Today I had the experience of a lifetime, again.  We went swimming with the dolphins at Dolphin Discovery. The morning wasn’t too exciting. We all woke up and got ready, then we went over to 7 mile beach and took some pictures and video of the beach. It was sunny and very few clouds. It was a beautiful day at the beach. We then went to breakfast at Eats Café. After breakfast we headed up north to Hell. Hell is a place on Grand Cayman where limestone formations are coming out of the ground. It is the only place in the world that I know of that has a post office that you can send a postcard from Hell. After we were done in Hell, we headed over to the Dolphin Discovery. We were a little early so we looked around the gift shop and watched the dolphins swim. When it was finally our turn, we went to a room and watched the introductory video. This video explained the different behaviors we would be working with. After the video we went down and got fitted for lifejackets and we were off to play. We were the only 3 that were doing the “royal swim” so we had a lot of personal attention and one on one time with the dolphins. The first 2 we were with were 2 male dolphins. We did the kissing pose and we did another behavior where we grabbed the pectoral fins. We also got a lot of time holding and petting the dolphins. After we did this, we moved to the big tank and we did the dorsal fin pull with 2 dolphins and the foot push. After we finished this we were done and headed off to change. We then looked at our photos and the DVD and decided to get them.

After the Dolphin adventure we went across the street to the turtle farm. Our bracelets from Dolphin Discovery got us into the turtle farm for free. The first tank we looked in had the big turtles in it. They were huge! The biggest one was around 600lbs! The oldest one they have was around 55 years old. We moved on next to the small turtles. These were ones that you could actually pick up and hold. While I was doing this, I got bit by a turtle. It broke the skin a little and will leave a mark for a while. It hurt pretty bad at the time, but I survived. After the turtle farm, we headed back to the resort and relaxed a little. We then got ready for dinner.

We went to the Calypso Grill and met Michael & Nicole Eckstrom for dinner. We had pre-arranged this before we left the US. It was fun to get together with them and chat. It was a great meal and dessert. After dinner, we gave them a ride back to their resort, Cobalt Coast. We spent a while talking with them at their place. It was fun to share dive stories and just spend time talking to familiar faces in such a far away place. We said good night to them and headed back to our place. Now it’s off to bed to get ready for a new adventure tomorrow.