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Cayman Islands Dos Throughout the Island Text by Cathy Church CaymanPhotos by Cathy Church and Tony Mark Islands —A guided tour with Cathy Church 18 X-RAY MAG : 41 : 2011 EDITORIAL FEATURES TRAVEL NEWS EQUIPMENT BOOKS SCIENCE & ECOLOGY EDUCATION PROFILES PORTFOLIO CLASSIFIED© 2011 CATHYCHURCH.COM travel Caymans © 2011 CATHYCHURCH.COM PREVIOUS PAGE: Coral garden at Blackie’s Hole. ABOVE: I stayed overnight on my boat in the north sound so that I could wake up with the sun and be at Stingray City sandbar when all of the rays came in for the day’s action. This photo is the sum of two photos taken as they approached me. The large stingray in the center is the same individual as the one just to the right of him. His shadow is not missing— it is hidden in a small valley of sand. He was not photoshopped, only the large stingray in front was When people ask me where hundreds to thousands of feet. This is south of Florida, USA. It is famous my favorite dive spots in the wonderful wall provides stunning div- above water for its world class Seven ing and the water is clear and warm. Mile Beach that runs along the entire entire world are, I have to Although sealife is not nearly as varied center of the western coast. The sand stop and give it some serious and prolific as in the south Pacific, it is is just right—not too fine, but not coarse thought. I like Fiji for soft corals, nonetheless pretty and interesting and either. It suits a set of bare feet per- Chuuk for wrecks, Indonesia some spots are down-right spectacular. fectly. for critters, the Solomon Where to stay Islands for an all- Seven Mile Beach is lined with every around trip and the U.S. range of accommodations from small west coast for kelp. But condominiums to the extravagant Ritz Carlton Hotel. Many dive operators I usually reply that I like pull their boats right up to the beach wherever I am going to pick up guests. While the snorkeling next, and that often here has some good spots, the diving is too far from shore for shore diving. includes right here in There are other hotels, villas and con- the Cayman Islands dos throughout the island. where I have the good There are four small, dedicated div- fortune to live. ing resorts—all with a friendly family atmosphere. Ocean Frontiers Diving Adventure at Compass Point Dive Like most dive areas in the Resort (all with full kitchens) has the world, there are always sur- whole pristine East side virtually to prises, always something © 2011 CATHYCHURCH.COM themselves. Divetech Divers at Cobalt lovely and always something Juvenile spotted drum. By moving my point of focus Coast (all rooms are one or two bed- to photograph. Let me tell to the lower right, and using only one strobe from the room ocean-view suites) and their new you what is so special about lower right, and waiting until the fish swam to the right, I environmentally friendly Lighthouse my hometown diving. was able to get the sort of photo that I visualized Point (nine condominiums with full The Cayman Islands are kitchens) on the Northwest corner has three small islands isolated in the Grand Cayman the best shore diving for critters. They Western Caribbean. They barely pro- Grand Cayman is the largest and most are also close to the great diving along trude from the ocean surface, atop a populated island of the three and is just the north wall and the west bay area. steep mountain that plunges abruptly 150 miles (241km) south of Cuba, which Sunset Divers at Sunset House on © 2011 CATHYCHURCH.COM Red finger sponges are common along the walls 19 X-RAY MAG : 41 : 2011 EDITORIAL FEATURES TRAVEL NEWS EQUIPMENT BOOKS SCIENCE & ECOLOGY EDUCATION PROFILES PORTFOLIO CLASSIFIED travel Caymans © 2011 CATHYCHURCH.COM Even the most common blennies look great when you find one in a perfect setting (above); Arrow crab (left); Fancy sponges are reef sculptures (far left) © 2011 CATHYCHURCH.COM the southwest is closest to the airport, ing one crossing my dock as I write son to visit us. The diving is warm, calm, shopping, restaurants and town. They this. Darn, he is going to eat some of safe, comfortable, usually free of cur- also have the best shore diving for vari- my garden plants. Oh, well—my plants rent, shallow and varied with lots of ety—a small wreck, a nine-foot bronze should not just be for the bugs to eat. canyons and interesting terrain. Let’s statue, friendly fish, a huge anchor and You can also visit the Cayman Turtle start with the very first Stingray City. even a canon. I may be prejudiced Farm where they raise turtles for food when writing about this location, as