As my wife (rutgers2 on this site) already mentioned we were spending our last morning at Banana Beach that morning and saw when they brought the monkey over. She offered to call SAGA but that was deemed unnecessary.

The monkey was being very friendly with a large group of visitors, particularly one young man and a lot of the kids who were petting him.

On our way to breakfast we stopped down to see him up close, I crouched down to get a look at him and he walked over to me and put his arm over my shoulder and touched his head to mine. Kind of like giving a hug and a kiss.

Later I was back up on our balcony and he swung through, literally. The crowd was mostly breaking up but some people were staying to take photos from the beach.

As I look at our vacation photos now it saddens me to know that the animal reaching out to me in the pictures met an ugly death a short while later. At the time it was very well behaved so I was shocked to read how it went down.

I just wish something else could have been done to pacify it without hurting it. Just a terrible turn of events.