Note that in all of our photos the starfish is being held below water. We realized that the reason we didn’t see them the first trip is because it was early morning and the starfish were in the deeper parts of the water! Later in the day they creep closer to shore! If you visit, do not bring the starfish out of the water, the exposure to oxygen harms them. We hardly saw any starfish! Then when we went on our shore excursion we saw lots. The first time we drove there (it’s close to Kaibo Yacht Club and Rum Point). It’s a beach surrounded point of land which gets covered with starfish looking for sunlight. Starfish Point is just how it is described.
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At nighttime when it’s not a full moon you can take a tour to see and play with the glowing water. On the North side of Grand Cayman there is a bay that is home to bio-luminescent organisms. The sand is very soft and there are hardly any rocks! There are other beaches in Grand Cayman but they just don’t compare. I’ve been to a lot of Caribbean islands and it’s my second favorite beach (only to Long Baie in St. From the beach you can rent beach chairs and spend the entire day relaxing. It’s just a short taxi ride from the cruise ship pier to one of the public access points. This species of blue iguana is only found on Grand Cayman.Īn inexpensive stop in Grand Cayman is the beautiful Seven Mile Beach.
If you aren’t able to take the tour, you may still get lucky and see a blue iguana wandering the gardens. The cost of the tour was only $20 when we were there and every penny goes to the blue iguanas. Every day at 11 am, they have a tour of their Blue Iguana Sanctuary where they are working hard to save the Cayman Blue Iguanas from endangerment. If you are staying on the island, the Queen Elizabeth II Botanical Park is another nice stop. See the Blue Iguanas at the Botanical Gardens The store has an arrangement with the cruise ship and they bring all of your liquor back to the boat for you so that you can get it when you debark at the end of your cruise. We picked up a couple of multi-packs of rum flavors and rum cakes to bring back to our coworkers. On our “Best of Grand Cayman” excursion, the tour guide stopped at a Tortuga Rum Store where visitors could sample different flavors of rum and buy souvenirs. We didn’t actually see the factory, just one of their big stores. The Tortuga Rum Factory is based in Grand Cayman. The very best part was the tanks where visitors could actually hold young sea turtles.Ī post shared by Excursion Everywhere on at 5:43am PDT They do not draw a lot of attention to the fact that it’s a farm. From a tourist’s perspective, the farm is basically a large aquarium/zoo dedicated to sea turtles, but with a few other species as well. However, in addition to raising turtles, they also conduct a bunch of research and participate in the conservation of turtles. Yea, it sounds weird to me to and also a bit sad. Grand Cayman has a turtle FARM where they raise turtles and sell their meat. ? There are excursions that go here, or if you’re on the island with a car, it’s easy to visit by yourself. After a quick look at the formations, the fun thing to do here is to visit a gift shop and buy and send postcards to your family, postmarked from Hell. Hell is a field of short black limestone formations that look like they belong on another planet, not a Caribbean island. You can book through the cruise ship or make arrangements to be picked up at your hotel.Ī post shared by Excursion Everywhere on at 6:21pm PDT There are a lot of tours that will take you to Stingray City. Stingray City is a sandbar out in the middle where there are tons of stingrays. If you look at Grand Cayman, it is shaped like the letter “U”. – Adventures and Sightseeing in Grand Cayman: Stingray City