Cruise Report 3
I really thought it would be scarier. Our parasailing excursion was a lot of fun, but actually fell into the "pleasant" more than the "exhilarating" category, which was a surprise. I mean, we were 300 feet in the air, flying like a giant kite at the end of a rope attached to a speedboat. On paper, it sounds shriek-inducing. In reality, it's a very smooth ride and you just don't get the feeling that you're high in the air attached to nothing but a giant yellow nylon smiley-face (even though you are), and even when our boat stopped to let us splash into the sea, the descent was gradual and the water was a lovely 80-something degrees.
The only downside to the whole experience was the fact that I should have taken my shorts off and done the whole thing in my swimsuit. Nothing dries in that climate, so the walking around we did in Grand Cayman after the parasailing was a bit clammy.
While we were on the parasailing boat, we ran across an entire school of flying fish, which were amazing to see up close. I had always thought they used the bow wave of a boat or ship to take off with, but we saw some that were distant enough from us that we couldn't have been helping them. Nobody got a picture of them, though - we were too busy pointing and shrieking.
And another useful tidbit about Grand Cayman - the water at the pier is clear enough to see bright blue tropical fish without any of that bother with mask and snorkel - just lean over and have a look. They don't photograph all that well that way, though.
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