A relaxing day at the beach.
This was our first time to Grand Cayman.
As sometimes happens on cruises, the weather was not favorable for tendering into George Town. Fortunately, the port authority granted permission to tender in on the lee side of the island at Spots Bay. Because of the shoals in the bay, Holland America had to hire a local company to tender us in.
The three of us joined about thirty other guests for three hours at a section of Seven Mile Beach, which is really about 5.5 miles of beach. It is on a westward facing bay a few miles north of George Town, so we were able to see the several sets of showers approach, rain on us, and move on. The sea was too rough for John, but Janice and I went swimming several times. We also laid around on the loungers and strolled up and down the beach.
We were back on the ship for a late lunch. Then sat and talked with Janet and John, from British Columbia. We had shared a vehicle with them on the safari at Richard’s Bay, South Africa in ’09. They, like us, will be disembarking in Sydney, but they will spend a month or so in Australia and cruise back to Vancouver.
We dropped in on a free stretching class at the Spa before going to dinner. We have two new people at the table from Jackson, Florida, a retired submarine electrical and electronic engineer and a former training manager.
The evening’s entertainment was a ballroom dance trio who have performed in the traveling Dancing with the Stars show. Janice found the combo of two men and a woman awkward, and we both agreed it was a good but uninspiring performance.
We capped off the evening at the piano bar listening to a very good performer, Diane Fast.