George Town vs George Town

Yesterday we went to George Town on the public bus.  It's $2 and first we had to make our way past the guanlet of the cruise ship shuttling zone where the usual public bus stop also sits.  We opted to walk a half a block further and flag down a public bus after finding out the public buses have a red or orange circle on the front.  They are just large vans just like the many shuttles and taxis transporting the hundreds and hundreds of cruise ship passengers.  The cruise ship shuttles were $5 each and dominated the scene.  To me George Town, Grand Cayman is another place ruined by the cruise ship industry.  How many jewelry stores does a small town need?  Did I really travel here to take my pick of HardRock, McDonald's, Subway, PizzaHut, Burger King or KFC?   I much preferred George Town in the Bahamas.  It was more like I was on a cruising sailboat visiting a local town.  It's a maximum example of large numbers of cruisers but the town is still much as it was before all the visitors on cruising sailboats and the lesser number of power yacht cruisers began arriving in large numbers.

The good news about our time in Town was we did find a spare impeller for the raw water pump of the boat engines cooling system.  We checked internet again at a coffee shop but nothing else about it was really of much interest IMHO

Some photos......

On this last photo while it is not crazy rough on the water this large restaurant seating area had all the tables pulled way back.  If you look close at the pier in the background you can see the waves rolling along higher than the top of the pier... This is used to drop off cruise ship passengers who are brought in by tenders from the ships which stay out a few hundred yards.  It was all taking place where we were moored the last 2 days but today the normal east wind has returned.