Grand Cayman - Hell, Turtles and Stingrays

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Of all the excursions this one is a must see for anyone going to Grand Cayman!

Going to Hell

The tour starts with a tour of the island which takes you directly to HELL!!! For those of you who haven't be there it's actually quite a nice little place...they have a post office so you can keep in touch with your less deviant friends and family - not that we have any! On a serious note, Hell is a very small town on the island of Grand Cayman where they have a series of limestone deposits that have been eroded by the sea and rain. Now we can say we ave been to Hell and back!!!

Turtle, Turtle, Turtle

Although wild turtles are protected in Grand Cayman they do remain a food staple for the islanders. As you can imagine the Grand Cayman equivalent of our beef farms are turtle farms!!! Fortunately these farms also double as educational interpretive centers and are actually quite nicely done.

Stingray City

What a weird feeling to look into the crystal blue waters and see huge black images swimming around...and then to be told that, "you can now enter the water!" We took a boat ride 25 minutes into the Ocean, to find a sandbar where the water is only waist deep. An important feature because you MUST keep your feet planted in the sand at all times or risk stepping on a stingray - thus recreating a bad scene from Animal Planet! Once in the water, the stingrays know why you're there...to feed them! We're given many pieces of squid to hold in your hand (thumb down) and place in the water, as the rays swim over your hand and suck up the food - wicked. Your guide then shows you how to properly hold a ray and they swim right on top of you. Or when you're not expecting it, swim up behind you and dry hump your back! Very powerful and fluid creatures and an experience we'll remember forever!