Wow a stingray!

We went swimming with stingrays in Grand Cayman. We were told not to touch them here or there and to look out for this, that and the other, the list went on and on! I couldn't keep the warnings straight so I decided I didn't want them near me, especially under me. When they'd swim towards me I'd swim away.

Apparently the stingrays we saw were wild but sort of like pigeons or grackles in that they knew people meant free food so they'd come around and didn't seem aggressive (not aggressive by nature we were told). There were supposedly 50 of them and five times as many people in the water. They were 4x4 to 5x5 in size and would float and swim all around you, sort of hard to keep track of where they all were.

Between the sneaky stingrays, the boats coming in with loads of tourists and the choppy waters that day, I decided I didn't have a good enough handle on my bearings and got out. I am sure they mentioned the barb but I don't recall that warning specifically, just that there were too many to remember, I was on vacation afterall.

Awwwwwwwww, I really liked Steve Irwin. Poor guy, why him and not Cheney.