We had opted to do the "Shipwreck and Reef Snorkeling" excursion. It's relatively cheap by excursion standards, $39 per adult.
We met at the DLounge. They have piles of towels there for you to take.
Off topic here, when we were on the Norwegian Gem last year towels always seemed to be a project. At the pool you had to go to a little kiosk and ask someone for them and they would take your room number, but there wasn't always someone there... it was a project. On this trip there were PILES of towels everywhere. I felt like they were overcompensating by about 100 times. It was great.
Grand Cayman is a tender port, so from the DLounge we were led to a tender with a couple other groups, it all ran very smoothly. This is also the first time that we were able to get a real good, unobstructed, look of the ship. You forget while onboard just how pretty it is.
Once on land, 5-10 minutes later, Disney cast members were there to direct us to our tour guides. It was all very organized.
It was a short walk to a little beach where our boat was waiting. Our tour guides consisted of our head guide, a man from Canada, and 2 other guides, 1 girl from Canada and another from Scotland. They were all incredibly nice and made us feel very safe. There was about 30 people on the tour.
We took a short ride to the first place, everything was in the main port area, so it was like swimming right outside the ship.
The reef was nice, nothing crazy, but plenty of fish.
The water is very salty here, they said it was the 5th highest salt content in the world I think. You can totally feel it, our lips were starting to get chapped like we had eaten a bowl of super salty popcorn or something.
A quick 5 minute ride and we were at the second site, "The Callie". It's a neat shipwreck that isn't too deep, I was able to get down to it pretty easily.
Then they dropped us back where they picked us up. It's a short tour so you are able to still do plenty of site seeing around the port area if you're interested.
The parking lot.
We decided to head back to the ship...