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Re: Mary's Boon
[Re: jerber160]
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05/29/2017 09:31 AM
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Simpson Bay Beach is usually calm and nice but it will depend on the weather. You can walk to BBB but I would only do it during the day. Probably a 20 or so minute walk. If you don't like any waves at all, go to Le Galion Beach.
J.D.
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Re: Mary's Boon
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05/29/2017 10:34 AM
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jerber160 said: I'm thinking of trying a new hotel this trip. Stray questions keep popping into my head. This one is, HOW IS THE WATER AT MARY'S BOON? I mean I don't like waves. I like to be able to lie in the surf with a waterproof radio at my head. Some times the wavlet will reach my ears, most times not. (I guess I'm thinking low-tide, right?) I'll ask here too, could any of you walk to say Buccaneer's from MB? WOULD you walk? thx I thoroughly enjoyed our stays at Mary's Boon and our 'Boonies for a Day' days there, too, but personally speaking, I think you'll be hard-pressed to find the waves (or lack there-of?) that you're describing for your stay at Mary's Boon. The beaches at Anse Marcel or those along Great Bay, or Baby Beach as already suggested sound to me like they would be more like what you're looking for. All the beaches will have their occasional 'quiet wave days' and we've enjoyed them at Mullet and Friars on many occasions too, but my limited experiences as a visitor is those days are really not the norm on most of the beaches we've experienced and definitely not on Simpson Bay Besch for the most part. We spent our last island week at BSV on Simpson Bay and there were only two or three days that the waves were calm enough for what you're looking for. You could get in and out to swim but you often had to time the waves to go so. And as an after thought, knowing that not everyone on the beach appreciates someone else's music, I'm sure you enjoy your radio with ear buds, right? Or with a very personal low volume level? On our most recent trip in April we had several occasions of people arriving and choosing to 'share' their music with any and all in the immediate area. It was NOT appreciated by many and on one occasion in particular, after a young foursome of beachgoers settled in on top of a bunch of us in one of the busier parts of the beach, finally a big guy walked over to the late comers and asked them to please turn down or turn off the radios. We couldn't hear exactly what was said over the pulsating music they were playing, but thankfully, they picked up their things and left shortly thereafter for a more sparsely populated piece of the beach. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />
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pat
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Re: Mary's Boon
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05/29/2017 05:32 PM
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pat said: [quote]jerber160 said:
And as an after thought, knowing that not everyone on the beach appreciates someone else's music, I'm sure you enjoy your radio with ear buds, right? Or with a very personal low volume level?
<img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> i have a little water proof radio I like to sit next to my head.. actually it's a speaker thing that holds a phone...in the old days it was a waterproof radio/tape deck where I could record local radio stations... I miss that. butI don't think this ec0-speaker thinggee is very loud
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Re: Mary's Boon
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05/29/2017 05:52 PM
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jerber160 said:pat said: [quote]jerber160 said:
And as an after thought, knowing that not everyone on the beach appreciates someone else's music, I'm sure you enjoy your radio with ear buds, right? Or with a very personal low volume level?
<img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> i have a little water proof radio I like to sit next to my head.. actually it's a speaker thing that holds a phone...in the old days it was a waterproof radio/tape deck where I could record local radio stations... I miss that. butI don't think this ec0-speaker thinggee is very loud I wish everyone showed that same consideration on the beach. I enjoy music, too, but at the beach I usually pick a location away from anyone playing any kind of audible music since I particularly enjoy the magical sounds of the waves and the birds at the beach and I particularly enjoy the laughter of the kids enjoying the water. Loud throbbing music is, to me anyway, particularly invasive and annoying. The surprising thing to me is that so often people will choose a particularly quiet area of the beach to settle in and then crank the music up with little or no regard for the others within earshot. But thank goodness, the good people here on TTOL would never do that, would we?! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" />
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pat
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Re: Mary's Boon
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05/29/2017 10:03 PM
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I think you'll find MB a tad rough at times. I stay on Simpson Bay twice a year and most of the time the west end of the Bay (MB, Karakter & west) has surf, 3 plus ft waves.
Joe & Lori Key West, FL
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Re: Mary's Boon
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05/31/2017 07:38 AM
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The way that the waves break in front of MB's isn't what you are looking for. As a surfer myself, you are not going to find a long tube to carry through. Sometimes Orient beach has some waves to surf and Mullet. Nothing like Atlantic and parts of Cali!! As far as calm beach's we like Kimsha and lunch at BBB!
Sand Gravity, got to love it!
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Re: Mary's Boon
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05/31/2017 08:04 AM
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I'm no SXM beach expert by any means, but Le Galion seemed to be super calm to me.
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