Had a marvelous time on Friday in the Grand Caymans playing with the surprisingly friendly local stingray population:
You can read the full details, as well as see many more photos, on my wife’s travel blog.
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I’m glad you didn’t end up like Steve Irwin.
Thank you very much for showing “stingray alley”…years ago when I began to take my three young daughters scuba diving – we “did” the alley on a trip to the Caymans…back then the sandy plateau was approx. 5′ deep- a snorkle -never a need for tanks…but, rumour had it that a few yrs ago a hurricane removed up to 10′ of bottom and relocated said sand onto 7 mile beach- very narrow and now , purported to be at least 20 yds. wide?? NO?? That did not happen??Your pix show the water depth to be what it was yrs ago. Or, has the “alley” become deeper in some spots and shallow in an area now used for this wonderful experience? To your first commentator Steve denBeste, I would say after yrs and yrs of diving with pelagic animals…what killed Steve Irwin was hubris. He spooked the ray and pls. note that he could NOT have been killed-even by accident- if he had NOT been climbing up the ray’s dorsal/tail nexus- the “blade” resembles a modern day bayonet,approx. 7″ length(akin to a Marine K-Bar) wickedly effective defense for the ray but, unlike us , rays do not wave their weapons about, gratuitously.Ed,thanks again-you revived sweet memories.