CAYMAN ISLANDS ~ Hell Town ~

... Strange things can happen in postcard land  ʘ͜͡ʘ... sometimes you have a special place on your wishlist and thinking never ever to get one from there... and than unexpected you got two within a couple of weeks... this one is even better because it was stamped at "Hell Town's" tiny post office itself... Thanks a lot Roos!!【ツ】

© Ivan Farrington
Hell is a group of short, black, limestone formations in Grand Cayman located in West Bay, it is roughly the size of half a soccer field. Visitors are not permitted to walk on the limestone formations but viewing platforms are provided.

Regardless of how it first came to be called Hell, the name stuck and the area has become a tourist attraction, featuring a fire-engine red hell-themed post office from which you can send “postcards from hell”, and a gift shop with "Satan" Ivan Farrington passing out souvenirs while greeting people with phrases like ‘How the hell are you?’ and ‘Where the hell are you from?’

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 Marine Life - Definitives
 (09-10-2012)

CAYMAN ISLANDS ~ Greetings from Hell - Grand Cayman ~

...Fantastic surprise postcard nr 2... once you arrive in the paradise of the Cayman Islands, you can take a side trip to Hell, literally... never in a million years I would have thought to get a postcard showing Hell in the Carribean... it was on my wishlist after getting one from Hell Norway and USA...Thank you very much Andrene♥   must have been a dream holiday!! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Greetings from Hell...see you soon!
"Hell" is a group of short, black, limestone formations eroded from ironshore in Grand Cayman. Located in West Bay, it is roughly the size of half a football field. Visitors are not permitted to walk on the limestone formations but viewing platforms are provided.

There are numerous versions of how Hell received its name, but they are generally variations on "a ministration exclaimed, 'This is what Hell must look like.'"

It is also claimed that the name "Hell" is derived from the fact that if a pebble is thrown out into the formation, it echoes among the limestone peaks and valleys and sounds as if the pebble is falling all the way down to "Hell." Regardless of how it first came to be called Hell, the name stuck and the area has become a tourist attraction,

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Marine Life - Definitives
(09-10-2012)

CAYMAN ISLANDS ~ Grand Cayman ~

...Found this amazing early Christmas✨ gift in my mailbox today... a fantastic new Island to add to my collection... as written on the postcard a "Tropical Paradise"... crystal clear blue water... a place I only can dream of... Thanks soooo very much Andrene!! Big Hug !! ( ˘ ³˘)❤

"Visitors from cruiseships arrive to find an enchanted island with glorious beaches and abundant wildlife"
The Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean Sea. This territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman located near to Cuba, Costa Rica,  Panama, Mexico and Jamaica.

Grand Cayman Island is the largest of the three Cayman Islands and the location of the territory's capital, George Town.
Of the three islands, Grand Cayman contains approximately 95% of the territory's entire population and the island encompasses 76% of the entire land mass.

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Marine Life - Definitives
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