Grand Cayman

Dec 11th
Grand Cayman

Today was my second stop in the Caymans. I got off the ship right after lunch to walk to a beach with Pieter, his girlfriend Caro, and Gianni. We walked along the coast line for about a half hour till we got to a beach detached from the tourist points of interest. It was a small little cove, known as Smith’s Cove, but was beautiful. The water in the Caymans is some of the clearest I’ve ever seen, and the beach was no exception to that. I had a great time swimming for a while, just enjoying the great weather and warm water, especially when considering all the ice storms going on at home (ha!). Pieter and Caro left early due to her work schedule, while Gianni and I stuck around for a little bit longer before finally packing up to walk back. Before we left though, Gianni had become intrigued by a coconut tree, which he then scaled in order to retrieve a coconut from. Luckily, it wasn’t the tallest tree. After pulling the coconut from the tree, he started stabbing at the top of it with a fork he had found on the ground, surely not the most sanitary means of opening a coconut, but it was a start. Soon after, and car pulled up to the beach, and after watching us struggle with the fork method, offered us a screw driver to stab the thing with. And after a few minutes of unskilled stabbings, we did managed to break the nut inside and drink the coconut water, which was really good. I let Gianni have the most of it seeing as he was leaving the Caribbean the next day. We then walked back to the terminal, boarded the tender, and sailed back to the ship. The tender, however, took much longer than expected to fill with people, and by the time we arrived at the ship, it was 4:05, five minutes past our arrival deadline. This means that after we wait for all the passengers to get off the tender, the remaining crew sign on to the ship where security then confiscates our sea pass cards, the cards with our ID and our credit card on the ship. I’m supposed to pick it up from security tomorrow, at which point they will punch a hole in the card and warn me about the consequences of being late. I’m not too upset because the whole tendering operation is totally bogus, and the extra time spent hacking away at the coconut with Gianni was totally worth it. Anyways, that was about it for the day aside from a production show that night. Thanks!