As parents we can hope for nothing better for our children than to see them become happy confident individuals who meet the world on their own terms unafraid to rebel and to challenge stereotypes!
I could not be prouder as a parent that my intelligent, beautiful daughter is just such a spirit.
Prom tonight. Stunning and laughing at the world. Poppy and her best friend daring to be different and super cool!
Love you Poppy!
With her GCSEs finished Poppy and her friends met on the beach to celebrate and bid farewell to a few books.
Well what a weekend! We have spent every minute out in the fresh air and sunshine.
We left the house Saturday morning and headed up to Seven Mile Beach for the annual Flowers Sea Swim. An open water event in the turquoise waters along the western edge of Grand Cayman.
Conditions were perfect and while obviously not in the race (the Olympic swimmers and local swimming clubs have that sewn up) we did finish in very respectable times and both managed new personal bests!
Quick change in the car park and still salty we headed to Camana Bay and hopped on the taxi (a speed boat) to Kaibo with Ali and Eli for dinner upstairs. We sat outside on the balcony overlooking the beach.
Cocktails and an eight course tasting menu ensued and perhaps the nicest meal we have had here in Cayman. If you ever get the chance I highly recommend it!
Sated, salty and sleepy we headed back across the North Sound by boat. Wind in our hair we were treated to a beautiful starry sky.
Sunday morning and off to Coconut Joe’s for a Fathers Day breakfast.
Back home grabbed my dive bag and headed up to Latern Point to and Dive Tech to meet Toby so we could complete the practical part of our SDI Solo Diver Course.
Kitted out like astronauts with extra air tanks we completed a series of underwater drills and proficiency tests. The last of which we had to pause mid exercise.
We were hanging in mid water fifty feet down and about 10 meters from the mini wall. We had successfully switched to our alternate air supplies and were about to deploy surface marker buoys when an ancient loggerhead turtle swam past us.
Time stood still as this living relic of the age of the dinosaurs appeared and swam slowly past us only two or three meters away. A truly historic animal it’s massive shell covered in barnacles. We held our breaths a hovered motionless as it swam slowly past almost close enough to touch.
A once in a life time encounter with a truly stunning animal.
We surfaced on a high qualified as Solo Divers
Another quick change in a car park and off to Poppy’a annual artistic swimming show. An evening of glittering costumes, banging tunes and amazing talent.
Under an Endless Sky 