Grand Cayman

Arrived at Grand Cayman early in the morning alongside the Sea Princess and Oceana.  The Cayman Islands were linked with Jamaica until 1962 when Jamaica became independent and they became a separate Crown Colony with the Queen as Head of State.  Grand Cayman is 500 miles south of Miami and 180 miles west of Cuba.  It is only 22 miles long and 8 miles wide.  Its speciality seems to be shops selling diamonds and jewellery to cruise ship passengers but as we didn’t want to buy anything we headed for Seven Mile Beach and were swimming in the warm sea by 9.00 am. It was great to be on a Caribbean beach again but too hot  to stay for more than a couple of hours.  After  a drink in the beach bar we headed back for a wander round the small town then made our way back on the ship’s tender and had our first (and absolutely delicious) ship’s hamburger for lunch.   We have started to play shuffleboard on deck  but will need quite a bit of practice before we enter any competitions,

We have another day at sea tomorrow then we dock at Cartagena, Colombia.