jeanNo2 8 years, 10 months ago.Before we left home, I kept saying that with all the airline problems, we would probably have a trip cancellation, which did happen on our connecting flight in Miami. As we left the house I decided that I didn’t have to carry the extra change of clothes in my carry on because we hadn’t lost luggage in quite a few years-my mistake!!!! None of the luggage from the cancelled flight was put on the new flight. But the really nice thing was that it was delivered all the way out to Kaibo the next morning. Can’t figure why the luggage didn’t make it onto the flight-they had several hours to figure it out-oh well!
Here is a picture of the very quiet beach at the Kaibo Yacht Club and a picture of the boats at the Kaibo dock
In the morning I love to walk from Kaibo up to Rum Point and along the way there are some very pretty flowering plants
There were a ton of butterflies along the way, but I was only able to capture this one
And this was a really nice century plant
I found this hermit crab walking near me as I was sitting on the beach.
There were 2 pelicans hanging out around Rum Point. I didn’t have a camera the day that they were sitting on the rocks, but here is a picture of one of them in flight. You don’t see pelicans too often in Cayman, so I am always excited the years that they are here.
I saw this little stingray off the Rum Point Pier
The police boat comes by the Kaibo dock periodically. 1200 HP (4motors-300hp each) guess they need the speed to catch the bad guys
This was a cool remote controlled boat that sounded like a jet ski. It could go up to 40 mph. I think this was more the dad’s toy than the boy’s toy.
Sitting out on the beach one day, some really pretty chairs appeared and I was excited to see a wedding performed right in front of our condo. There was a beautiful steel drum to accompany the music.
We had a really great snorkel off the Retreat. The water was very calm which does not happen that often and we were able to snorkel out pretty far and saw some really nice big coral heads and some things that almost looked like full bushy pine trees. My son who dives said that he had never seen anything like them—lots of fish, conch and a few lobsters.
One day I was walking the beach at Kaibo and I saw this trail in the water and realized it was a conch heading up to the beach. I was surprised to see it coming in to such a shallow place. Also saw several small jelly fish at the edge of the shore too.
It’s been a really nice trip so far. The weather the first week was cool and we had some rain, but luckily we are here long enough so that didn’t bother us too much.
If you come to this side of the island be sure to have the french fries at Kaibo. They are the absolute best…and they have great fried onion straws too—The mahi mahi sandwich is a favorite of mine. The men in the family love the curry grouper, but there was no grouper to be had. We’re waiting for a big catch.
Looking forward to another 2 weeks.
Shelly ?
