We arrived in Grand Turk in the morning and the ship docked.
We headed out and walked with our group along the beach to wear a boat awaited to take us on a reef snorkel and stingray experience. We did snorkel as Tash doesn't scuba dive, and there wasn't a listed excursion for diving (I later found out a few divers had done a non-Princess dive trip and had a great time).
We took the boat a short distance out to the reef and as we did they passed out the fins, masks, snorkels and snorkling vests and went over procedures. Water in the area of the reef would be about 15 feet deep so no issues.
We got in and started swimming around a bit to view the reef and assorted sea life there.
One lady on the trip got immediately kinda freaked out snorkeling and was then towed around the reef by one of the tour guides so she could view the reef. Good on her for giving it a go, and sticking to it even after getting scared and still staying in the water and getting the experience.
It was a nice, relaxing time snorkeling in calm warm water. No complaints there. After about a half hour We then re-boarded the boat and headed to the waters by a beach where the stingrays were known to hang out.'
Sure enough one came right in and up to the tour guide and the stingray experience was on.
The stingray was big. You got to hold it, give it a kiss, and get a stingray hug. The hug felt like being covered with a large, wet, soft, mushroom:
A rather gentle animal, it was rewarded with fish for its efforts, and seemed to enjoy the interaction as much as all the people did, as it happily hung around.
Once the tour ended, we wandered around for a bit, and then headed back to the ship for a nap and to hang out our wet clothes.
Then on to dinner and I again played craps and won $25 to make it the end of another great day.
