Castaway Cay

 The following morning we awoke to docking at Disney's Castaway Cay.  We were all ready for a day of fun in the sand and sun.

 Our first stop was to feed the sting rays.  None of us quite knew what we were getting ourselves into.  We learned that all but one of the sting rays are females and they have preference for which feeding station to join.

 As they swam through the horseshoe station, they sucked up many morsels of squid and fish from our fingers.  Along the way we could pet anywhere except near their eyes.  All of us feed and touched the sting rays except Victoria.  Nonetheless, she was excited to share in the experience.  She remains true to her nature.

 Afterwards we had the opportunity to snorkel with the sting rays.  Several attempts at diving down to touch them always ended up in failure.  They are well designed for water life and we are not.

 Izzy, my snorkeling buddy.

 The remainder of the crew preferred to play in the sand for a variety of personal reasons.

 The majority of the day was enjoying the simple pleasures of the island... sun, building sand castles, rafts, inner tubes and cold island drinks.  Unfortunately we didn't get back to snorkeling.  Buried are two of the submarines from the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sear ride that has now been closed.  Oh what a fun memory to see one of them as I have memories of that ride from when I was a child.

Rowan, Micah & Victoria had a blast together.

 Quinn and Izzy... like two peas in a pod.

After lunch we headed to the other end of the beach area to try our hand at the slides.  The younger three swam out there only to return because they didn't want to wait in line.  I accompanied them back and played several rounds of I Spy to pass the time before it was our turn.  Everyone like the slides but no one liked the salt water in the eyes.