Hiking the Mastic Trail

Yesterday we got up early and drove to the north side of the Island to hike the two mile long Mastic trail. Since we did not have two cars that meant a 4 mile round trip walk. The trail is well known for the Cayman Parrots who live in a section of the trail and for the various flora and fauna common to these islands. We started hiking around 8 a.m. and had decided that we would turn back by no later than 9:30 since we didn't want to be on the trail after 11 a.m. when it gets really hot. The trail was very rocky and we only made it about a mile and a half in before it was time to turn around. We did see several parrots (one of which is pictured at left) and some other varieties of birds. We also got to see the different varieties of tree's and plants as well as getting in a nice hike. There weren't any iguanas out which was the one disappointing thing, so we will go to the Botanic gardens at some point to show them the island dragons. In the afternoon we went up to Queen's Monument to snorkel and then to a new site called Barefoot beach where we saw a yellow stingray, something we hadn't see before.