Grand Cayman Day 4

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Today was a wonderful day. Eric was feeling much better today. We slept in a little and then got up and had breakfast and decided what we wanted to do today. We eventually decided we would try diving at Sunset House. We had never dove there before, so we thought we would give it a try. Our first dive was fabulous. We had the best dive of the trip so far. We headed straight out and found the wreck that lies in about 65 feet of water. The visibility was fantastic and we saw three turtles, a couple barracudas, a sting ray, and we came across a large grouper at a cleaning station being cleaned. I got lots of good video footage and Eric got some really good photos also.

After our first dive we decided to have lunch at Sunset House. The food was very good and fairly reasonably priced (for Grand Cayman standards). After our lunch we checked out the dessert menu and decided we would do a second dive and then come back for dessert.

We headed back out on our second dive and decided we were going to try to find the mermaid statue that was placed in front of Sunset House in about 60 feet of water. Unfortunately, we never did find her. However, in the process of looking for her, we both heard a strange noise in the water that we could not quite pinpoint. About that time we both looked over to find the Atlantis submarine passing us on our left-hand side. We turned and gave those inside a wave and then went on about our dive. The visibility was not quite as good on this dive and we really did not come across anything too interesting, but it was still a good dive.

After our second dive we headed back to the bar to have our dessert. We ordered a decadent slice of chocolate cake and some chocolate ice cream. Hey, we are on vacation so we are allowed to splurge!!! Boy was it good.

After our dessert we packed up all our gear and headed back to the Inn. We stopped in to change out the batteries in Eric's camera and check out the video and photos we had captured earlier in the day. Then we packed up the gear again and headed down to the east end for our night dive we had scheduled with Ocean Frontiers. We got there at about 6:15 and boarded the boat. About 6:30 or so we headed out to the dive site at Sunset Reef. The dive site was only about 25 feet at the deepest but had lots of coral heads with tons of anemones. We had a really nice dive. We saw several lobsters, a slipper lobster, a couple of eels, a small ray, and some brittle stars. I think this was our best night dive ever.

After we got back on the boat the crew had hot chocolate and homemade blueberry muffins waiting for us. We enjoyed the dive so much I think we are going to see if we can schedule another night dive for Thursday night as Ocean Frontiers only offers night dives on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Tomorrow we head back to the east end to do a three tank safari with Ocean Frontiers which also makes a stop at Sting Ray City. So that should be fun.