MORE NEWS FROM CAYMAN: The water, by the way, was cooler than usual — a temperature of 80-82 degrees, where usually this time of year it would be more like 84. I was actually kinda cold at times, and couldn’t figure out why, until Nat Robb’s lovely Finnish assistant Aria pointed out that my wetsuit was kind of hanging on me, and thus not insulating very well. (She’s from Finland, but is very into warm wetsuits — “I hate to be cold,” she says. “Why do you think I left Finland for the tropics?”) Time to go down a size, I guess. I was actually more comfortable in a 1 mil “tropical” wetsuit that fit than a 3/2 that didn’t. And apparently global warming isn’t striking Cayman.

There’s an awful lot of development on Cayman, and I’m not crazy about it. I want the Caymanians to make a good living, but the amount of new construction is freakishly huge. There was a real inflection point after Hurricane Ivan, when lots of small, old buildings were washed away, and the government was desperate for capital infusions and allowed them to be replaced with much bigger new buildings. I guess if it gets too busy for me, I can always head over to the Brac.