Visiting Georgetown, Grand Cayman Island/Carlos Pueblo

Visiting Georgetown, Grand Cayman Island/Carlos Pueblo

The cruise ship routed through the straight between Cuba and Hatti from Miami

, Florida to Ocho Rios, Jamaica, then turned northwest to Georgetown, Grand

Cayman Island, and southeastward toward the Netherlandish Antilles, Aruba,

Curacao, and Bonaire. Now I am very clear of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico

, and the great Atlantic Ocean. Columbus discovered America in 1492, the Spaniard

dominated this new world for quite some time even reached to Texas and Colorado

and beyond. Spanish ships moved all goods from the new world back to Spain through

Caribbean and caught eyes of the other European individual maritime powers in form

of piracy to rob the Spaniard cargo ships. I learned this from Professor Jim Drummond

on my Sun’s route to South America. Then a Queen of England, Elizabeth I, gathered

these pirates to be her navy and defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588. After the European

Industrial Revolution, steam combustion engine power ship came to competition on the sea.

Caribbean became a battleground and other European power nations gradually took over

the old Spanish colony and the U.S. joined the final push to end the Spanish Empire in 1898.

During this period, 1588-1837 roughly, the European moved African native to the Caribbean

to  have the famous slave trade, Spanish slave trade, British slave trade, French slave trade,

and Dutch slave trade, etc. Emancipation in Jamaica was in 1837 while in the U.S. was in 1860

, and I came to this route to feel the old history of a mankind and a new face of problem

derived from the old, poverty existed in the current world. I cannot do anything yet I can at least

show my concern, a meaningful of life indeed.

This Georgetown is more colorful than the previous stop. As usual habit, I walked toward the

right direction passing through the open market of gift and souvenir. The beach water is clear

and there are pretty roasters roaming around the bushes and I feel that the town is better off

already because they don’t bother these chicken at all. It means that the protein is plenty for

everyone so that they leave animals alone. I humbly asked a museum clerk my urgent question  

and this well learned lady knew the question in advance because every passengers asked the

same question that what was the reason of the better off, in one day we stayed in two different

world, the first world and the third world. She said because that Jamaican fight for independence while the Cayman islanders selected to stay with the Great Britain. Felicia, my

Jamaican neighbor, disagreed.

The second stop was an art gallery and luckily I ran into another well learned lady to discuss

such subject, I realize that there is a good school system provided for the citizen, they are

well educated, the first step toward better off. We also discussed the roaming chicken that

I compared it with the fighting cook at Kawaii Island of Hawaii. She says that Cayman one has

no toughness issue as the Hawaiian describe.

I saw fresh fish stand on a roadside near a scuba diving school. I was attracted to the red snapper which looked very delicious to think of Sushi and Sashimi at Jasmine on board.