One of our days on Grand Cayman, we decided to walk along the 7 mile beach to snorkel at two spots we had read about in the guide books. We reached one point, snorkeled, but found absolutely nothing interesting there, so we continued on. It started to be really really warm now and it was almost lunchtime, so our energy ran out of us. We stopped at a kinda crowded part to eat lunch at a restaurant. All of a sudden there were bus after bus with tourists from the big Caribbean boats that came in to the island earlier in the morning. The whole reason for why we decided to walk and explore the beach this day was to avoid all the boat people, but I guess they get pushed in to buses to visit different places on the island.
We made a new decision at lunch, that we instead of walking for another half hour to an hour to the next snorkel spot, we could pay the guys by the beach to take us on a banana boat out to a much cooler place, which we would have not been able to swim out to on our own, at least not make it back without being extremely tired.
A nice guy and a younger girl drove their water scooter with us hanging on to a banana boat out to Kittiwake. We kept our life vests on which was kinda nice, then you could just float around and explore without thinking about if you gonna get tired and sink, haha. They gave us fins to use and this was my very first time to ever use fins. I didn’t like it at all. I love my feet to be free, but its good to try, because there might be times when using fins actually might be really helpful and then it would be good to know how to use them.
Kittiwake was really cool to see! “Sitting at a depth of 62ft in clear Caribbean waters, the ex-USS Kittiwake is a former submarine rescue vessel that served in the US Navy from 1945 to 1994”. I’m glad we made the decision to go out there to see it. To snorkel is a new thing for me and now I got to see a shipwreck along with some cool fish.
