Grand Cayman Day 8

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Well, today was our final full day in Grand Cayman and we had an awesome day of diving with Adam and Brooke, our friends that we met at Ocean Frontiers. Adam and Brooke met us at Turtle Nest Inn at 9:30 a.m. and we all headed to Sunset House for our first dive.

For our first dive we headed out to the mermaid and then to the shipwreck. Thanks to Brooke we were able to get some really good photos of the two of us with the mermaid. As we started our dive we spotted a very colorful flounder and then later in the dive we saw a lion fish. We did run into our friendly gray angelfish again, but other than that it was just a very nice dive. After our dive the four of us had lunch at the bar at Sunset House and made plans for our next dive.

For our next dive we decided to head down to Turtle Reef. This is one of our favorite dive sites on Grand Cayman. We all geared up and headed out to the right on the wall. This is a very pretty mini-wall dive with lots of colorful corals and sponges and lots of interesting fish. We saw an eel, a Scorpionfish, a Spotted Drum, Queen Angelfish, Gray Angelfish, French Angelfish, Trunkfish, Pufferfish, Barracuda, plus too many other fish to name. The visibility was very good on this dive and it turned out to be a very nice last dive for us.

After our dive we joined Adam and Brooke at the bar and had a drink and a snack and some good conversation. We are very glad we met them and hopefully they will keep in touch. Unfortunately, we had to leave our table in the shade by the water to head back to the Inn to get our laundry done and all our gear repacked for the trip home tomorrow. All good things must come to an end, but now we can look forward to our next vacation to Belize in a couple months.

Keep checking the website in the next several weeks as we will be working on posting some of the 1000+ photos and video we have taken while here.