Not a bad first day on the island

Our son Jason and his best friend Jason got here in the middle of the night Tuesday night. Yesterday was a pretty good first day. We took them snorkeling (first time for both of them) at Shacks in the morning to (very successfully) get over a little "ocean-phobia." Now they are both hooked. I mean, what's not to love? Their first time out, in addition to the "usual suspects" (blue tang, ocean surgeons, sergeant major fish) they got to dance with reef squid and watch two different flat worms dance.

We took them for a second snorkel to one of our favorite sites, Wishing Well. Viz was okay but wow! So many fish. Ballyhoo. Blue striped grunts. A porcupine fish hanging out under a ledge. Baby brown chromis-es. And to top off the day, they got to swim with a hawksbill turtle.

This morning I'm going to take them to New Hole at Shacks and then we're hoping they're going SCUBA diving with Darryl later today.

It was a great first day and the second is shaping up to be just as good! Oh, and by the way, it was great just to see them!

On "The Wall"

Despite all the rain, July wasn't all bad.

In mid-July I got to dive The Wall off the southern coast of the island again. This time we went with Island Scuba out of Guanica. We were all really impressed with their operation. The people - boat captain, dive master, everybody connected with it - were just great. And I liked their boat better. It's a little heavier than the others we've been on, made for and more stable in heavier seas. Since I am prone to seasickness, I like that.

And of course diving The Wall is just awesome. This time we limited our dive to about 95 feet so we could get a little more "bottom time." Our second dive was on a shallower reef. That too is just beautiful! We had four "shark encounters" with nurse sharks. Like any animal, nurse sharks can be dangerous if provoked. We just enjoyed hanging out with them and watching them. This one got a little tired of us and swam away.

I don't know when I'll get back to dive "The Wall" again but you can be sure I will. I just love it!

Drying out

The end of July was WET! We broke 50-year-old records for rainfall, more even than during hurricanes. We have a sump-pump that we used to pump our yard and the brand new corral we just built for KTJ and Chocolate. The pump ran pretty much 24 hours a day for more than a week. We didn't get flooded from the river; the ground was just so saturated it couldn't take any more water. Since that corner of our yard and our neighbor's yard (where the corral is) are low spots, water just pooled there.

The last week has been dry and windy and beautiful. The ground has finally started to really dry out. They are cutting hay in our neighbor's field. And we're using the new corral and KTJ's new "stall." She loves it! she goes right in at dinner time.

There's a new tropical storm on the horizon we're watching. It looks like it going well north of us. Here's hoping it takes its rain north with it.

Photos never taken

Rain rain rain. We broke a 50-year-old record for rainfall this month. If all the rain we've had this year were snow, we would have nearly 27 feet of snow. We've been pumping water out of our yard and out of the brand new corral almost constantly since last Friday. But yesterday and today we have sunshine. Maybe, just maybe, things will start to dry out.

But I really don't want to talk about rain. I want to talk about pictures, especially beautiful brilliant photos I've never taken, that only exist in my head.

Yesterday I "took" one of those photos.

Darryl and I met at Crashboat for what was supposed to be training deep dive (100'-125') for one of Darryl's students . The student didn't show so Darryl and I went anyway. Because of all the rain we've had, we expected marginal visibility so neither of us took a camera. But visibility was much better than we expected.

At one point on the way back up, the sandy bottom has kind of a sharp slope up and in is covered with green seagrass. We'd been swimming with a hawksbill turtle for a few minutes . Then he (or she) took off ahead of us, swam up the grass-covered slope and then on up above it. We both stopped for a moment to watch the turtle soar above the bottom silhouetted against the bright blue water/sky behind him. It was a magic moment. And of course, no camera. So it goes into my file of amazing photos never taken.

KTJ comes home

And somebody is pretty happy about it!

Two months ago we adopted a three-year-old filly. She was rescued from the racetrack here on the island by our friends at Hacienda Siesta Alegre (Save The Horses). Elaine first rode her about six months ago and just absolutely fell in love with this horse. For a variety of reasons KTJ has been staying at Ramey Riding Club (aka, "the ranch") up on top of the cliff behind us. We spent most of the last week - with much help from our nephew Ben - building a "stall" for her and a corral sturdy enough to contain both horses when our neighbors, the property owners, come to use the house.

