Cayman Islands (November 2015)

It’s that time of the week again! Throwback Thursday – when I finally get around to sharing photos from not-terribly-recent trips. This week, it’s my trip to the Cayman Islands, which took place in November of 2015. This was my first trip outside the USA since living in Japan as a toddler in the 1970’s. As of this writing, it was also my last trip outside the USA (due primarily to a Parkinson’s-induced panic attack at the Charlotte airport when I was trying to catch a flight to Germany in 2017, and COVID-related travel restrictions over the last couple years). But I undress. I mean, digress.

The Cayman Islands are a self-governing British Overseas Territory, located in the Caribbean Sea, roughly 1,100 miles straight south of my home in Charlotte. I spent all my time at “the big island”, formally known as Grand Cayman, where a close friend was getting married. Most of the wedding party stayed here:

Several of these fellers crashed the party

Look closely – there are at least two iguanas in this picture. Decent camouflage, eh?

It seems that someone hired a private investigator to secretly monitor my activity, using my own camera! Or maybe I just let my friend’s kid play with my camera. I don’t remember.

I did not lodge with the bulk of the wedding guests at the “castle” pictured above. Instead, I got a room at the Wyndham Reef Resort, on the northeast corner of the island. I found their rates to be quite reasonable for a beachfront resort hotel. The beach was well-groomed, and had plenty of lounge chairs and small palm trees shading those chairs, making it a great place to lie on the beach and read a book. I read a book of collected short stories by various authors. My favorite was “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. But I ingest. I mean, digress.