{"id":819,"date":"2008-12-29T19:41:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T00:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=819"},"modified":"2008-12-29T19:41:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T00:41:41","slug":"seven-mile-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"Seven mile walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had the opportunity today to do something I had wanted to do for a while. I doubt many locals actually do this : walk the whole 7-mile beach from one end to the other.<\/p>\n

This morning, along with Julie & my in-laws, we started just north of George Town, near Treasure Island condo’s where the beach starts all the way to West Bay public beach. We were armed with plenty of water and sunscreen lotion.<\/p>\n

Below is what we walked ; from the lower point to the one near the top.<\/p>\n

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Most of the beach is pristine sand, simply a gorgeous beach. Near West Bay it gets rocky sometimes.\u00a0 Its actually quite pretty if you ask me.\u00a0 Beware though, its slippery! My years of playing ice hockey came in handy on one particularly slippery bit.<\/p>\n

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I definitely liked this place and the “staircase to the beach”!<\/p>\n

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Reminders of Hurricane Ivan and its destructive forces.<\/p>\n

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The end! West Bay public beach. Very pretty place.<\/p>\n

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It took us 2h45 minutes from one end to the other walking a “medium” pace with two short stops for swims to cool off and to drink water. Very easy to get dehydrated in this climate.\u00a0 At a brisk pace and with plenty of water it could probably be done in +-2h, but what’s the rush … such a pretty beach.<\/p>\n

One final picture I took in West Bay … an orange Iguana. I had never seen anything like this one and quite frankly though it was fake\/plastic when I saw it at first.\u00a0 Somewhat camera shy, it only allowed me one picture and darted into the bushes.<\/p>\n

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I had the opportunity today to do something I had wanted to do for a while. I doubt many locals actually do this : walk the whole 7-mile beach from one end to the other. This morning, along with Julie & my in-laws, we started just north of George Town, near Treasure Island condo’s where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-cayman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}