It's summer time and love is in the air again, this time it's two distant 'lovers' rekindling their relationship of over 100 years.

Port Arthur in Beaumont, which is about 90 miles east of Houston in Texas, United States, had a dinner date with the Cayman Islands last weekend. 

Popular Cayman entertainer the Barefoot Man represented the Island in last Saturday's Cayman Night event at the Carl Center at Lamar State College.

The Outriggers Band featuring Bob Brammer and KO Harlow complemented the Barefoot Man's performance in Cayman Night - an annual fixture in the small Texas town.

Beaumont is home to 114,000 people including hundreds of Caymanians from all three Islands that have settled there over the last century. 

According to the organisers, the locals did not have to make the trip to the Islands to taste Cayman music, food and other festivities, which has been part of Port Arthur's tradition.

According to the Beaumont Enterprise, the affair began in the early 1900s when Port Arthur became an entry point for Cayman sailors and their families who made the city their home. 

That seal of love could be found in the shells in the fence at the front of Eddingston Court, which were imported from Grand Cayman by a ship captain in 1929.

"The Cayman Party" was instituted in 1981 and two years later, Port Arthur and Grand Cayman were declared sister cities by the Beaumont community.

Cayman Night actually was supposed to be last October, but Hurricane Rita rolled through the month before the festivities could get off the ground.

Port Arthur has created its own personal guide to connecting to the heart of the much sought after 'darling' of the tourism world:

"Head southeast from Port Arthur into the Gulf of Mexico and pass between Cuba and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, but don't go quite to Jamaica.

"Then, be careful not to miss the three tiny islands, Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman."