Day 4 - landing at Grand Cayman in Cayman Island.
As usual, we started our day by eating breakfast outside. It was so nice to have a nice breakfast delivered to our room and we could have it at the terrace by looking at beautiful ocean and sky.
While there was only our ship in Jamaica, there were total of FIVE including ours in Cayman Island. I had never seen this many cruise ships at once, so it was very cool.
Jamaica was a nice island in terms of nature but we felt that it was very poor country - people were begging for money everywhere we went.
Cayman Island was much more upscale island. We had a plan to play with stingrays (Aka-Ei in Japanese) and snorkeling. I have a scuba diving license, so I know it is difficult to see them in the ocean, but there is a famous spot in Cayman Island where they are swimming in a shallow area in the middle of ocean. After 20 minutes of boat ride, we arrived at the spot where several boats were already parking. It was only 2-3 feet deep and there were tons of stingrays swimming between the people. They were like dogs - liking to play with people. We were able to touch them (up to 5 feet long) and actually to kiss them which was considered "good luck" there.
Day 5 was all day on the ocean, so we did not do anything special, but hanged out at the pool side.
Last dinner on the ship was very memorable. One of the couples at the table - Greg and Holly from Ohio (in the right picture) celebrated their 20th anniversary. We were fortunate enough to be part of their celebration.
The other couple - Eric and Laura (in the left picture) were from Alabama and she had her birthday on the first night.
We were lucky to have TWO extra cakes because of these two celebrations. We will keep in touch with them and maybe we will meet up in NYC, Ohio or Alabama some day.
Great cruise trip and we will do it again maybe to Alaska next time (but not next year though...)
No comments:
Post a Comment