Last Day in GRand Cayman - April 5th





Last Day in Grand Cayman April 6th

Last post before heading for Dominican Republic which may take about 10 days or so. Just wanted to add to our good days in Grand Cayman.
We started our day yesterday with the best dive I have been on yet. We dove not too far from the boat in an area where the fish are probably fed by the dive charters when they go out. The fish were all gathering around our dinghy when we were tied up to the dive site mooring ball. They were a bit disappointed when we finally got in the water as we had nothing for them. We dove on coral which has lots of little gulleys and caves and overhangs. When we went under the overhangs we were in beautiful colourful caves with light shining through various openings above and fish swimming around us, plus all sorts of life forms on the coral opening and closing. For awhile we had a few Tarpin swimming with us. These are very big fish – about 4 feet – who again are used to humans providing them with food.
It was a beautiful dive and I was sorry when our air ran out and it was time to ascend.
I’m sure we will find other equally beautiful places to dive in our future travels.
We went ashore to one of the many dive shops, filled up our tanks, hosed ourselves and our gear off and went back to the boat in preparation for the next part of our day.
Our new friends Ray and Julie who live on Grand Cayman picked us up at about noon and took us for a tour of the entire island in their car. Driving around the island takes about 3 hours and there is very different terrain all around. We understand now why the food costs a lot on Grand Cayman – because nothing is really grown here. There is volcanic rock as you’ll see in the pictures from Hell, and other type of hard rock which is not suitable for anything much so it is left to scrub land.
Ray and Julie live in a beautiful complex with many other ex-pats from different parts of the world. We went to their yacht club in the North Sound which is a huge very shallow bay which is perfect for their dinghy racing. They also took us to Rum Point, which was the most crowded but beautiful resort we have seen in some time with many smaller power boats anchored off. Many of these boats are probably kept in canals. There are many canals here with houses alongside and people dock their shallow draft boats right outside their houses.
We wound of this fabulous day at Hammerhead restaurant on the beach looking out at Moondancer X waiting for us to come home.
Thanks very much for your generosity Ray and Julie and best of luck with your boat purchase.
A few times I have said in this blog that though Tony and I have visited many beautiful places we have never found anywhere we would like to stay for a long time – Grand Cayman is the exception, this is a gorgeous place with almost everything people like us would need to have a happy home – except of course our families.

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