Thursday, February 28, 2008

Cayman Islands

So I took a much needed vacation to the Cayman Islands with my dad to go SCUBA diving. It was pretty much glorious. Sunny and 85 every day, the water was 80 degrees, the diving was amazing. We stayed at a hotel where you can basically just walk off the back porch onto a coral reef so we went on two boat dives in the morning and then in the afternoon grabbed our dive gear and walked into the ocean. Here is a pic of the hotel.


The water was a beautiful turqoise blue and we saw so much cool wildlife - adult and juvenile hawksbill turtles, HUGE lobsters, a massive green moray eel, hundreds of different fish. I'm getting my underwater camera pictures developed today and will post some of them. All in all the trip was really fun, really relaxing, and I've come home with a little bit of color - no longer am I the pale ghost I was before!



I also had a blast with my dad. Thanks Dad! AND....I even found my underwater treasure!!!!



4 comments:

Katy said...

are you allowed to take your air tank with you on the plane or do you have to buy an air tank everywhere you go? do you take your own scuba gear? how does this work?

jensinkler said...

I'm glad your trip was fun! And that you weren't eaten by a shark.

Can you explain what your treasures are? They look quite ... valuable.

Anonymous said...

yay! that looks beautiful!

your "pottery" looks like a fossilized shoe print...what is it?

Kimberly Magrini said...

the coin was a silver dubloon i found embedded in the reef. i'm sure it was from a spanish galleon that sunk in 1794. the other thing is a piece of ancient greek pottery mysteriously on the same ship the silver dubloons were on.