2014-12-10 Grand Cayman:


I really looked forward to going here again.  Angie, my son Tim and his wife (then girlfriend) Faith and I spent a week here back in 2001 and had a great time.  Possibly the best snorkeling I'd ever done.  We had done the stingray adventure, turtle farm, and Hell back then.  We also had snorkeled by a dive shop right in Georgetown.  So planning our day here was easy---Angie and I were going to snorkel and Jane and Carolyn were going to shop right around the port.  Unfortunately, for some reason we couldn't tender there, so we went to another side of the island and tendered in.  I did find it interesting that the Disney ship did tender into Georgetown.  Anyway---there wasn't much where we tendered, so we decided to take a bus to 7 Mile Beach.  Carolyn elected to stay on board the ship.  Such a shame with such a neat island.  The bus ride was $7@ (about $1/mile).   They made sure the bus was totally packed---including middle jump seats!
Where we tendered into.  

Jam packed bus! Note the happy people in the jump seats.

Lots of banks.

the Public Park at 7 Mile Beach.

 Snorkeling there wasn't good at all.

the typical beach floor.

The surf was a little high, too.

Plus the land area got VERY crowded very quickly.  

So after about an hour, we took a selfie and headed back to the bus.

 Jane posing with her new pirate friend.

driving through Georgetown---all the necessities of life.

 typical downtown.

 Margaritaville

David Yurman!

 government building

 scenery away from town.

We noticed some people were snorkeling by the tender area.  So Angie and I decided to give it a try.  Not bad!

 huge needle fish

 fair amount of fish and the water was really calm and clear --- unlike at 7 mile.

no beach, though.

 could have swam back to the ship.

but we didn't.

 another surgeonfish

some nice coral

Flamingo Tongue Snail on a fan coral.

more coral 

 ring tail surgeonfish and a hogfish.

 looking at the area we snorkeled from the tender boat.

 the incredibly clear beautiful water.

Back to our ship.

back on board, we got ready for dinner and headed to the restaurant.  We had to wait a little while for Andrews team, but that just gave us more time to listen to the two-tones, again, in the Atrium.   

 After dinner we headed to the main theatre and participated in the Game Show Wee Jimmie was directing.  Here's Carolyn incorrectly answering how many checkers on each side of a checker board.

Here's Angie correctly answering the name of Calvin's stuffed tiger---Hobs.

That made her the captain of her team.

 Angie's team.  They didn't win, but they did each get a cute little portable Yahtzee game.

 Later it was time for more refreshments.

 Not what I had planned for today, but it still turned out great.  And I got to see some of Grand Cayman that the kids and I didn't see on our land trip.