meet selection at the “Kirk” supermarketthe view from our mooring the walk to Georgetowna mural next to a parking areaancient ruins of Fort George, if they wouldn’t have placed so many info boards no one would realise those remains I thought that was hilarious presenting that as a sightto me the chicks (in the back) were much more interesting Elmslie Memorial United church, established 1846the building of the port authorities where we did the check inthe island had indeed funny information panelsHeroes Squareone of the regular arriving cruising ships clean, pretty and tidy townthe empty farmers market area, our reward of walking there 40 min was a nice fruit juicetwo of the big ones at the same timeGeorgetown harbouronly when cruise ships were there that market was open
North Sound
happy sailing to the North Soundthe water was beautiful behind the reef at Stingray City here already at Starfish pointearly in the morning we were still all alone at the anchorage Starfish beachstrolling along the shore line until Rum pointit was tidy everywhere even the starfish looked polishedain’t that pretty?my first starfish with 6 legsand a kind of jelly fisha private dock from a beach houseon our way back we walked along the only street in that area passing the houses from the street sidethe houses were barely inhabited it seemed but everything was in tip top shape here we were having our break with perfectly made croissants and delicious fruit juices the beach belonged to us in the eveningin Cayman there were chicken everywhere
Governors Creek
many small creeks provided enough space to built pretty houses right at the water frontso many shabby houses in that areagetting closer to 7 mile beachthat was the nicest part of the long beachthe volleyball fieldsthe hotels area of the beachand another pretty sunset
Carnival parade
us waiting since -it felt like hours- for the parade to arrive nothing was happeningafter such a long time waiting for the parade we got us some goodies in the oldest little grocery shop in town where we happened to wait just in front of – just couldn’t find the name anymoreand then the parade startedhalf dressed people shaking their buttsdifferent taste of costumes if I remember correctly that was a Batabano car; the name “Batabano” is a salute to Cayman’s turtling heritage – the word “Batabano ” is a Caymanian term meaning the tracks left in the sand by sea turtles as they crawl ashore to nest. Finding these tracks was – and still is – a reason to celebrate, thus Cayman Carnival Batabano!”here reaching Georgetown centreI thought that was clever and hilarious at the same time – slowly moving toilets the guys we met at Cayman and our friends John and Sandra in frontstreet food at Cayman where we had for the first time a turtle stewthe after parade show was in full action though we were on our way back to the boats
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