and to replenish their numbers in the Stingray City and Stingray Sandbar this is where my photo center is, but I wild. This appears to be an environ- Back in the day, fishermen came in chose to be here because of the easy mentally acceptable activity. On the from the north wall through a natural shore access and leeward location for other hand, I would suggest that you cut in the barrier reef of North Sound the most days of the year. The hotel consider not paying to watch trapped and cleaned their catch in the calm itself does not have the apartment dolphins work to get fed. The captive water. Stingrays quickly associated and other amenities of the other much dolphin entertainment industry is active the sound of a motorboat with the newer hotels. in Cayman with two dolphinariums. onslaught of fish cleanings dropped Since I have seen the horrors of how overboard and immediately congre- What to do these wonderful dolphins are captured gated below the boats. One day, Pat If, for some strange reason, you do not and ripped from their families, I cannot McKenney said, “Golly, I wonder if a want to spend every waking moment personally condone supporting their on- diver could get close to them while underwater, there are a few things to going enslavement. That said, there is they are eating?” I made up that do in Grand Cayman. There is a lovely always another side to every story, and sentence, but the idea is accurate. Botanical Park where you can see the I will still love you even if you tell me you Anyway, he got into the water and was rare and endangered Blue Iguana. went anyway. mobbed. The rest is history; Cayman They are being overrun by thousands of visitors come by the hundreds to feed the recently introduced Green Iguanas Diving in Grand Cayman these wonderful creatures. They are everywhere around the island, includ- Now for the diving! This is the real rea- smooth and soft underneath and being © 2011 CATHYCHURCH.COM 20 X-RAY MAG : 41 : 2011 EDITORIAL FEATURES TRAVEL NEWS EQUIPMENT BOOKS SCIENCE & ECOLOGY EDUCATION PROFILES PORTFOLIO CLASSIFIED travel Caymans © 2011 CATHYCHURCH.COM Sea bisquit—by backlighting this empty shell and adding a little reddish color, I made a new image of an old subject relatives of sharks, they have rough through the deep crevasses. had gotten a bit beaten up and skin on the top. Babylon North wall dive was NOT back on my list of good Babylon, like my other favorite dives. A few months ago my close Orange Canyon West Bay wall dive walls has a large pinnacle sepa- friend Christine and I went out on The next big treat are the walls. rated from the main wall by just a my boat, the M/Y Photo Journey, My personal favorites include few feet. You can swim through dropped down to 50 feet at the Orange Canyon. This labyrinth of the gap, being careful not to top of the large coral mound and coral pinnacles and swim throughs disturb the fragile sponges and to my surprise the swim throughs has orange sponges everywhere gorgonians lining the crevice. On were filled with silversides. I started you turn. When mixed with bright your way out, keep your eyes to taking pictures and almost yelped green halimeda algae and tall red the blue for the spotted eagle rays underwater at the combination finger sponges, every photo turns which cruise all of the walls of the of the flowing silversides and the out wonderfully. Turtles are not Cayman Islands. beautiful colors of the sponges. uncommon here; tiger groupers, I took some of my favorite pho- angel fish, and ocean trigger fish Blackie’s hole, Southwest wall dive tos ever that day. They are not hang out here also. During certain This dive is why I still like to dive the kind of photos that will sell seasons in spring and summer, look in Cayman. I had not visited this and make me rich and famous, for schools of silversides flowing site since hurricane Ivan in 2004. It but they are the type of photos © 2011 CATHYCHURCH.COM Red sponges 21 X-RAY MAG : 41 : 2011 EDITORIAL FEATURES TRAVEL NEWS EQUIPMENT BOOKS SCIENCE & ECOLOGY EDUCATION PROFILES PORTFOLIO CLASSIFIED travel Caymans © 2011 CATHYCHURCH.COM Divers enjoy a colorful overhang with sponges on Cayman wall (left); Watch for spotted eagle rays off the walls or on the sand flats (above); Rock Beauty, a yellow-faced damsel fish, will look right at you (right); I found this incredible gorgonian hydroid near the stern of the wreck of the Polson (lower right) that make me enjoy looking at of sponges, plenty them, and remembering a dive of queen angel fish, where I felt so much at home in a turtle on occa- the water.
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