So far I think I’ve loved today the best. First we went out to Stingray City with the dive shop at our resort. We were the first boat out there so we had all of the stingrays to ourselves. Well at least for the first 10-15 minutes or so. Then we were invaded by lots of boats full of cruise ship people (there were 4 in port today!). But the time we did get with them ourselves was fun. I freaked out at first just like last year. But after a while I calmed down enough to pet, hold, and kiss them. Eventually Chase convinced me I’d live if I fed one so we did. And wow, they have some strong suckers on them. But it was fun. And they’re so soft, it’s really unlike you might expect just by looking at them. After that we scooted over to the Barrier Reef and snorkelled there for a bit. We saw a moray eel and plenty of fish. Evidently the eel attempted to chase me, but I didn’t know until Chase informed me once I was out of the water. As Chase puts it, “it was 6 inches from your flipper, how did you not know?!?”

After returning back to the villa for lunch we took our Jeep out to the Botanical Gardens. It was definitely hot! But we did see some really cool looking flowers and a couple captive and two wild iguanas. I believe they all were the rare blue iguana that can only be found here in the Cayamans.

Next stop was a little turn-off known as the Blowholes. It’s an area where the water has receded from an older reef so when the waves crash on it the water gets sprayed up through holes making it look like the blowhole on a dolphin or whale. It was pretty amazing. I took lots of pictures of the waves crashing here because of how neat it looked.

Tomorrow’s Rum Point and to see the north side of the island on the east side (we reside on the north side of the west side). Evidently it’s supposed to be one of the best beaches to go to on the island; we’ve already been to the other of the best beaches — Seven Mile beach.