Like I mentioned, the trip to the Caymans featured all kinds of wild life.  Literally.  When I say wild life I mean things that live in the wild that come near you.  Now these are things that us non-Caribbean dwellers usually see in museums or aquariums.  I fell in love with the iguanas because they were like the pigeons or Canadian geese you see here state side.  But the iguanas were at least beautiful, unlike the flying rats.

Wildlife, yes, wildlife.  Well, there were the iguanas and there were the stingrays.  Up until the sojourn to the Caymans, I thought stingrays were to be feared and certainly not touched.  After this trip, I realize that they feel like wet mushrooms when they go by you.  And they are not to be feared.

I got to meet the stingrays on a trip to a place called Stingray City.  Check it out:

Yeah, the sky scrapers are immense in that city.  Well, I guess I should do some kind of explaining about exactly where we were here.  This is amazingly in the middle of ocean.  I’m not on a boat when I was taking the photo.  I was in the water and it came up to my waist, probably if not lower.  It was a shallow area filled with white sand.

And if you stood in place long enough, this happened:

Along your legs, you would feel something akin to a slimy mushroom.  And these things were huge.  Really big.  Not big like sharks, but big enough were it could be scary, were they to get the wrong idea about you.  But hence the title of the entry.  You aren’t the world’s largest calamari, so when the sting ray realized that, and somehow they did, this happened:

Onto the next person.  The sting ray is so over you!