30/10/2026
When we got invited to visit The Cayman Islands, I thought… ok, beautiful beach, beautiful water, sun, sand, the usual. And it WAS all of that: bath-temperature water, the clearest I’ve ever seen, and food that surprised us every single day. We were blown away. But leading up to it, I had SO much guilt pulling Leo and Annie out of school for a week to go lay on a beach. Then we spent the week, and what I didn’t expect was how much they would learn on this trip! Here are some of the highlights…🌺🏝️⛵️🌊☀️⛱️
🍰Baking cassava heavy cake at Mission House National Trust Cayman Islands and learning why it’s their national dessert
🦎Meeting blue iguanas that live nowhere else on earth and seeing the huge variety of local plant species QE II Botanic Park
🐚Learning all about conch shells
🏠Standing in a house older than Canada at Pedro St James
💦Finding out why the stingrays gather where they gather Red Sail Sports, Grand Cayman
🪼Watching the kids swim in bioluminescent water that LIT UP around them… this was so cool Cayman Kayaks
None of that was on my list. All of it is what we’ll remember when we look back on this trip. We came for the beach. But we fell in love with the people… the culture… and the history. Turns out the best parts of this trip were the parts we didn’t plan for.
Where we stayed: Kimpton Seafire Resort + Spa hosted by Cayman Islands
Where we ate: Peppers Bar & Grill Paradise Pizza Agua Cayman Bàcaro Cayman Bonny Moon Beach Club Grape Tree Café Rum Point Club Ms. Piper’s Kitchen + Garden Thatch & Barrel Tillies Library by the Sea
