Stingray City with Moby Dick
Horace Plotkin

I was looking forward to this stop as we had planned to do something I’d never done before, ‘Swimming with the Stingrays’. We’ve been to Cayman Islands a couple of times before and taken land excursions so this time would be a little different.

After tendering in, we were offered what we wanted for US$40 each (Moby Dick) and within 5 minutes we were on an old school bus heading for another boat dock where we boarded the 'Eastern Skies' and headed out to sea. There were about 18 of us in total so it wasn’t too large a crowd and after 45 minutes or so we arrived at the sandbar, out by a reef. The water was crystal clear, not too cold and varied in depth from 3 to 5 feet. I don’t swim much but I was quite comfortable and the stingrays were amazing, they are so accustomed to people, we fed them, had our pictures taken with them, stroked their underside, fell over them and some even kissed them.

Back in the boat, we had 15 minutes ‘til we manoeuvred to the snorkeling area where we stayed for about half an hour. About 15 minutes into snorkeling time a little guy about 100 yards out indicated that he was having trouble staying above the water, I was very impressed with the reaction of the crew, within a few seconds of the call, the captain had dived in the water and was a quarter way out, he was passed by the other crew guy who reached the kid first, while this was happening, the other crew member on the boat was preparing additional lifesaving equipment for use, anyway they all got back on board and the kid was ok.

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