Sunday and snorkling at Smith’s Cove. Amazing fish swimming amoung the coral, it was like swimming around an aquarium. Fish everywhere, so many colours, some tiny some about a foot long. All amazingly relaxed about having people swimming around them.

Anyway there’s me exploring, merrily looking at the fish when I swam around a large reef and there sat in the water only a couple of meters away hover two baracuda. Each one about 4 feet long, sleek and predetory looking their teeth like glass needles. No doubting what they were or that they were dangerous. They looked at me. I looked at them and we all decided to go our seperate ways! Just a flick of their tails and they streaked off sleak and elegant! One blink and it was like they were never there.

Amazing but a little sobbering.

We have got our cars, Vic has got a Toyta Passo – it is like the Tardis and a really nice car to drive. I have a Nissan Note, both old cars but in really good condition and fine for pottering around the island.

Driving along getting to know the car when I glanced down at the temperature 76. Nice. I glance down a few seconds later 78, well it going to be a hot one. 81. Gosh really hotting up fast. As the temp crept up to 86 I started to think something was amiss, could it be the engine temp? 88,89,90,91 starting to get worried now, am I going to melt is the car going to over heat? 92, 93, 94. What’s going on?

Argh, then I realised it was the tripometer and it was the miles clicking away! I have no idea what the temperature was, but I was mildly pleased it was not 106*F…

The maximum speed on pretty much everywhere on Cayman is 40mph outside of town and 25mph in built up areas. The speed seems really slow but in the morning and on the way back from school it means I can really take in the ocean views along South Sound Road and as I get near town I can catch a glimpse of the pirate ship.

Er… I had to amend this to say mph, reading the road code ready for my driving test I found out the signs were in mph not kph as we had been told! So we can drive a bit quicker but driving here is still slower paced!