The Star Princess is one of the FOUR cruise ships anchored for the port
of call today.

Because of the absence of cruise ship piers, and all passengers have to

be brought ashore on tenders, the expected duration for all passengers
on the Star Princess (2600 passengers) to get on shore will be 3 hours
(from noon to 3 pm), and the ship will leave port at 7 pm, leaving very

little time for scuba diving or even sightseeing on land.

I am in no hurry to get on shore because I've been to Grand Cayman
every year since 1990, and I have dived ALL of the best dive locations
in GCI that can be dived within the time at port scheduled by the
cruise
ship.

The most popular activity for Grand Cayman is to cavort with the little
pesty stingrays in Stingray City of course.  There is no worry about
the
time limit because the cruiseship provided tours, at exhorbitant
prices,
to snorkel with the stingrays in Stingray City.

It's actually a fun and novel activity for passengers who had never had
that experience, for which it had become the trademark of Grand
Cayman tourism.   It may even be fun the second or the third time.

Since I dived on the scuba-divers' cruise boat, called "liveaboards",
the Cayman Aggressor, that can accommodate 18 divers who live and
dive from the boat for a week, in Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, and
Cayman Brac, EVERY YEAR, and the Cayman Aggressor always
made its obligatory Stingray City dive, usually the last day of the
week, it means I've seen the stingrays there, and dived with them
underwater at least a dozen times.

In fact, on my last TWO Cayman Aggressor trips, I was so sick and
tired of that, by then very BORING, Stingray City dive that I remained
on the boat rather than getting in water and feed those stingrays
with squids.  :-)

For the same reason, I am spending an hour or so on the internet,
before having a light lunch and then get on shore for perhaps an hour
or so, just to see first hand what damages the recent hurricanes had
done to this city.

-- Bob.