[sammyg2]

Hot, dry, flat and windy all the time. It's actually a desert. 80 degrees at night, 90 during the day.
Stay on the resort strip. Don't go into the real part. The locals suck.
Snorkeling is great.


Many years ago, Exxon owned a large refinery on the island.
The local gubmint extorted a desalinization plant, electrical generating plant, all sort of things. they were FEES.
They passed a law that a high percentage of locals had to be employed and couldn't be fired, so exxon had to hire almost 1000 deadbeats who refused to do ANYTHING.

They passed law after law until the refinery could no longer break even due to the incredible costs from the parasitic locals.
Exxon eventually had enough and told them to shove it up their stoopid hind end and filled the entire refinery with salt water and walked away, leaving it almost worthless.

Eventually a company called coastal bought it for almost nothing and re-opened it, but it cost a fortune and wasn't worth operating. The refinery has changed hands a few more times, currently valero owns it and is trying to sell it but no one is stoopid enough to buy it because of the local leeches.