SixZebra’s Workouts

I can honestly say, its good to be home. Having spent the past 9 days in Cayman Brac, diving, caving and rock climbing, it’s still nice to be back.  Its a beautiful island.  Very little in the way of sandy beaches; more iron shore.  Wicked, sharp, jagged, death-is-a-step away iron shore.    Caves everywhere.  We did quite a bit of exploring and found caves where there were no footprints inside except ours. 

Some of the caves have been and still are used by islanders during hurricanes.  We went into one called Peter’s Cave that was probably the coolest cave we went into.  We were suprised to see it stocked with a few items.  We quickly got out our flashlights and took off.  I don’t know how deep it went because we kept finding little crannies that opened up into bigger rooms; on and on. 

Another interesting thing about the Brac.  Welll, first off, there’s something like 1200 residents.  There were days where we would be on a beach looking for more caves in the bluff and see no one.  Ok, either there’s something funny going on with the currents there or something.  On the beaches, hundreds, maybe thousands of shoes litter the shoreline.  All flip-flop style shoes.  I do not exaggerate when I say you could probably walk one particular stretch of beach (iron shore) for 1/2 mile and step on a flip-flop all the way.  We contemplated this over several beers one evening and decided they were killing the tourists and all that was left was their shoes. 

Night life.  Forget it.  We did find one little local bar in a place called Spot Bay.  We pulled up to get a beer but after surveying the area decided they’d probably had enough of tourists as their high season just ended.  So we left.  There were a couple other lively places, Edd’s place.  We drove past it numerous times; loud music thumping; and dominoes being the attraction.  We rented a house on the north shore in a place called the Bight but spent a lot of time at a Reef Diver’s Resort.  Not only because they run a great dive, Thanks to Chris and BJ!  But the food there is no less than phenomenal.  The absolute best bar food I’ve ever eaten!  They also served meals buffet style; for $12-25 you could eat like a king!    I don’t think I ate one disatisfying dish there.  And trust me, I tried it all!

We met a lot of great people.  Bruno and Sophie from France.  Steve from Florida.  Too many others to name.  Diving was spectacular.  Although we did not do as much as we had planned (tanqueray not good mmmkay), we still got some exceptional dives in.  We all agreed we loved the place, no droves of tourists, very well run dive boats, great food.  But we already decided we are going back to Honduras for the next trip.   Roatan here we come - again.

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