s an unspoken privacy thing, for if you are in there bathing and one of the residents comes there, and sees towels on the rock outside they wait back further in the bushes till you come out. </div> <bR> <div> A good rule I think is to go somewhere like Uncle Sams and ask if there’s anyone around that can take you to the spring, for sure someone local. You won’t run into someone telling you it costs money to get down the path and there would be someone trusted to help oversee your belongings as well and you won’t come across someone bathing either. For the services of a tour guide who I am sure would also take you to the bat caves make sure you give them a nice tip, buy them lunch too what the heck, the spring is a magical place.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="23c84230.jpg" border=0 width="388" height="291" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="23dad280.png" border=0 width="173" height="40" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="23e6a4e0.jpg" border=0 width="106" height="78" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="23f72400.png" border=0 width="370" height="64" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> --<FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Elephant" >---</FONT>---<FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FF00FF" FACE="Elephant" >---</FONT><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FFFF00" FACE="Elephant" >---</FONT>---<FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Elephant" >---</FONT>--</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#660099" FACE="Brush Script MT" > </FONT> <A HREF="id65.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Stories of Old Negril"><U>Stories of Old Negril</U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>