Comfort, Style, Quiet, Books, Beauty
Review Submitted: September 22, 2008
Date of Stay: December 2007
My wife and I spent a rejuvenating week at Cayman Kai Sea Lodge last December, and we're eagerly anticipating our return. Located on Cayman's most-ecologically-natural North Shore, but within walking distance of all the amenities you could desire at Rum Point resort, this bright and elegantly appointed cabana-style condo sits steps from a gorgeous beach and abundant snorkeling and swimming. You can also sit and read with the sea in view from the spacious, screened patio-porch.
The interior is brightly dressed in splashes of primary colors against seafoam-white walls. Louvered doors and windows on either side admit the reliable tropical breezes, so that even when you’re inside you're outside, if you'd like. For readers, it's all here, from J. M. Coatzee (Disgrace) to Marilyn Robinson (Housekeeping) to Ruth Rendell (An Unkindness of Ravens) and scores more in many genres...all I know is that I read 3 novels and 25 undergraduate research papers in a week, and I enjoyed them all. If that doesn't tell you how magical Cayman Kai is, I can only assume you've never read 25 undergraduate research papers.
We hiked the beach, toured the island in our rental car, watched a submersion baptism while snorkeling at a southwest shore cove, and shopped in George Town. We also chatted with the owner of Chilsom's grocery, just up the shore road from Cayman Kai, about her ancestor who washed ashore off a reef-foundered Scottish ship in the mid-1800's. With her own granddaughter rapt beside, she speculated that her ancestor’s hard-earned regard for the sea chased him 4 miles inland, where he and his wife raised 11 children in the dense bush; their own children then making their way back out toward the shore, and this store.
We're looking forward to returning this December when we’ll share all this wonder with our son and his girlfriend. My classes end later this year, so I'll just have the second half of that week with them, but I can't wait, and my students will be pleased that I'll spend even a few days with their papers at Cayman Kai Sea Lodge.
Thanks Jeri-Lynn,
Joe and Susan
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