Yesterday we brought KTJ down from the ranch to her new home. She and Chocolate met for the first time. "Dark chocolate" and "milk chocolate" appear to be a great combination: it was love at first sight. Of course, there's plenty of horseplay that goes with that as well as figuring out who's herd leader when it's just the two of them. So far Chocolate, although a pony by comparison, seems to be the dominant one. We'll see how long that lasts. KTJ seems to have quickly and easily adapted to her new home and new companion.

Next on the list will be her first visit to the beach - happening later this morning. Updates to follow... :-) :-)

You can see more photos of KTJ's homecoming on Flickr.

Hope you had a fabulous Fourth

We kept alive our now annual tradition of KAPping (Kite Aerial Photography) one of our local beaches on the 4th. This year is was Jobos, a beach about a mile and an half from Ola Lola's.

Jobos is a popular beach on any summer weekend but gets insane on holidays. Traffic past the beach and parking in the Jobos area get so bad, the police close the road. While the holiday spirit on the beach is fun - music, bar-be-ques, partying, swimming - the trash that gets left behind is tragic.

Except for taking pictures, we tend to stay away from the crowded beaches like Jobos. We much prefer our little beach where a "crowd" is a hundred people on two miles of beach. But it is fun to KAP at Jobos. It is colorful. As we walked along the edge of the beach taking pictures, Elaine remarked, "It's like being inside a gumball machine." That's a great description.

You can see more pictures from this set on our Flickr page.

Oh, happy 4th of July, a day late.

Happy Birthday, Kennedy

Happy birthday to our Boo.

A day for adventures

Yesterday started early and ran late as we crammed several adventures into one day.

First up, we went to Rincon to do the horse trail ride down there. We've done the trail ride down the road from us several times (and Elaine rides some of the same route almost every day) and we wanted to see what the Rincon ride was like. The Rincon ride, Pintos-R-Us, has great well-mannered and well-cared for horses. Julie, the owner/trail guide, was wonderful with our group of eight riders. The ride wound through some beautiful trails through forests and along the beaches around the point of Rincon. The Rincon ride doesn't spend as much time on the beach as the local ride nor does it have as much opportunity for riders to trot or canter if they wish. All in all it was fun, easy ride. It was a different experience from the local ride, which is what we expected and actually what we hoped for.

From Rincon our adventures took us south to Mayaquez and the experience of two hours of pre-holiday shopping and standing in line in Sam's Club, then back north for another hour or so in the Amigo grocery store (which is owned by Walmart). I'll leave that adventure to your imagination.

Then last night Darryl and I did a night dive through "The Caverns" here at Shacks. The reef at Shacks is pretty much like Swiss cheese with holes and tunnels and caves all through the reef. Many of them are "swim-throughs," passages a diver can literally swim through. We use several of these as passages between Blue Hole and the outer reef. "The Caverns" is a tour through the swim-throughs in and around Blue Hole. Darryl has done this tour many many times in the daylight, but this was his first night tour. Darryl was great. I, on the other hand, had a mild-to-medium panic attack. Don't know why. Everything was going swimmingly and suddenly I just kinda freaked, breathing hard, brain spinning ohmygod ohmygod! But between us Darryl and I got me calmed down enough to finish the dive and come out safely.

I think it was a learning adventure for both of us. Darryl has a better idea of how to lead a night tour through The Caverns and I have a better idea of how to deal with my own panic under water.

Our last adventure took us to 110 Thai. We weren't going to go but we remembered we were supposed to meet our nephew Ben there. He'd been waiting since about 8:00 and we remembered about 9:30. So off we went. It was a fun late evening, unexpectedly running into a number of good friends.

So, up this morning about to set off on a whole new set of adventures. It's gonna be a fun holiday weekend at Ola Lola's!

Happy July

And happy Canada Day!

How did it get to be July already? It really feels like we missed most of June. June, until the last week, was mostly cloudy and kinda gloomy and wet thanks to a couple of tropical low pressure areas (one of which became Hurricane Alex.)

Elaine divides her time taking care of and working with KTJ, her new Thoroughbred rescue, and riding Chocolate. I managed to get some diving in. We had such a good time diving at Desecheo two weeks ago we went back again. I posted some pictures from that dive as well as the best pictures from other dives so far this year on Flickr.

I haven't done a lot of photography lately. It feels like it's been months. I gotta work on that.

SCUBA at Desecheo

Desecheo is a small (1.5 square kilometers or just over 1/2 a square mile) island some 21 kilometers (14 miles) west of Puerto Rico. It is easily seen from Aguadilla, Rincon and Mayaquez riding on the horizon.

