GRAND CAYMAN TRIP -- NOVEMBER 2003

OUR GRAND CAYMAN TRIP -- NOVEMBER 2003

HERE ARE SOME PICTURES FROM OUR GRAND CAYMAN TRIP.

Thomas holds a sea turtle at Turtle Farm on Seven Mile Beach. They release about 15% of the turtles they raise into the wild each year. Unfortunately, the other 85% get eaten or made into tourist junk.

Here's Jake with his pal:

These are some pictures from the trip to the botanical gardens on the island. This was a great park full of native flora and fauna. Iguanas were everywhere!

Here is the house we rented and a few pictures from the Rum Point Beach club. Rum Point was one house away from where we stayed, so each day we walked up the beach and hung out. There was a great bar, lunch place, watersports, etc. The kids met other kids everyday and had a ball.

One day we took the glass bottom boat out to Stingray Sandbar, where you can swim with the Stingrays. What a bizarre experience. The kids, after a few minutes, decided they felt better in the boat. There are literally hundreds of stingrays that hang out here and rub against you looking for food. One was so aggressive it climbed up Johns back and gave him a hickey. They have no teeth, just a strong vaccuum for a mouth, sucking up animals and other things from the bottom of the ocean.

Later on the boat stopped at the "Coral Gardens" where there was more peaceful snorkeling. We gave the underwater camera to the boys, but they were more interested in taking pictures of each other than the fish:

On our last day, some workers came to the house to do the gardening and one of the men educated us about coconuts. Thompson, one of the workers, told us that you need to cut open the green ones and drink the milk -- it's much sweeter than the old brown coconuts. Then he got out his machete and made the boys a treat!