A First for Me!
Thursday, October 4th, 2007After Last night’s dinner, Greg came over to drop of his vehicle for us to use for the day today while he and his wife Christine are working. Here in Grand Cayman they follow British Driving rules, so that means driving on the left hand side of the road! YIKES!
Well I did it, and it was fun, but very backwards feeling! We started out at our resort and headed West past Seven Mile Beach and headed to a place called Hell! What is Hell you ask? Hell’s intriguing formation, which resembles the charred remains of a hell fire, is weathered from rock called ironshore. Common around the island, but in less dramatic form, ironshore has been estimated at 1.5 million years old. The formation, which looks like volcanic rock, is actually made up of very hard limestone, at one time snow white, now blackened by a surface coating of the algae which are secreting acid and eroding the rock into these unusual shapes. There is also a little post office and a couple of token t-shirt souvenir shops close by.
***Note for Mackenzie-*** Hi sweets! We stopped by this post office and sent you a little note from there. I’m sure we’ll be home before you get it, but be watching the post office! Here’s some shots of Hell!
Next we decided to drive clear across the island, here’s a shot of me driving out to the East End of the Island to the resort we were originally going to stay at, called Morritt’s Tortuga Resort. Even though the day was overcast it was beautiful and a place I would definitely consider staying at in the future.
Dinner tonight consisted of leftovers from last night’s Chicken & Rice dish. I’m so used to cooking for everyone that I made way too mich last night. Just as we were finishing up dinner we caught this outside, a beautiful Cayman sunset! We’re really hoping this means sun for tomorrow!