Two sites at Desecheo are listed in the top 10 Puerto Rico dive sites by Scuba Diving Magazine. The first is called "Candyland."

"Remember that old-school board game from your childhood? We dare you to tell us the huge, funky-shaped coral mounds don't look like the ones you remember from the Candyland game. There are a kaleidoscope of colors on this must-see reef, embodied in gigantic sea fans, lettuce corals and sponges . There are also crazy amounts of tropical fish, adding to the already surrealist vibe here. The maximum depth is about 80 feet." - Scuba Diving Magazine

Almost adjacent to Candyland is "Las Cuevas" - The Caves.

"Swim-through junkies, this is your spot. Welcome to a water wonderland of canyons and arches, where as many as 20 of you can explore at once, to your heart's content. Check out the triangular-looking windows that resemble Darth Vader's mask." - Scuba Diving Magazine

It's about a 45 minute boat ride out of Rincon to get to Desecheo. The ride out in the morning was pretty easy with light seas and beautiful sunshine. The ride back was a bit rougher through four-to-six foot seas. But it was really no problem for Cap'n Frank and the crew from Taino Divers in Rincon.

It was a beautiful pair of dives, a great day and a great time with Darryl, John D., Trevor, March and Ruchie from Technical Dive Center here in Aguadilla.

The two things that are most impressive about the Desecheo dives are 1) the 100-150 foot visibility and 2) the incredibly blue water of the Caribbean. The great visibility is due in large part to the fact that there are standing bodies of water and no rivers on Desecheo so there is no runoff. And there is a reason just about every paint company has a "Caribbean Blue" paint chip: it truly is spectacular. The minimal current, at least on our dive is also an advantage.

All that said: Diving right here, right off our beach at Shacks is a very similar dive to Candyland through the coral canyons of the outside reef. And the swim-throughs of the cavern tour around Blue Hole is actually more impressive than Las Cuevas. We frequently have 60-80 foot visibility here at Shacks. If Shacks has one disadvantage, it is the surge that sometimes comes up in the canyons. But that's a small price to pay for having dives that we can walk to from home.

Our local shore dives don't get much publicity from the magazines. The magazines get their information about dive sites from the Puerto Rico Tourism Company which in turn provides information from and about its paying members. That's okay as far as it goes but it means that magazine readers get a very limited view of what's actually available on the island. Some of the best dives are never reported. But in a way that's good: it slows the wrecking of the beaches and reefs and means less crowded dives for us locals. I'm okay with that.

Seeing double

"Well, I look out my window/what do you think I see?/I look out my window/and it's strange, so strange."

I thought I was seeing double! But it's just Lucky with Chocolate. Chocolate has a play-buddy for a while, until KTJ is ready to come down from the ranch. Lucky is our friend Sam's horse. She brought Lucky down to keep Chocolate company and so she could ride on the beach. So Elane and Chocolate have someone to play with and to ride with.

Oh yeah - Amber has two new swim buddies.

Adios, Sahara

This morning our friend Francisco took Sahara/Wavy-now-Lola up the road to her new home at "Hacienda Sanchez." (Francisco is the son of our dear dear friend and horseman extraordinaire Tito.) Many people thought this little filly had fallen in gravy when we rescued her. She's really in it now!

Francisco is himself a great young horseman. He sees a lot of possibility and has great plans for "Lola" (his name for her). He's planning to train her to show as well as to be a good little trail horse. He will work her hard but she will be so well taken care of. Francisco will give her the work and the training she needs to become the great little horse we all believe she can be.

The biggest reason for the move in the first place is to make room for KTJ, Elaine's new Thoroughbred filly. KTJ is up at the "ranch" (Ramey Riding Club) probably for another week or two while we get things ready for her here - not the least of which is strengthening the corral fences.

In the meantime Chocolate is a lonely guy, already missing his bud. He doesn't know KTJ yet. He doesn't know he's getting a new stablemate, only that his friend isn't with him.

We'll miss Sahara/Wavy/Lola too but we know she's got a great new home. And she's only half a mile away. We can always go visit.

Set the Wayback Machine for April

It's time to join Mr. Peabody and his pet boy Sherman and set the Wayback Machine for April.

Our friend David, the golf course designer, visits us once a month or so. (That's David in the pink shirt and straw hat.) Occasionally his wife Liane joins him. (Liane is the lovely lady next to David trying to hide from the camera.) In April, David brought his daughter Melanie and her beau Mark (Mark is in the purple shirt on the left; Melanie is next to him) and granddaughter Stephanie and her husband Joe (the only two left besides the fish) to spend some time on the island.

