Friday, April 03, 2009

Little Cayman

We all flew over to Little Cayman Island today - the roundtrip ticket cost what 5 gallons of milk cost on Cayman Brac. The trip took about 7 minutes as the two islands are separated by only 5 miles of water.
When we landed on this island, where there are only 160 full time residents, we went around the island (which is only 12 miles long and about 1 mile wide) and found a lot of iguanas. They like bananas so we gave them some - this iguana was almost four feet long, and he didn't even have his whole tail (due to combat with other iguanas).

One of the places that we snorkeled (couldn't dive here due to flying) was Point of Sand - there is a reef about a half mile off the south shore and it keeps the water warm inside the reef. There are a lot of interesting creatures in the bay, like octopus and conch. This picture is the "Jump Picture" that Allison always likes all of us to do. And if it looks like there are no people around, it's because there aren't - we were the only people on this 3 mile beach.


Our group picture before we went snorkeling.


This is Owen Island out in the middle of South Hole Sound. We snorkeled out to the island. The water was so warm that we didn't wear our wetsuits.

3 comments:

hillary nicole said...

sweet jumping form alana! And... art history is missing you... actually I am missing YOU in art history... :)

Helen Crump said...

Gotta love the jumping shots! Thanks for sharing your adventures.

Jeannie Crump said...

of course the jumping shots! so great! It looks like you all are having a fabulous time on the islands...send some sunshine up to the northeast please!