Turtles here, turtles there. Turtles Everywhere!

Live from Carnival’s Freedom.
Day 3 in Grand Cayman
Today we rose to the noise of shore tender boats just below our cabin at about 6:45 this coincided with delivery of our two pots of coffee and Danish. After a quick cup of coffee and a shower we were off to breakfast in the Posh dinning room. Instead of a table for two today we were seated at a table for 10. We introduced ourselves to all and asked where our tablemates were from. Most were from the same traveling group and were from Kansas City. One other couple was from Davenport Florida, a neighboring community from Di and myself.

After breakfast we met Di’s co-worker Todd and his wife Jennifer at the Victoriana Lounge to obtain our tender tickets so we could go ashore. The trip ashore took about 10 minutes. As we powered away from the Freedom we noticed that there were a total of 5 cruise ships in port.

Once on shore we found a taxi to drive us to Boatswain’s adventure park which is the old turtle farm expanded to a bigger park. We Started out viewing 500 lb turtles in a tank and then walked around and saw the Predators reef and viewed sharks from above and then moved to view the sharks and lots of other fish through glass. The rest of the park included a swimming lagoon. We also were able to pick up and hold several turtles of varying sizes. We have more than enough photos of turtles to last us a lifetime.
If you visit Grand Cayman this is a must see site.

On our way to Boatswain’s we stopped in ‘Hell’; this is actually old coral that is no longer under water. A British officer in the 1800’s said that looks like Hell and the name stuck.

We called a taxi for the ride back to George Town and passed along the famous 7-mile long beach. Once arriving back in George Town we parted ways with Todd and Jennifer to go shopping on our own. We spent some time in different stores looking for Christmas presents but did not find what we were looking for. We did find the Harley Store so Tim could add a Harley shirt from Grand Cayman to his collection.

We walked back towards the pier and decided to have lunch in Senior Frogs. Lunch was a huge platter of Nachos and cheese with chicken and beef with a nice cold bottle of local beer for Tim. We got back to the tenders just in time to board one of the last ones heading back to the Freedom.

Now, are you ready to have your mouth water? As promised we will tell you about dinner from last night. We arrived in the Sun King supper club early but were seated right away. We were presented with the meat selections for the evening, which included prime rib, filet, Lamb and lobster. We chose the filet and lobster combo with the steak well done for Di and medium for Tim. We didn’t know what the appetizers were, but they were tasty! And of course we needed to get in our veggies, which was in the form of a very good salad. When the main course arrived we were very surprised at the tenderness of the meat and how sweet the lobster was. If you know Tim then you know he can eat a lot. And he could not finish the steak. For dessert Tim had a cheesecake and Di had an apple chocolate torte, both of which were ok.

We were quite satisfied with our dinner in the Sun King supper club. We’ve heard that tonight’s dinner is a Turkey dinner. Tomorrow we will be spending the day in Ocho Rio’s, Jamaica. Yeah ‘Mon!