Day 4 - Stingrays & Starfish

Today we chartered a small boat for the morning with another family from Toronto. You met Maya (2) and Andrew (6) in the pool and I met their parents, Cinzia and Paul, and asked if they wanted to join us to check out Stingray City.

We arrived at the Cayman Island Yacht Club at 8:45AM to board the Zodiac with Nicholas, our captain and tour guide. First, we had to drive to Stingray City which is in the center of the North Sound. Nicholas was driving as fast as he could so that no one got sea-sick.
Stingray City is located in a shallow sandbar and there were dozens of stingrays waiting for us. Daddy took you into the shallow waters to pet the stingrays, but I think you were a bit freaked out to see the stingrays up close.
Instead you preferred to be held above water by Mommy and Daddy the entire time we were in Stingray City.
Daddy took some videos of us playing with the stingrays - the stingrays rubbed up against us to say hello (similar to how a cat or dog rubs against someone to say hello). These stingrays were super-friendly and were used to being around humans - in fact, they expected to be fed so they LOVE when people visit them and feed them fish.

Next stop was snorkeling on a small coral reef - there were more stingrays, some Dory's (the blue/yellow fish from Finding Nemo) and other fish around the coral. The water was quite rough so you did not last long in the water; instead you hung out on the boat with Cinzia and Maya. Since Daddy and I are both certified scuba divers, we were not so impressed by the snorkeling.

Our guide Nicholas took us for some sightseeing on the boat to check out Rum Point and some of the nice houses along the beach. Our next stop was Starfish Beach - while we walked around the shallow waters, Nicholas went snorkeling to catch a few starfish and other sealife.
Mommy was being silly by making a bikini top using the starfish - Daddy was not amused.
Here you are checking out the suction cups on the bottom of the starfish which is how the starfish can move around.
Here is another cute photo of Maya, Andrew and you playing with the starfish.
Nicholas went hunting for more sealife - he came back with a sea urchin. Later he collected some seashells and gave them to Maya, Andrew and you to start your own collections.
It was quite hot so Daddy was cooling off by laying down in the shallow water.
On the way back to the Yacht Club, both Maya and you passed out.
Right before we reached the docks, Nicholas noticed a very large iguana hanging out in the mangrove. Check it out!