To Hell and Back, Cayman Islands Recap Part II

I’m still recapping my trip to Cayman, so just in case you missed part one, you can catch up here.

Sunday we woke up early and headed straight to HELL.

There’s a little place on the island called Hell with black gnarly looking rock formations and a crazy man in a devil costume running around inside the gift shop. It’s really just a spot to stop at, perhaps buy a few souvenirs, and then you can say you’ve been to hell. Needless to say, we didn’t hang out in hell very long. It was hot.

Plus, the devil guy was a little crazy, he kept telling Angie that she and I were neighbors to his ex-wife and he kept pointing it a West Virginia on a map. It was odd.

These were the rock formations deemed hell. Definitely not one of my favorite parts of the islands, but it was good to see. After seeing what there was to see at hell, we moved on to more beautiful places- the sea turtle farm.

The first stop = the breeding pond.

Two turtles were taking full use of said pond by uh, breeding… (that’s what they’re calling it these days.)

Next up, everyone’s favorite = babies!

The design of the babies shells were so intricate, it almost looked painted on.

Turtle out of water.

We also got to see a barracuda, behind glass, of course. I don’t know if you can tell from this picture, but his chompers looked like razor blades.

Huge iguanas were roaming around everywhere on the island. I’m not frightened by lizards. We, and by we I mean Isaac, have three lizards at home, but the size of these guys was a tad scary.

We stopped turtle watching to grab a bite to eat at the little restaurant and bar onsite. I ordered the grilled shrimp salad with mango lemon caper dressing. The salad was good, although I don’t love Olives, so I was a little disappointed with how abundant they were, but the dressing was fantastic. I’m positive fresh mangos were used to create it considering mangos are the most plentiful fruit in the Cayman Islands. Random fact: The islands harvest about 65,000 pounds of mangos every season (June-September) and there are 15 different varieties of the fruit.

It was so freaking hot that day, we were dying by the time we left the turtle farm. We arrived home and I decided to jump right into the pool. I’m totally a kid when it comes to swimming. I love the thrill of jumping in.

I was doing a cannon ball, duh!

And water slides are pretty much the best invention ever. Although, it doesn’t look like it, this slide was particularly fast. It made me scream.

Sunday night we were exhausted, plus we had a big day planned for Monday. It’s the best part, I promise you won’t want to miss it, so stay tuned for EBF does Cayman Islands Part III.

P.S. I promise to go back to regular blogging soon, but I hope you all are enjoying this recap (even though most of it is non food related).

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