January 5-6, 2013
Tim, Jody, Eric, and I headed for the airport at midnight for our 2:30 a.m. flight. Our flight from Phoenix included a couple hour layover in Charlotte before our flight to Grand Cayman. At around 12:30 we arrived in Grand Cayman, picked up our rental car and headed to the condo at Turtle Nest Inn. We dropped our luggage off in the room and then went down the street and had lunch on the patio by the beach.
After our lunch we came back to the condo and got all our gear ready to go for our first dive. We loaded up the car and went down to Sunset House to do our first dive of the trip so Jody and Tim could see Amphitrite (the mermaid). We saw her and also the Nicholson before heading back for shore.
After we rinsed our gear off we decided to have a drink and some snacks at the bar before we headed back to the condo. We all got showered and then ran down to the grocery store to get some food for breakfast and dinner, etc. We were pretty tired after getting back from the store, but Eric stayed up to get the camera gear ready and I got busy making my famous peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. After traveling and diving, we were all ready to go to bed for sure. We decided we would sleep in the next morning.
I think I finally got up about 9 a.m. (of course I was the last one up and out of bed). We all had our breakfast and then loaded up the car and headed down the road to Turtle Reef by the turtle farm.
Jody predicted we would see a spotted eagle ray on our first dive and sure enough we saw a spotted eagle ray plus a bunch of tarpon hanging out sleeping and some lobsters. After our dive we rinsed all our gear and decided to hang out at the bar and have some snacks and decide what we wanted to do next. We ended up deciding to do another dive there, so got suited up and headed out. This time we headed in the other direction on the wall.
On our second dive we saw some large groupers, eels, triggerfish, filefish, angelfish, an octopus, a midnight blue parrotfish, and for the grand finale Jody spotted a tiny seahorse about 1-1/2 to 2 in. long. It was pretty amazing how well it blended in with its surroundings. Eric never did see it and did not believe that we saw a seahorse until he saw it on my video. After we got out of the water and told him about he even got back in the water to go see if he could find it again.
We were going to go back to Sunset House and do a third dive but decided it was getting too late, so we hung out at the bar and had some drinks before heading back to the condo for the night.
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