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Morning Walk on Seven Mile Beach. This Conch Shell is Occupied!
Grand Cayman Travelog #14
Westin, Grand Cayman - Thu, 18 May 2023, 9:45am
Our choice to get up early this morning wasn't just so we could enjoy a fantastic breakfast at the restaurant's 7am opening, it was so that we could enjoy a fantastic breakfast and then go walking on the beach and be back by 9:30.
Our hotel is on Grand Cayman's famed Seven Mile Beach. It's full of soft, almost white sand in both directions. Waves are very gentle, and the water is warm enough to walk right in. Seven Mile Beach is an amazing beach, likely one of the best in the world. One of our tour guides yesterday let us in on a little secret, though. It's not really seven miles long. 😱 It's not even close. Maybe it used to be 7 miles, but a hurricane several years ago tore away part of it. The guide says it's less than 4 miles long now. 😕
We decided to walk south from our hotel this morning, get as far as the (now truncated) end of the beach, and turn around back to the hotel. We'll walk north from our hotel another time, perhaps tomorrow morning.
Off in the distance we could see 3 cruise ships moored the port in George Town. "Uh-oh," we thought, "Stuff's going to be crowded later today when we go out." We were glad we were getting an early start on the day.
One thing that made this walk on the beach special was finding a conch. Well, we didn't find the conch; a family wading in the water found it. They were talking excitedly about it as we passed and shared their find with us. To date I've only ever seen a conch shell, a dried and empty shell. This conch shell still has the conch in it!
Westin, Grand Cayman - Thu, 18 May 2023, 9:45am
Our choice to get up early this morning wasn't just so we could enjoy a fantastic breakfast at the restaurant's 7am opening, it was so that we could enjoy a fantastic breakfast and then go walking on the beach and be back by 9:30.
Our hotel is on Grand Cayman's famed Seven Mile Beach. It's full of soft, almost white sand in both directions. Waves are very gentle, and the water is warm enough to walk right in. Seven Mile Beach is an amazing beach, likely one of the best in the world. One of our tour guides yesterday let us in on a little secret, though. It's not really seven miles long. 😱 It's not even close. Maybe it used to be 7 miles, but a hurricane several years ago tore away part of it. The guide says it's less than 4 miles long now. 😕
We decided to walk south from our hotel this morning, get as far as the (now truncated) end of the beach, and turn around back to the hotel. We'll walk north from our hotel another time, perhaps tomorrow morning.
Off in the distance we could see 3 cruise ships moored the port in George Town. "Uh-oh," we thought, "Stuff's going to be crowded later today when we go out." We were glad we were getting an early start on the day.
One thing that made this walk on the beach special was finding a conch. Well, we didn't find the conch; a family wading in the water found it. They were talking excitedly about it as we passed and shared their find with us. To date I've only ever seen a conch shell, a dried and empty shell. This conch shell still has the conch in it!