Little Cayman Diving

During the 2018 Monterey Shootout underwater photography contest, Heather ranked 3rd out of about 170 participants for the quality and composition of her excellent photos. Her prize was a trip for two to the Cayman Islands. We packed our bags at the start of January 2019 and headed south to the Caribbean to enjoy some wonderful big wall diving in warm, tropical waters.

We didn’t go to Little Cayman only for the diving. On our third dive of the day, I tapped Heather on the shoulder (after she finished taking pictures of some tiny thing) and when she turned around, I presented her with a black ring box that I opened to reveal a blue silicone ring! Heather started smiling so much that her mask filled up with water and she sank a little bit. After she recovered, she donned her new ring and we kissed and hugged. Then she saw I had some back up rings in case the one in the box sprung free! Fortunately it did not and we didn’t add any plastic to the oceans. When we surfaced and the staff asked how our dive was we excitedly shared we’d gotten engaged! They said we were the first people to get engaged on their boat. No one else was in the water at the time so it was a special moment with just us, but we did get a pretty good selfie.
Heather up on the top of the reef looking for one or two last tiny things to take a photo of before we have to go on our surface interval for our flights home.

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