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It was a long day but we made it! We took a tour to Negril, a small beach town. The first half of the tour wasn't very exciting for me, we did see most of the north and west coast but the drive was quite long, 4 hours. At Negril we had lunch and spent a little more than 4 hours on a very nice, long beach. It was very hot and the water was great. The beach was also full of the young spring break people.
After we went to Rick's Cafe where we had the opportunity to cliff dive, or just to watch it from the side (we chose the second option). The cliff was very high and we did see a girl injured and carried out on a stretcher. Of course the locals were the best! We watched a beautiful sunset and drove home. The drive home was longer because we hit a man with our bus.

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We woke up bright and early and took a cab to the Dunn's River Falls. We decided not to go with a tour but to go on our own instead so we can be there earlier and I can just take my time to photograph the falls. It was a good idea because just right after I was done taking photos, the place was taken over by lots of tourists.
Visitors can climb up Dunn's River Falls with a guide, they would start right from the ocean and climb 600 feet up, or can start from the top and take the stairs along the falls all the way down to a nice beach. We had a great day, went for a nice swim (we had the whole beach for ourselves because we came early) and got under the waterfalls to take some photographs (set my camera on a tripod and 10sec timer in the ocean for that).

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This morning we took a cab ride to Ocho Rios, the closest town to our hotel. The main goal was to find an Internet cafe so I can plug in my laptop and upload some news and see my emails. I don't know why, but they don't allow to connect laptops, you are only allowed to use their computers. We got lucky though, after playing around with the hub I found a way to plug my laptop in and was able to use it.
The city is not very big (maybe 25,000 people or so), similar to all the small towns that we saw in Dominican Republic. Its loud, everybody is honking, people are trying to sell different things to tourists. Ocho Rios is a port city, today we saw 3 big cruise ships docked there, and the cab driver said that it is like that year-round, plus many resorts, so there are lots of tourists. I was never asked so much in my life if I want to smoke some marijuana as I was today. As far as I know its illegal but you can smell it everywhere you go.
While walking in the city we met a nice local guy (later turned out to be a drug dealer) who showed us around in the local farmers market, showed us different spices, herbs, fruits, and also some marijuana plants that they are growing. I also found some dry salty fish at the market so I will try it tonight :)

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Today we are being beach bums. After we woke up to a nice view (you can see it on the first image) we went for a nice walk along the beach and for a swim in the ocean. Its pretty windy today but still nice and hot. Although I used sunscreen 30 yesterday, I still sun burned, not bad, just a little on my sholders. We ate some food on the beach, it was very very spicy! (Greg, you would love it here). When people say that Jamaican food is spicy, believe them!

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We made it to our hotel in Jamaica, located just outside of Ocho Rios. It was very late in the evening, so we didn't see much on our 2 hour drive to the hotel.
This morning we slept in a little and went to our orientation meeting, where they told us about all the exciting things we can do here. There are 8 restaurants in the resort (we didn't try them all yet). At least a couple of the restaurants are open 24h a day. Food is great, lots of spicy meat, some nice deserts, and of course all the drinks you can find. Later tonight we played some tennis. I'm going to have to play alot if I will continue eating like I do.

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Well, here we are, we made it to Toronto. Its just past 5 am (Calgary time) and we already checked in our bags, took couple of bags with our winter clothes to the long storage facility, and even booked a rental car for the time when we will come back here after Jamaica. The day is just beginning, and its going to be a long one!

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This weekend couple of my friends and I took a nice trip to Banff National Park for a day. The weather wasn't the best, but I think we all had a good time. It was interesting to stop and talk to a ice fisherman and it was kind of scary to walk on the ice with all the cracking that was going on. We had lunch at a great Greek restaurant in Banff (I really recommend it). Also you can see sequence of a joke we played on Greg while taking photo in front of the Natural Bridge sign. (Greg I hope you are ok)

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Just played with reflections. I thought it looked interesting but probably would be hard to see on such small photographs.


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My coworker Ryan. I worked with him for over 4 years now. Friday, Jan 27 was his last day working with us. He is leaving for Australia (who knows for how long). Ryan has a great sense of humor so I took this photograph of him in our bosses office, it was a going away present for the CEO.


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I photograph some of the recreational basketball games where my girlfriend Tracy and her sister Mandy play. I wanted to congratulate Mandy on scoring her first ever basket :) Congrats and I'm sure we'll see more to come!


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