{"id":129,"date":"2007-04-07T21:56:45","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T02:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2007-04-08T13:03:35","modified_gmt":"2007-04-08T18:03:35","slug":"a-great-week-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"A great week-end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week-end is a long week-end as in most of the world. My friend Michel (a former co-worker) is here for 9 days and is staying at our place. He is doing an advanced diving certification most of his time here.\u00a0 However, this week-end, his schedule was not as busy so we headed out to some local tourist activities.\u00a0 Friday we went by boat to Stingray City (no we were not stung ; there is absolutely no danger) and saturday we went to the Turtle farm which is now also a bird sanctuary &#038; a shark aquarium.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Here are the pictures of these two days.\u00a0 Two absolutely gorgeous days (needed lots of sunscreen lotion)<\/p>\n<p>On our way to stingray city<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image122\" title=\"2007_04_06-019.jpg\" alt=\"2007_04_06-019.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/2007_04_06-019.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here we are at stingray city.\u00a0 You can see the stingrays going to see the people &#038; to get fed calamari.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image121\" title=\"2007_04_06-008.jpg\" alt=\"2007_04_06-008.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/2007_04_06-008.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here Michel &#038; I hold a Stingray.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image128\" title=\"p4050041__edit.JPG\" alt=\"p4050041__edit.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/p4050041__edit.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now to the Turtle farm. In this picture,\u00a0I took a medium sized turtle in the petting area. We are allowed to pick them up &#038; play with them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image124\" title=\"2007_04_07-026.jpg\" alt=\"2007_04_07-026.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/2007_04_07-026.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here Julie feed\u00a0a Cayman Parrots.\u00a0 There birds are very pretty and were not very shy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image123\" title=\"2007_04_07-004.jpg\" height=\"320\" alt=\"2007_04_07-004.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/2007_04_07-004.jpg\" width=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also in the bird place, there were two strange looking birds ; a pair of &#8220;white Ibis&#8221;. They walk right up to you and start checking you out with their very long beaks ; toes, shorts, sandals, etc. Of course, it tickles terribly.\u00a0 Julie compared their &#8220;bites&#8221; to chinese chopsticks. These birds dont hurt you\u00a0and are not agressive at all. All three of us very much enjoyed our encounter with these friendly birds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image127\" title=\"img_2922.JPG\" alt=\"img_2922.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/img_2922.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Now to the shark tank.\u00a0 There are 6 reef sharks &#038; 1 nurse shark.\u00a0 By my estimates they are about 3 &#8211; 3.5ft long.\u00a0 You can go snorkeling in the pool next to theirs and see them thru a window while snorkeling ; very cool. Here is a picture of one of the larger reef sharks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image126\" title=\"img_2813.JPG\" height=\"393\" alt=\"img_2813.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/img_2813.JPG\" width=\"495\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once we left the turtle farm, we walked over to the ocean (the other side of the street) and looked at the waves crashing onto the the ironshore ; the sea was rough and the waves were quite impressive.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image125\" title=\"2007_04_07-053.jpg\" alt=\"2007_04_07-053.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/2007_04_07-053.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week-end is a long week-end as in most of the world. My friend Michel (a former co-worker) is here for 9 days and is staying at our place. 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