Our Cayman trip In spite of our intentions as described
in our Christmas letter, Deborah and I found an airfare bargain on a last
minute flight and went to Grand Cayman for a week from Christmas day to
New Year's day.
There isn't much to see above the
water in Grand Cayman, and I didn't have a camera suitable for the depths
when I was scuba diving, but we took some shots while snorkelling with
the cheap little disposable underwater cameras that you can buy in drugstores.
I promised to put some of these shots on line, so here they are.
There were lots of pretty fish, and
corals, and a few weird looking fish that I hadn't
seen before.
By free-diving deep (about 30 feet
- I had to doctor these photos to bring out the light), I got down close
to turtles and barracudas
The most fun we had was at Stingray
City. Deborah dove there, and we went there together on a snorkelling
trip on our second last day. We both got to pet stingrays - lovely
creatures that someone referred to as "slippery puppies".
They came running...er, flying...er,
swimming, when we got into the water - they've learned that snorkellers
will feed them.
Deborah fed squid to them.
She teased one with a piece of squid in her hand, but as it tried to follow
her hand she turned her forearm toward it, and it fastened onto her arm
and sucked a lovely hickie. She was quite proud of her hickie, and
sad when the bruise disappeared.
We also saw green moray eels, which
the videographer fed while I snapped pictures; and I got to pet nurse sharks
and hold onto them while they pulled me along for a ride in the water.
The eel would get enticed out for a bite to eat, and as soon as he got
it, he'd high-tail it back to his hole under the rock. The sharks were
like pesky dogs, once they knew the eel was going to be fed they wouldn't
leave the action. I even have one shot (below) with the eel, a shark
and a stingray all in the viewfinder at once.
