Grand Cayman (Pt 2)

Most of our shopping in Grand Cayman was for cheap jewelry - and even then we didn't get much, mostly just whatever coupons we got on the ship.
Señor Frog says "Hi!" (with a little help from Daddy)

After a little bit, the boys headed back to the ship and me, Emily, and Mom stayed on a bit longer to poke around. Emily made a new boyfriend:

Big Black Dick says "Hi!" (with minimal assistance from me). There's a Tortuga Rum Cake ad in the background.
As copied from the sign next to the statue:

Big Black Dick

It is believed that Big Black Dick was born of ‘Royal’ African parentage before being kidnapped by French Slavers who gave him the name of “Richard Le Noir”. Unable to subdue his efforts to regain his freedom, his French captors, tossed Richard overboard near a Caribbean island, which may have been Grand Cayman Island.
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Miraculously reaching land, he served for several years laboring in a sugar cane field where he learned the secretes of how to turn the sugar cane into the Caribbean’s finest rum. Dick also learned to cultivate the tobacco plants and hand craft the richest flavored cigars. His kindly Caymanian master recognized his hard work and honestly rewarded him his freedom in the early 1700’s.
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A free man and a skilled seaman, Dick tossed away his French name and became known as Big Black Dick. He sooned earned the rank of captain of a three-masted-square rigger named “Caymanus”. She was a ship carrying 20 cannons with a crew of nearly 200 men that were known as the best in the Caribbean.
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History tells us that “Big Black Dick” was a dashing and handsome figure of a man, wearing a bright purple velvet coat and four pistols in his red silk sash. Those who knew him most intimately, know how much of a man he, indeed, was…possessing certain physical attributes unequaled by most ‘all’ other men of his gender.
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After a successful career, Big Black Dick retired to a more peaceful venture of making the best original pirate rum and the finest hand made cigars in the Caribbean.

[sic sic sic. All of the random commas and quotes are the signmakers]
What's even better, is this statue is EVERYWHERE. We saw a half dozen in the couple blocks we walked.

After we got back on the ship, showered, snacked, and rested, it was supper time! Hurrah!! All of the waiters/backwaiters/dining room staff did a musical number for us - complete with napkins waving and much dancing. It was the end song from Slumdog Millionaire.


As usual, the towel animal was awaiting us when we returned.