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Real Time update 23JAN23
Okay, guests left yesterday, my diving craving is satisfied, so back to the task at hand.
Yesterday while at the airstrip dropping our guests off for a flight to Roatan, an elderly gentleman pulled up on his quad and just sat there. Being me, and knowing that the older folks on the island know EVERYTHING about the island, I struck up a conversation with him. Turns out he is Mr. George, who's family owns one of the main water purifiers on the island. I asked him if he knew who owned the land immediately next to the air strip, which I have been eyeing since it looks like great field potential. He surprisingly said that his family owned that, and had for generations. He must have thought I wanted to buy it, as he said hi family would never sell it, and even if they were to discuss it, EVERYONE in the family would have to agree to selling, which is "impossible". I told him that I did not want to purchase the land, but was looking for land to play a game on. He asked what kind of game and I described airsoft to him as he had never heard of it. He just smiled and said "that sounds like great fun and something I would have loved to do when I was younger". We went on talking and it turns out that he had heard of my efforts to organize and reopen the fire department here on the island, and also that my wife had helped his dying sister a few months back. He shook my hand, thanked me and told me "you use that land whenever you want for your game". Well, this morning, my partner and I went and actually walked the land. It is almost perfect! Overall dimensions are approximately 300 yards by 120 yards (ish) with plenty of trees, fenced boundaries, soil not rocks between said trees, even has a higher mound in the middle. Enough room for a megagame or even 3 or 4 smalller fields depending on what scenarios we play. Most of it is what I will call "jungleish" with some undergrowth etc, but plenty of runnable open space, then some of it is definite jungle with more dense foliage to work through. Enough trees to provide about 80% shade over the entire field, so playing in this island sun and heat will be easier. In short, we love the field and have found a home!
In other developments, the new shipper received our stuff last Thursday, so now we are merely waiting on the boat to leave on January 30th. Approximately 4 weeks after that, we should have our gear here. We plan to do a giant unboxing and film it. I am sure there will be many more hurdles to clear in getting ti here, but we will stay on top of it as best we can.
I plan to try to get in touch with the distributor (?) that Guges MK3 found at SHOT last week and see if future purchases can be made and shipped through him. We will see.
I think that catches everyone up for now.
Sarge out
Okay, guests left yesterday, my diving craving is satisfied, so back to the task at hand.
Yesterday while at the airstrip dropping our guests off for a flight to Roatan, an elderly gentleman pulled up on his quad and just sat there. Being me, and knowing that the older folks on the island know EVERYTHING about the island, I struck up a conversation with him. Turns out he is Mr. George, who's family owns one of the main water purifiers on the island. I asked him if he knew who owned the land immediately next to the air strip, which I have been eyeing since it looks like great field potential. He surprisingly said that his family owned that, and had for generations. He must have thought I wanted to buy it, as he said hi family would never sell it, and even if they were to discuss it, EVERYONE in the family would have to agree to selling, which is "impossible". I told him that I did not want to purchase the land, but was looking for land to play a game on. He asked what kind of game and I described airsoft to him as he had never heard of it. He just smiled and said "that sounds like great fun and something I would have loved to do when I was younger". We went on talking and it turns out that he had heard of my efforts to organize and reopen the fire department here on the island, and also that my wife had helped his dying sister a few months back. He shook my hand, thanked me and told me "you use that land whenever you want for your game". Well, this morning, my partner and I went and actually walked the land. It is almost perfect! Overall dimensions are approximately 300 yards by 120 yards (ish) with plenty of trees, fenced boundaries, soil not rocks between said trees, even has a higher mound in the middle. Enough room for a megagame or even 3 or 4 smalller fields depending on what scenarios we play. Most of it is what I will call "jungleish" with some undergrowth etc, but plenty of runnable open space, then some of it is definite jungle with more dense foliage to work through. Enough trees to provide about 80% shade over the entire field, so playing in this island sun and heat will be easier. In short, we love the field and have found a home!
In other developments, the new shipper received our stuff last Thursday, so now we are merely waiting on the boat to leave on January 30th. Approximately 4 weeks after that, we should have our gear here. We plan to do a giant unboxing and film it. I am sure there will be many more hurdles to clear in getting ti here, but we will stay on top of it as best we can.
I plan to try to get in touch with the distributor (?) that Guges MK3 found at SHOT last week and see if future purchases can be made and shipped through him. We will see.
I think that catches everyone up for now.
Sarge out
