JasonFarnsworth.com Photo Feed: Caribbean Cruise Album

The "Yeh Mon" store sign

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:25:11 -0600

The "Yeh Mon" store sign

Kerry and Jess at sunset

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:25:01 -0600

Kerry and Jess at sunset

Dunn's River Falls

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:24:52 -0600

Dunn's River Falls

Key West lighthouse

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:24:42 -0600

Key West lighthouse

Another towel animal - Swan

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:24:32 -0600

Another towel animal - Swan

What we read

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:24:23 -0600

What we read

The Sponge Man in Key West

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:24:14 -0600

The Sponge Man in Key West

Apparently they used to harvest a lot of sponges off the coast of Key West. This good looking guy was outside a sponge shop in the shopping area.

Cool clouds

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:24:04 -0600

Cool clouds

Grand Cayman

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:23:50 -0600

Grand Cayman

View of our cruiseship in Grand Cayman

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:23:36 -0600

View of our cruiseship in Grand Cayman

The water in Grand Cayman was too shallow for the ship to come all the way up to the port, so we had to tender in - take those smaller boats to and from the dock and the ship. It was a long line to wait to get on one of those boats to get back on the ship at the end of the day.

Just getting off the ship in Ocho Rios

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:23:27 -0600

Just getting off the ship in Ocho Rios

Big Black Dick

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:23:18 -0600

Big Black Dick

Big Black Dick was everywhere in Grand Cayman. It is believed that Big Black Dick was born of "Royal" African parentage before being kidnapped by French slavers who gave him the name of "Richard Le Noir". Unable to subdue his efforts to regain his freedom, his French captors tossed Richard overboard near a Caribbean island, which may have been Grand Cayman Island. Miraculously reaching land, he served for several years laboring in a sugar cane field where he learned the secrets of how to turn the sugar cane into the Caribbean's finest rum. Dick also learned to cultivate the tobacco plants and hand craft the richest flavored cigars. His kindly Caymanian master recognized his hard work and honestly rewarded him his freedom in the early 1700s. A free man and a skilled seaman, Dick tossed away his French name and became known as Big Black Dick. He soon earned the rank of captain of a three-masted-square rigger named "Caymanus". She was a ship carrying 20 cannons witha crew of nearly 200 men that were known as the best in the Caribbean. History tells us that "Big Black Dick" was a dashing and handsome figure of a man, wearing a bright purple velvet coat and four pistols in this red silk sash. Those who knew him most intimately, know how much of a man he, indeed, was .... possessing certain physical attributes unequaled by most 'all' other men of his gender. After a successful career, Big Black Dick retired to a more peaceful venture of making the best original pirate rum and the finest hand made cigars in the Caribbean.

Almost to the end of South Route 1

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:23:07 -0600

Almost to the end of South Route 1

Sunset

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:22:57 -0600

Sunset

Formal night

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:22:48 -0600

Formal night

This was the first formal night for dinner. We just brought church type clothes and I felt severly underdressed.