This was a belated honeymoon/first anniversary trip for Stephanie and Jon. So from all the gang at Ola Lola's a twice-belated (once because it took them a year to get here and once because it's taken me so long to write this) CONGRATULATIONS! and HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

By all accounts the gang had a great time PR. We hope they'll all come back and a visit again, with or without David.

Congratulations, Ana

Last night we had a great celebration at Ola Lola's: Our good friend Ana is graduating from college and we got to host her Graduation and Commencement Bash-o-rama. The celebration included the first (and hopefully last) performances by the Celebratory Durr-Durr Band. "Dr." John Delametter, "Dean" of the department of "FUNdamental Science," presented Ana with an official, framed diploma from "Loy-ola Lola University." And the commencement address was delivered by none other than Forest Gumpp's mother's ghost. Everybody had a great time, especially the new graduate. Congratulations, Ana!

All the drinks last night were served "shaken, not stirred." If you have friends in Puerto Rico on Facebook or Twitter, you've probably already read about the earthquake last night. A 5.8 magnitude quake hit Moca at 1:16 am. We are 12 km (7 miles) from the epicenter. I was just getting to bed after Ana's party and definitely felt the house shake. It felt like being right next to a major road and having a bunch of big heavy trucks go by very slowly. A lot of people we know slept (including Elaine) slept through it.

From what we've heard so far, there was some minor damage to buildings but no one was hurt. There were however a lot of freaked out people.

Leave Arizona to the Arizonians

A friend of ours just got back from a business trip to Phoenix. She is a beautiful, dark-skinned Puerto Rican woman. In Phoenix she was stopped and asked for her identification. She produced a valid Puerto Rican driver's license and was told that it was not acceptable because it was "not from the US." Our friend responded "yes, Puerto Rico is part of the US." The officer who stopped her said, "No it's not," and demanded her passport. Of course she did not have her passport because - since Puerto Rico is in fact part of the US - a passport is not required for US citizens (which all Puerto Ricans are) to travel between the island and the mainland.

Arizona's new anti-immigration law is scheduled to go into full effect on July 28, 2010. The law "obligates police to make an attempt, when practicable, to determine a person's immigration status if there is reasonable suspicion that the person is an illegal alien^[21] during a police stop for some other offense.^[22] Police may arrest a person if there is probable cause that the person is an alien not in possession of required registration documents." Acceptable documents are "the following four forms of identification: (a) a valid Arizona driver license; (b) a valid Arizona nonoperating identification license; (c) a valid tribal enrollment card or other tribal identification; or (d) any valid federal, state, or local government-issued identification,"

Within a week of its signing, the bill was changed with "the amended text stating that 'prosecutors would not investigate complaints based on race, color or national origin.'^[25] The new text also states that police may only investigate immigration status incident to a 'lawful stop, detention, or arrest.'"

(Quotes are from Wiki-pedia.)

The Arizona governor said "profiling will not be allowed" to enforce the new law. If there is no profiling, on what basis will the the police determine "reasonable suspicion?" Either everybody is presumed innocent, everyone is presumed guilty, or some people are presumed guilty and others innocent. There must be some basis for how the latter are determined. Sounds like profiling to me.

By the way, on this same trip in the same town, our friend was denied entrance to a club while her lighter-skinned companions were admitted.

Seems like Arizonians want Arizona all to themselves. I say let 'em have it.

A new arrival

Sometimes something is going on and you just don't understand it and then you discover the Universe had something else in mind for you.

Last year at this time we were planning to go to Milwaukee to perform at a kite festival. At the last minute we had to cancel because of Elaine's shoulder injury. Instead of flying kites in Milwaukee, we were here, opening Ola Lola's. On Friday night, our son (whom we hadn't seen in more than two years) showed up with a friend and our granddaughter completely unannounced. It was a tough decision to not make our trip to Milwaukee but when we saw Steven walking across the parking lot, we understood why we were supposed to stay here.

Something similar has happened this year. For three weeks we have struggled to find travel arrangements back to Milwaukee to perform at this year's festival that fit both the event's budget and ours. We had just figured out we couldn't do it when we got the message that a horse we were planning to adopt in July was coming TODAY.

