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John Watson
Our first port of call was Georgetown in Grand Cayman, where as normal we didn’t
take a ships tour. Hurricane Ivan had visited the island some 6 weeks before and
we were told that the recovery was well under way and that we wouldn’t see much
signs of the damage. We chose to walk to 7 Mile Beach and we saw lots of
devastation in trees blown down all over the place, lots and lots of houses and
hotels with most of the tiles blown off and even a roof lying on the ground
having been lifted off the building and laid on the grass. One building had one
of its walls blown out and the building was completely unstable. We met a
Canadian who was there as part of a team helping to refurbish the hotels along
the beach and he reckons it will take about 2 years for the island to get back
to its pre-Ivan state. It all makes the wind, rain, snow etc in Scotland seem
very minor.
The beach was really quite spectacular and after a few beers and a rest we made
our way back to the ship.
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