So at the begining of August 27 of us arrived from around the world to join the Cayman education system, we ranged from literacy coaches to teachers, principals, vice-principal, ed psycologists and speach and language therapist. We are English, Irish, Scotish, Welsh, American and Canadian to name a few and represent about 500 hundred years teaching experience between us! An eclectic bunch but we make up the class of 2016 the ‘Castaways’.
Paul (centre) arranged for us to get together to head out to Stingray City for the day. With no cruise ships in today we pretty much had the boat and Stingray City to ourselves.
Stingray City is a sandbank out in the middle of North Sound where the water is only waist deep and boats bring groups out to meet wild stingrays and feed them. It is utterly amazing.
Local custom has that of you kiss a stingray you get seven years good luck. So today we swam with wild stingrays, we hand fed them, we held them and gave them a kiss!
From the boat we saw wild sea turtles and jelly-fish. The turtles where huge.
We snorkelled out on the reef in the middle of the sound and dived off the top of the boat into the crystal clear sea. James and Poppy both jumped off the top of the boat. James thought it was brilliant and soon had the boat captain’s 4 year old and 6 year old boys jumping with him as they thought it looked kinda cool!
The little boys told me they go out for the day with their dad every other Saturday to ‘help out’! They were having a scream, when I let them into the secret we were all teachers and their dad used to go to Paul’s school they thought that was hilarious. Not a bad way to spend every other weekend running about on a big speed boat and swimming.
So what’s next on the Castaways’ itinerary? Well Cissy is going to organise a beach ride, real sea horses or at least sea and horses or riding horses into the sea.
And I am going to organise a bus to collect each of us and drive us up to rum point for a b-b-q at Starfish point and Mudslides…
We also plan to do night fishing, to canoe in the bio-luminous sea and to swim with dolphins and wild turtles. Diving lessons are being planned…
Under an Endless Sky 
In my opinion the only way to see stingray city is with George’s Watersports https://georgeswatersports.ky/stingray-city-grand-cayman/
My husband and I went on vacation last month and went with them. Really small group and was really fun.
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Oh that looks lovely I will check them out, thank you.
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