Thursday, October 1, 2009

Continuing on.....

Janee was really snuggling up to Robin!!
The last part of the show, Ricky told those on stage that they needed to find Brent, the cruise director, and rub his head and he would give them a pot of gold. Janee was the only one that tried to find Brent, he quickly disappeared after the show and we had to take Janee to Ricky so he could tell her to forget trying to find him - she finally realized all that happened while she was hypnotised. Tuesday we went into Grand Cayman. Everyone had to "tendered" to shore. We took a tour of the island stopping at a public beach of Seven Mile Shore, a sea turtle farm, a rum cake store for free samples, "Hell" and a butterfly farm. Three cruise ships in the port - our ship "Disney Magic" is the one with the double stack in the middle.

These turtles were about 5 years old.

They had turtles in different tanks by age and when they reach a certain age, they are released into the ocean.

One of the staff members came into the nursery while we were visiting there, they found this little guy in the sand in their hatchery. They thought he was about 5 days old.

This is "Hell" - a very rocky landscape. The story goes that some kind of "Royalty" came to the island to visit and mentioned that this place looked like hell and the islanders went with the idea and made into a visitor's site.

Beautiful flowers are everywhere on the island!!

Iguanas are plentiful on the island. Our tour bus driver stopped and let us take pictures of these guys along the road.

The butterfly farm is in an enclosed screen area and you can walk among the plants and see the butterflies. It started to rain after we got there - the guide told us about how they Fedex in the crystalists on a weekly manner so you can see the different types of butterflies (flutterbies - Katrina?!!). The butterflies live between 5 to 15 days and they don't lay their eggs because most butterflies lay their eggs only on certain plants, and the farm can't bring in those plant due to environmental reasons, so they ship they in to hatch there. You have to check your clothing over before exiting because the butterflies will sometimes land on you if you are wearing bright clothing.

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