Grand Cayman Island – Shore Visit From 2008 Cruise

This was a cruise we did back in 2008 so I may be a bit fuzzy on the details but at least I still have the photos!  We were on Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas doing a 7 day RT Miami cruise to Labadee, Grand Cayman, Ocho Rios & Cozumel.

I do recall we had booked a diving trip that was cancelled due to bad weather so we were on our own.  We ended up taking a bus to a wildlife park that was called Boatswain’s Bay  back in 2008 but is now called Cayman Turtle Farm Island Wildlife Encounter.  It seems to have the same attractions as it did back them but they seem to be pushing the turtles more now.  Of course I was keen to see Cayman Parrots!  We did walk through the whole park, including the turtle farm but but spent most of our time in the walk-in aviary with some very friendly birds!

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Back in the day, people were constantly telling me to go to hell…………………so I finally did!

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Since we were using local buses, we headed back a bit early so had time to walk around the port area, check out some shops and watch some guy who was hawking photos with his macaws.

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Display only, unfortunately this painting wasn’t for sale!

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