Poor stingrays. They have such an ominous-sounding name yet they're such gentle creatures. At least the ones in The Cayman Islands are. They glide along, gracefully flapping their wings. OK, there is a stinger, but it's not that lengthy tail you see. The stinger has its base near the tail, and it's just a few […]

I haven't been in Grand Cayman for too long, and I've already found the beach and learned several things about the island. OK, finding the beach wasn't too hard as I'm staying right on Seven Mile Beach (pictured above), which is where many of the hotels are located. And the rest of what I've learned […]

Is bigger always better? I’m talking about beaches here… When I arrived in Grenada, I was immediately smitten with Grand Anse Beach, which was right by my hotel. I’m hardly the first person to love Grand Anse — it’s widely regarded as the island’s best beach and one of the best beaches in the Caribbean. […]

There were certain things I was expecting on my trip to Grenada, such as beautiful beaches and spectacular sunsets. But I wasn't expecting to encounter monkeys. Perhaps I should have been because Grenada has rain forest and monkeys seem to like rain forests (as do I). Meeting my first Mona Monkey on Sunday at the […]

Well, Grenada is just as gorgeous as I had hoped, as you can see in the photo above of Grand Anse beach, which is right where I'm staying. Grand Anse is like a vacation advertisement come to life: two miles of white sand surrounding a sheltered cove. It has that calm, warm water that lure […]

I’m leaving for Grenanda tonight, and I can’t wait to see The Spice of the Caribbean. It earned its nickname for nutmeg production and, well, its location in the Caribbean Sea. I’ve been to Caribbean islands before but never to one this far south — Grenada is about 200 miles northeast of Venezuela. My last […]