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Show THE DAILY HERALD, (www.HarkTheHerald.com), Page E2 Fishiri g Provo, Utah, Sunday, May 28, 2000 wa ge feSves as iresoirS: ; Now that's a long way to carry a torch. ' Summer is a magical WORSHAM Continued from El time. A time to attempt the impossible. A time to have fun with pals. A time to make sure to fTfTOOT TREASURE BEACH, sports-zon- s Jamaica (AP) a and reggae mix of rap and reggae blast from a tower of speakers. Around a ragged pool table tourists are getting the better of the local - Old-root- Did you know they launched a replica of the Olympic torch into space? The Olympic torch will be accompanied by the Sydney 2000 Olympic flag which also has been stored on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis inside the Official Flight Kit. bard-drivin- g ,' competition. A crowd gath- '" j " e. ers young local men, hootine and hollerine. swilling Red Stripe beer. It's a new take on tourism in Jamaica, a and place as crime-riddeimpoverished as it is alluringly beautiful. While many tourists tend to stay bring a diskman and a laptop on your vacations. Matt Worsham is a teenage driver on the Information Superhighway (with- -, out a license). You can reach him atAstromatl4aol.com. n take guided tours, there's another side to the country, evident in the grittier scene at Treasure Beach. A ramshackle fishing area on Jamaica's southeast coast, Treasure Beach attracts an array of from fashion visitors models to penniless who out of or poverty preference avoid more upscale alternatives that have made Jamaica a major tourist destination. "Treasure Beach is very raw," says Jason Henzel,. owner of Jake's Place, a seaside collection of colorful adobelike villas. "In back-nacke- u ..., i rs Continued from El Lewisand-CiaTk-to- The Associated Press Village feel: An awning provides a little shade at an Treasure Beach, Jamaica. Treasure Beach can be reached via Donald Sangster International (Phone or or www.islandoutpost.com on the Net) has 12 rooms and a villa at rates from 876-96314- Jamaica and other major airlines fly from Miami and most major North American cities. Round-trifares begin, i AWwiWJM. Treasure Cot offers a (876-965-318- villa for 5 m $295 per night. Rest has rates from Ital (876-965-323- a night. $30-$4- 0 At Coyaba $75-$15- Treasure Beach Hotel has villa rates from night. (876-965-004- a rents for $195 per three-bedroo- (876-965-254- at about $300. at Jake's Place hotel on t 877-526-24- p $77-$11- m p vll-lage- s, hotel, villa and guest house donates a small nprrpntaup nf rpveniips tn tne ireasure Jseacn Foundation, which funds local school improvements and other projects. Farmers sell their pro- duce to guest houses and many a fisherman's catch ends up on the plates of tourists. Local taxi drivers ferry visitors from the airport in Montego Bay to town a LODGING: Air villa e Jake's Place GETTING THERE: Airport in Montego Bay. u roadside sign welcomes visitors to Treasure Beach, which is actually a collection of home to several hundred people, located on four small bays. It proclaims the area is the "home of community tourism," Much of the lodging is owned by residents or people with connections to the area. Nearly every adobe-styl- IF YOU GO man with big knives in we're in a fishing village." beat-u- three-hour- , hair-raisin- g dash down narrow, pockmarked country roads ractdalang-thejwayJt- o oi the Pacific. the time to update the their belts. Hey A bers and checking the soil for mercury, a medicine Lewis administered to fight venereal diseases the men FORT that Rebecca Gianopolous, book editor a from New York City, compared to a "video game." Director General Carol Brady seems sympathetic. "We don't intend to overbuild," he says. "For the south coast we are . looking at just pretend that if the car crashes, you get another life," she jokes. community-baseRooms without air con tourism." ;' Jamaica's tourism ditioning go for as little as $30 a night tough to industry transformed other oncp-quihamlets match in Jamaica, and like Negril and Ocho Rios cheap enough to attract locals as well. for masses of tourists. Official figures aren't Sprawling resorts help draw more than 1 million available, but hoteliers visitors a year to the say tourism has doubled in recent years, raising island, but in the process fears that the big resorts many smaller'businesses were pushed out, that abound in Montego l The, bigger resort towns Bay, Ocho Rios arid Negril have also become magnets may soon be headed this for Jamaica's notorious way. To prevent that, Henzel "higgler" vendors who and other local business aggressively hawk everypeople are lobbying the thing from wood carvings government to restrict the to marijuana and cocaine. Cocaine and marijuana number of rooms per acre can also be had in Treasure from the current 30 to 10. Beach. But the dealers Tourism Ministry "You low-impac- t, d unobrespect the trusive ambience, delicately inquiring whether visitors laid-bac- k, "need anything." "Sometimes a hustler come in from Negril or Montego Bay, but word gets around," says local fisherman Tim Anderson, The site is located off Highway 101 in Astoria. There is an entrance fee, $2 a person or $4 a family. expedition's records, fill in the blanks on their maps and catalog the plants, animals and people they encountered. In their journals, the explorers noted that it rained on all but 12 of the 106 days they used the fort, and men resorted to smoking tree bark after the tobacco stores were depleted. , Park rangers, in period costumes, demonstrate the activities that went on during that winter, such as firing flintlock rifles, writing with quill pens and making canoes out of logs. Kids can take a turn in the guard's shed, wearing a period costume. On the paths from the visitor's center to the fort and down to the canoe landing on the Lewis and Clark River, are plants that were discovered by Lewis and Clark, all duly marked. Park officials say interest in the site's been spurred by Ken Burns' PBS documentary on the expedition and the approaching Lewis and Clark Bicentennial. 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