Our third stop was Georgetown, Grand Cayman. This is where we were going to swim with stingrays. The water in the Grand Cayman is the most BEAUTIFUL water I had ever seen. The water was as clear as drinking water with a light turquoise color to it. We took a boat out to the middle of the ocean. The funny thing was it was only like 3 feet deep in the middle of the ocean!! There is a huge sandbar. As soon as we got to Sting Ray City a TON of sting rays appeared. It was awesome!!! We got to swim with them, pet them and even kiss them!!! It was the coolest thing!!! Afterwards we went snorkeling along a reef right by the stingrays. The snorkeling was pretty cool. We were told to stay away from the edge of the reef because it drops to 6000 feet over the edge!! Of course, I was curios and "accidentally" wandered over to check it out but kind of got in trouble and had to come back!!
After that we headed back to the shops and did some shopping and had some fish and chips at a cool restaurant right along the water. All of the restaurants along the water had ladders that went straight down to the water so you could snorkel and then climb up and get a bite to eat!! It was pretty cool!!
Our final stop was to Cozumel, Mexico. This is the stop I had been waiting for our whole trip. This is where I would get to fulfill a long lifetime dream of SWIMMING WITH DOLPHINS!!!! It was AMAZING!! I don't have any pictures of us actually swimming with the Dolphins because I still haven't developed the pictures from our underwater camera. We swam in an enclosed area in the ocean. We had about 10 people in our group and we took turns doing about 10 different things with the dolphins. We got to lay on a boogie board while the dolphin pushed our feet, we held onto the fins of the dolphin while it swam on it's back and took us for a ride, got a kiss from it, hugged it, held it, danced with it and a bunch more. It was absolutely amazing!!! Right as we got out of the water it started to poor rain!!! It felt awesome because it was like 100 degrees with humidity. We timed our swimming with the dolphins perfectly. The groups behind us had to do their swim in the pooring rain which didn't look too fun!!!
After we swam with the dolphins we went and had some lunch. The place where we swam with the dolphins was in this huge park. It was amazing and absolutely gorgeous. There was a ton we could do there. You could swim in a regular pool, a salt water pool or go in a spa. There was even a bar in the pool!! They also had AMAZING snorkling!! The was soooo clear!! I had the best time even though I snorkled by myself. Joe stayed with our stuff to make sure no one stole it!! There were tons of fish with all sizes and colors. The water was so clear that when Joe took pictures of me you could actually see the fish in the pictures. Afterwards we headed back to the port area and did some shopping for our neices and nephews. We then boarded the ship for our last time until we would be back in the USA :(
I promise not to wait this long to update the final days on the cruise and our few days at Disney World!!!!
4 comments:
i hate how blogger puts the pics in backwards! so annoying!!!! anyway. great pics. you are brave to get in there with the stingrays! i am scared of the ocean!
the photo you took of the side of the cruise ship at sunset is beautiful!! and I want to swim with dolphins SO badly!
I wish I could swim with rays and dolphins! I'm so glad you guys had a great time!!
yay! we've waited so long for this post! It looks like so much fun! you guys seriously did such fun things!
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