Few things are as resilient as the beggars on Seven Mile Beach in Negril, Jamaica. Fortunately, another Negril landmark, Rick's Café, is one of those things that is just that resilient.
In its 35-year history, Rick's has twice been completely destroyed by massive hurricanes. Hurricane Gilbert rocked Rick's in 1988, and then Hurricane Ivan turned the café into sticks with 80-foot-high waves in 2004. Both times, however, Rick's Café has come back better than ever, giving visitors a view of one of the most beautiful sunsets in the world, plenty of cold Red Stripes and some crazy-ass cliff divers to watch in the meantime.
Here's a quick video I took of one of the professional cliff divers, who climbed a tree above the highest cliff for this epic leap.
Sharing a name with the bar that served as a main character in "Casablanca," Rick's offers tremendous people-watching on top of everything else. The long bus ride, the annoying fat chicks with no bus etiquette, the disappointing Seven Mile Beach, the toking bus driver, getting stuck at Margaritaville … almost all of that was made worth it by grabbing a front-row seat to have a few cervezas while watching a stunning sunset in the rain. Pictures like this helped Rick's Café salvage a four-hour round-trip bus ride nearly by itself.
Here's another cool one just before the sun disappeared.
Named one of the 1,000 places to go before you die, Rick's has a prime location on West End Road in Negril, 35-foot-high cliffs to jump off, a tremendous cove … and a fearless outlook on hurricanes.
Be sure to check it out if you have the opportunity …
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There has to be a Rick Roll joke in here somewhere....
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