Our second stop on the cruise was George Town on the Cayman Islands.
In the Cayman Islands there is not a ship terminal so we had to get on the emergency boats and be tendered to shore. The picture above is of the emergency boat being lowered off the ship. In the second picture our ship is on the right.
Approximately 6 months before we were in Cayman they were hit by Hurricane Floyd. It was a category 4 hurricane and Cayman is completely flat. There was damage everywhere you looked.
Snorkeling at coral gardens we saw so many beautiful fish. We even saw a nurse shark but I was not quick enough with the camera to get a photo.
Many years ago the local fishermen stopped in the area this area to clean their daily catch and discarded their unwanted fish parts overboard. Over time this attracted hordes of stingrays to the area. The stingrays would gather awaiting their free meal. Over the years these stingrays became accustomed to the humans that fed them and eventually someone got into the water with them. From then on it became a popular tourist attraction to go out and feed the stingrays!
Stingray City was unlike any other place I've ever visited. It is located in Grand Cayman's North Sound not far from the barrier reef.
We did not scuba dive with the stingrays but we still enjoyed playing with them and holding them. One of the tour guides held up the stingray to show us it's mouth...it made a vacuum sound when it was out of the water.
