We are extremely free to roam the beach, up to the High Water Mark.
Camping the beaches is a local tradition here on Easter weekend.
That is when the Caymanians move the household to the large tents they erect.
Fridges, cookers, you would be surprised!! All Propane fired.
To roam free in the Caymanian bush is legal, so yes, we do have some sort of freedom to do that.
Would I?
Never. Too hot, nothing to see.
Parts are so called Ironshore rock. Fossilized reef.
Will shred your boots, flip glops and feet in less than 25 meters.
I tried, ruined the trainers in about 10 meters.
We do have quite a few people that, you could say, do bushcrafty things, or oldfashined handwork.
Cool stuff.
My favourite is a character that makes cool jewelery from local Black Coral.
When I tell local people what I do up in Norway you can see in their eyes they think I am mad.
Woody Girl, no worries!
I am used to him by now. It feels good that he admires my lifestyle, sense of humor and generous personality!
The best one was when he implied I was some sort of illegal money laundering drug baron, depriving decent countries of much needed tax income, (I assume so people like him could be on benefits?)
That one was cool!
@Janne, I missed this little missive!
Taking your last point first, no, I am not (and never have been) “on benefits”. However, many good people (including a significant number of men and women who have served in this country’s armed forces), through no fault of their own do find themselves reliant on state benefits at some point in their lives. I hope that you not the type of person who thinks that someone is of less worth as a person or that their opinion is less valid because they are suffering financial hardship.
The benefits I do enjoy these days are those that come from being outdoors pretty much from sun up to sun down - priceless.
I don’t recall ever suggesting that you were anything as glamourous and exciting as a “drug baron”, merely that it would be nice if some of the £billions lost to the UK tax authorities through dubious arrangements using offshore tax havens like the Caymans could be reclaimed and used to fund education in the UK. I am happy to accept that you are just a dentist - but then again IIRC, Don Corleone was just a humble olive oil merchant!
Anyway, back to “right to roam” - so you didn’t like walking in the UK because you did not have the unfettered right to walk anywhere you wanted so you chose to move to a small island where there is a right to roam but you don’t like walking there because it is too hot and there is nothing to see. A cynic might suggest that actually deep down you don’t really like walking. It seems to me that despite your claimed passion for bushcrafting and the outdoors, you have effectively condemned yourself to being an armchair/keyboard bushcrafter for 11 months of the year.
Happy to be proved wrong and will await with interest the trip report of your next “mad” expedition to Norway - hopefully there will be some multi day treks to whet people’s appetites and lots of pictures, kit lists (people on here love them
), route descriptions, maps, locations of campsites etc.
On the subject of pictures (and/or virtue signalling/w!lly waving), while I could never hope to match your heroism in re-establishing a route up the hostile north face of Crowborough in East Sussex, I did come across a few pictures from my days managing a National Park in Africa. Small beer by comparison with your efforts but this involved locating and restoring overgrown trails in the bush, replacing hundreds of old signposts and rebuilding bridges sabotaged by ivory poachers to frustrate anti-poaching patrols. I didn’t do it all on my own I did have local assistance.
I even got my ugly mug in a book someone wrote about the area - I’m the paler one without the M16!
It is of course hot in Africa (some parts make the Caribbean seem postively chilly) but sitting in an air conditioned room is not an option if there is no electricity (and IMHO a bad idea anyway) so you get out, acclimatise and get on with it.
Anyway, looking forward to the Norway report and pix - if only to provide tangible proof that you are not a 13 year old trolling us from his bedroom!