Holy Horse! We spent yesterday racing around making arrangements for her and this morning about 10 am she arrived. She - her name is KTJ - is a three-year-old filly rescued from the race track here on the island by Save the Horses, Inc. and Hacienda Siesta Allegre. She's a big girl, 16 hands plus. She needs to put on some weight but otherwise is in good health. She has been trained, ridden and shown by a young girl on the east side of the island for several months which is why we didn't expect to see her until July, after the show season. But the young rider is no longer showing her and now KTJ is here.

For now, she is staying up on top of the mountain at the Ramey Riding Club. She has a stall, which she is used to. There is also a round pen where Elaine can work with here, helping to her to get comfortable in her new home. Eventually, she will move down here with Chocolate and - for now - Sahara.

As you can see from the picture, KTJ is a big, beautiful dark bay. We toyed with the idea of calling her Dark Chocolate to play off Chocolate but KTJ she is. She's a little nervous still but quite well behaved for all that.

So now we start on another new adventure. And now we know why we had such a difficult time with travel plans: the Universe was keeping us here to take care of the new arrival.

Happy Mother's Day

To all the mothers and the mothers of mothers, to everyone who has a mother - Happy Mother's Day. Elaine and both miss our mothers, not just on this day, but every day.

Okay, more new news

Today Elaine and I did our second "solo duo" dive, this time at Wishing Well. We've snorkeled this beautiful reef many times. It's a great snorkel. As soon as you enter the water, you are on the reef. There is lots of life, fish, eels, and many soft corals. And it's not deep.

We've talked for a long time about diving at Wishing Well. There is so much to see there and as beautiful as snorkeling is, you're still an outsider peering in. On SCUBA, you can be part of that world, at least for a little while. You can just hang there and watch the fish. If you swim calmly and quietly, you can sometimes approach much closer to the fish. You can peer under ledges that weren't even apparent from the surface.

On this dive our deepest depth was 21 feet. There is a lot to be said for shallow water diving. For one thing, your air lasts much longer. I'm an "air hog" and even I was down for 45 minutes and only used half of my available air. (For those who aren't aware, because of the laws of physics, one uses more air in less time when you dive deeper. For example, diving to about 65 feet, 45 minutes is about the best I've done using more than twice as much air as I did at Wishing Well.)

The light and the colors are brighter when you are shallow. Water absorbs light and color the deeper you, starting with the red end of the spectrum. On shallower dives the colors are more "natural."

For Elaine the two long shallow dives have been an easy comfortable way to get back into diving. For various reasons (mostly injuries) she has not bee diving for almost a year. These two dives helped her get comfortable under water in (relatively) safe, low stress, (pun intended) low pressure environment.

By the way - that's a lionfish we saw at Wishing Well. Lionfish are a very agressive invasive species that have found their way into most parts of the Caribbean. According to NOAA's National Ocean Service, lionfish have been in the Atlantic for at least 25 years. We're seeing more and more of them around here.

New news

Before we get back to old news, here's an update from today.

Elaine and I went SCUBA diving today, together, just the two of us. We spent 45 leisurely minutes swimming around the piers at Crashboat Beach. We literally swam in a natural aquarium with hundreds and hundreds of fish, some of which swam right up to us. At one point Elaine was obscured by clouds of sergeant major fish, night majors, Spanish hogfish, and ocean surgeons.

This is something we've been working toward, where we can go out diving together regardless of who else is available. But don't worry, Darryl, we still like diving with you.

More old news later.

New old news

So - where have we been for a month? Here, mostly but for some reason not writing although there is much to write about.

This is something I've been meaning to write about for quite a while. A lot of people are interested in "The Project" down the road from us toward Villa Tropical. According to information we received, apparently the property owners have abandoned the idea of building a condo complex there. (Despite the name, Shacks Resort, it was never going to be a "resort," just condos.)

They are now planning to sell the property off as individual building lots.



This is the communication in the original Spanish and below that is an English translation.

Shacks Resort en Isabela Puerto Rico, es un desarrollo residencial turístico de 112 unidades de vivienda debidamente autorizadas y con plano de construcción. Este proyecto fue diseñado tomando en consideración los más altos parámetros de estética y tecnología con miras a preservar el medio ambiente y el alto valor del área. Su construcción final estará muy atado al alto valor en el predio de terreno.

Los que conocen Shacks, saben que es conocido a nivel como una de las mejores playas del mundo, por la diversidad de deportes marinos que se pueden practicar en un mismo lugar, otros han señalado que es la mejor, por que esta llena de gratas sorpresas como la Cueva del Manatí, áreas para practicar scuba diving, surfing, snorkeling, natación, sky surfing, windsurfing y otros.

