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After a day at sea-ocean, the first stop of our cruise was Grand Cayman.<br>This is a group of the Cayman Islands, a British overseas territory in the West Indies, in the Caribbean. The official name is the Cayman Islands.<br>The capital, George town, is located on Grand Cayman.

The area of ​​this territory is 264 km². The property includes the islands of Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac. Population - 62 348 people. (2018), mulattos, white and black.<br>Over 4/5 of the population lives on Grand Cayman.<br>It was to this large island that we sailed on the second day of our trip (or the third day of the cruise, whoever keeps the report).

<center><figure><img alt="Cruising in the Western Caribbean. Day 2. Grand Cayman. George town." src="https://img.travelfeed.io/lannabeiker%2F2022-11-21-01-11-906-417168_900-jpg" width="675" height="900" /><center><figcaption>Cruising in the Western Caribbean. Day 2. Grand Cayman. George town.</figcaption></center></figure></center>

On this day, for the first time, we learned that liners do not always and everywhere moor to the shore.<br>This, it turns out, is also indicated in our on-board weekly booklets.<br>From the shore there will be access to land, or there will be a transfer to the shore.<br>As I said, we learn many little things during our travels, from our own experience.<br>Passing for breakfast, we saw an empty morning deck. And also the fact that the weather that day in the morning was rainy.

<center><figure><img alt="Cruising in the Western Caribbean. Day 2. Grand Cayman. George town." src="https://img.travelfeed.io/lannabeiker%2F2022-11-21-01-11-904-417300_900-jpg" width="675" height="900" /><center><figcaption>Cruising in the Western Caribbean. Day 2. Grand Cayman. George town.</figcaption></center></figure></center>

We decided not to be upset about the rain and went to enjoy breakfast.<br>From the window of the breakfast restaurant, we could see the shore we were soon to land on, and quite a blue sky, with clouds but no rain.<br>I didn’t really want to eat in the morning, my husband and I are coffee lovers, usually at first two or three hours in the morning for 2-3 cups of coffee, and only then we have breakfast.<br>But here is a special case, you need to have breakfast, as we had a 4-5 hour day tour of the city of George town ahead of us.<br>That's why you don't see much on our breakfast plates. But there was another half: coffee and sweets, which I no longer photographed.<br>In this photo, I wanted to capture exactly the shore to which we will soon sail on a boat.

<center><figure><img alt="Cruising in the Western Caribbean. Day 2. Grand Cayman. George town." src="https://img.travelfeed.io/lannabeiker%2F2022-11-21-02-11-189-417700_900-jpg" width="900" height="675" /><center><figcaption>Cruising in the Western Caribbean. Day 2. Grand Cayman. George town.</figcaption></center></figure></center>

And here are our boats for transfer to the shore.

<center><figure><img alt="Cruising in the Western Caribbean. Day 2. Grand Cayman. George town." src="https://img.travelfeed.io/lannabeiker%2F2022-11-21-02-11-659-417949_900-jpg" width="900" height="900" /><center><figcaption>Cruising in the Western Caribbean. Day 2. Grand Cayman. George town.</figcaption></center></figure></center>

I was a little worried, on our first cruise we immediately went ashore to Nassau, and then we stopped about 1.5-2 km from the coast, and we had to sail ashore on such fast boats, and in the evening, of course, on somehow they had to swim back.<br>But everything turned out to be simple and fast.<br>At the exit from the liner to board the boats, there was a customs service with tablets that simply scanned our cruise card and released everyone to board the boat.<br>On our cruise to the Bahamas, we also showed our passports ashore.<br>And now you don’t need passports, only a cruise card, in which all the passenger’s data is already flashed, and scanning from a tablet takes literally 1-2 seconds.<br>The queue goes fast.<br>The boats are also large, two decks, roomy, there are 2 boats at once, only the loaded boats leave, the next ones immediately come up.<br>One boat is loaded for 10 minutes.<br>I mean, everything was well organized.<br>And hello Grand Cayman and George town!

George Town - the capital of the Cayman Islands, a British possession in the Caribbean and a port, is located on the island of Grand Cayman.<br>The city is the financial center of the Cayman Islands, it houses the offices of about 600 banking organizations.<br>There is also a cruise ship service center, a dock for cargo ships and several shopping centers. The city operates Owen Roberts International Airport.<br>Area - 29 km².<br>Population - 27,704 (2010).<br>Density - 955.31 people / km²<br>The official language is English.

With the tour, which we bought in advance on a separate website, not on the liner and not in the cruise company, everything was also very organized.<br>Even on the liner itself, everyone who had bought excursions was gathered in a large hall, distributed, who was going on which excursion, and stuck the name of the excursion.<br>And, when going ashore, we were already met by different guides, also distributing by the names of excursions.<br>We chose, as we always do with any new place, a sightseeing tour of the city.

It was still raining in the city. We were put on the bus, everything is also organized and without fuss.<br>And we went to the first place of our visit, to the rum farm.<br>It was not very convenient to shoot from the window of a moving bus, I did not see anything interesting in the surrounding landscape.<br>The town is clean, the administrative center is also neat.

<center><figure><img alt="Cruising in the Western Caribbean. Day 2. Grand Cayman. George town." src="https://img.travelfeed.io/lannabeiker%2F2022-11-21-02-11-676-418084_900-jpg" width="900" height="675" /><center><figcaption>Cruising in the Western Caribbean. Day 2. Grand Cayman. George town.</figcaption></center></figure></center>

We rode around the city for about 30-40 minutes, the guide told about the city itself various standard information, when, who, why and why.<br>And then we were taken to a local tourist attraction, a rum factory.

Of course, this is a pirate region in the past, islands where pirates of the Caribbean once found shelter, how could there not be a factory for the production of this wonderful drink on the island. 😊😜😁<br>This is TORTUGA RUM. Fairly well-known to rum lovers.

<center><figure><img alt="Cruising in the Western Caribbean. Day 2. Grand Cayman. George town." src="https://img.travelfeed.io/lannabeiker%2F2022-11-21-02-11-455-418406_900-jpg" width="900" height="694" /><center><figcaption>Cruising in the Western Caribbean. Day 2. Grand Cayman. George town.</figcaption></center></figure></center>

It is with a visit to the factory that I will begin my next story.

To be continued....

<b>All photos are from the author's archive.</b>

<br>Read the beginning of the cruise here:

<a href="https://travelfeed.io/@lannabeiker/western-caribbean-cruise-2018"><b>Western Caribbean Cruise 2018.</b></a><br><a href="https://travelfeed.io/@lannabeiker/cruise-ship-carnival-magic"><b>Cruise ship "Carnival Magic".</b></a><br><a href="https://travelfeed.io/@lannabeiker/wedding-anniversary-on-a-cruise-ship"><b>Wedding anniversary on a cruise ship.</b></a><br><a href="https://travelfeed.io/@lannabeiker/cruising-in-the-western-caribbean-day-1"><b>Cruising in the Western Caribbean. Day 1.</b></a><br>



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