Royal Caribbean Grandeur of the Seas Repositioning Cruise - Grand Cayman Journal and Photos - November 29, 2006

Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas

Caribbean Repositioning Cruise

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I was up early and watched a little television when dad called at 8:45 AM saying he was ready with mom.  I thought they weren’t even going to wake up until 9:00 AM.  I went to their room and sent them up to the Windjammer Café for breakfast while I wentGrand Cayman Disembarking Photo to Deck 6 and the Singing In The Rain Lounge to get tender tickets for Grand Cayman.  I went to meet them afterwards and started getting my breakfast and they were still looking for a table.  A couple switched from a table for four to an open table for two and we took their original table. 

They were on tender 6 when we started breakfast and we had a tender 12 ticket.  Of course I found out later it didn’t really matter because no one ever check our tender tickets.  I took some photos of the other ships in port including the Freedom and Navigator of the Seas, Carnival Triumph and it looked like the Celebrity Constellation Freedom of the Seas Anchored At Grand Caymanbut I couldn’t be sure.  I heard them call up to tender 8 and never heard another tender call over the PA system until our tender 12.  I was as far away from the tender as possible so I hurried down to get mom and dad.

When we got down to the tenders they had a couple of deck hands help with mom and her wheelchair.  They asked if she could walk at all and told them with some help but we ended up blowing off letting her attempt any walking.  I grabbed the back end of the wheelchair and they each grabbed the front end and we carried her down the stairs to the tender.  She looked like Cleopatra being carried through the crowds of Cairo.

The tender got us to downtown Georgetown, Grand Cayman fairly quickly.  We hooked up with the first taxi driver who we ended up blowing off as soon as we got to her taxi.  The taxi’s all try to get 9 people in them and she thought we could get mom into the 3^{rdOur Taxi Tour Driver Veroneda With Mom And Dad} row of this minivan.  I also didn’t like her attitude.  We walked back to near where the tender left us and saw Clyde and Debbie who were with a lady getting ready for the same tour.  They had signed up for a ship tour but when they got to shore the tour had left 30 minutes early. 

This ended up working out great.  The minivan was much nicer and larger and our taxi driver was really nice.  I was up front talking to Veroneda and she was really funny.  She told me she was worried about us and the weight in the van but it was actually riding much smoother than usual.  She was also really nice to mom.  Mom wanted a picture with her that we took at our first stop Seven Mile Beach.  She had driven past the Governor’s House and the second oldest house on the island before Seven Mile Beach.

Our next stop was at Hell.  Hell is at the end of Seven Mile Beach and literally looks like what you would think Hell would look like.  It’s jagged black phyytokarst.  Translated that is limestone and dolomite that has undergone extreme erosion due to activities of small tropical organisms. Needless to say, I got that from the Hell flyer not from my sterling memory.  The way the area got it’s name was in the 1930’s a Commissioner from England, Commissioner Cardinal while visiting the West Bay area shot at a bird amongst the large pointy black rocks.  He missed and said, “Oh Hell!!!â€