Basado en una gran cantidad de factores y con miras a preservar este pedazo de tierra para las generaciones futuras, teniendo un gran significado, ya que algunos de nuestros hijos han crecido y se han desarrollado en esta playa, hemos tomado la decisión de reducir significativamente la densidad del desarrollo y su concepto para mejorar el balance entre desarrollo y ambiente. Los parámetros en el diseño Los pasos son los siguientes:

1. Reducir la cantidad de unidades de vivienda a un máximo de 31, con solares que varían desde 600 hasta 900 metros cuadrados aproximadamente.
2. Precios atractivos para el mercado local e internacional comenzando en $400.00 hasta un máximo de $850.00 por metro cuadrado.
3. Mantener unas restricciones en la construcción de unidades de vivienda con parámetros de uniformidad, valor de la construcción y discreción de cada dueño del solar para construir cada unidad de vivienda cuando estime pertinente, basado en factores económicos o en el momento que crean pertinente.

Estos cambios convertirán al proyecto Shacks Resort en un diseño de 31 solares de vivienda con un gran valor, debido a lo limitado y difícil que es conseguir solares con frente de playa o acceso inmediato a la exclusiva playa de Shacks. Algunas de las ventajas adicionales para los potenciales compradores son las siguientes:

1. Control de acceso para mantener la seguridad en el complejo.
2. Uniformidad en la construcción, para mantener un alto valor en la inversión.
3. Área de estacionamiento para cada solar sin tener que caminar hasta su unidad residencial.
4. Verjas en toda la periferia del proyecto.
5. Provisión para espacio de estacionamiento para visitantes.
6. Casa Club con piscina para evitar incurrir en gastos adicionales en facilidades recreativas.
7. Disponibilidad de utilizar la unidad de vivienda como residencial principal o someterla a un régimen de arrendamiento que produzca ingresos adicionales.
8. Amplia calle de acceso.
9. Nueva infraestructura de energía eléctrica y agua potable para evitar interrupciones.


Los que tengan un interés real en conocer un poco mas de Shacks Resort pueden comunicarse con nosotros, ya que en los próximos días comenzaremos con reuniones por invitación exclusiva para un grupo selecto que puedan invertir en este bello paraíso.

English translation

Shacks Resort in Isabela, Puerto Rico, is a tourist residential development of 112 housing units duly authorized and blueprinted. This project was designed by taking into consideration the highest parameters of aesthetics and technology in order to preserve the environment and the high value of the area. Its final construction will be very high value attached to the parcel of land.

Those who know Shacks, know that it is renowned as one of the best beaches in the world, the diversity of water sports that can be practiced in one place, others have pointed out is the best, that is full of pleasant surprises Cave and Manatee areas to practice scuba diving, surfing, snorkeling, swimming, sky surfing, windsurfing and more.

Based on a large number of factors and in order to preserve this piece of land for future generations, because it has great meaning, as some of our children have grown and developed at this beach, we have decided to significantly reduce density of development and its concept to improve the balance between development and environment. The parameters in the design steps are:

1. Reduce the number of housing units to a maximum of 31, with lots ranging from 600-900 square meters.
2. Attractive prices for local and international market starting at $ 400.00 up to $ 850.00 per square meter.
3. Maintain restrictions on the construction of housing units with uniform parameters, value of construction and discretion of each owner of the land to build each housing unit when it deems appropriate, based on economic factors or when they deem appropriate.

These changes will make the Shacks Resort project a design of 31 housing lots with great value, because of limited availability and how difficult it is to get beachfront building lots ,or immediate access to the exclusive Shacks Beach. Some of the additional benefits to potential buyers are:

1. Access control to maintain security in the complex.
2. Consistency of construction to maintain a high value on investment.
3. Parking area for each lot without having to walk to their residential unit.
4. Fences around the periphery of the project.
5. Provision for parking space for visitors.
6. Clubhouse with pool to avoid incurring additional recreational facilities.
7. Availability for use as residential dwelling unit or subject it to a principal leased to produce additional revenue.
8. Wide access road.
9. New infrastructure for electricity and water to avoid interruptions.

Those who have a real interest in knowing a little more than Shacks Resort please contact us, and that in the coming days we will begin with meetings at the invitation-only a select group that can invest in this beautiful paradise. (We have the phone numbers if you're interested. )

This is indeed a great step forward. This is in fact a piece of property that is attractive for development. Something is going to be built there. We like the idea of much lower density individual building sites rather than high-density condos.

More old news tomorrow.