The winds have been howling all day here on Little Cayman and the dive boats have been hugging the south shore. Since I couldn't go diving, I spent the day working on a project I started last spring but never completed: putting together a Shore Diver's Guide to Little Cayman. It still isn't completed, and in fact may never be completed, but I do now have notes that cover everything from Salt Rock Dock around to the entry for Cumber's Caves. I still haven't written up anything to cover Bus Stop, Cumber's Caves, Jackson Bight, Eagleray Roundup, Meadows, Mike's Mount, or Nancy's Cup of Tea, but will get a round tuit soon. In any case, anybody who shore dives Little Cayman already knows that entry anyway. What I wanted to do was get down my notes on how to reach all the Bloody Bay sites. I've now hung those notes off my web page at http://www.qsl.net/zf2nt/Shore Diving/shore_diver.htm, so they are now public. I know there are several people who browse this board who have extensive shore diving experience on Little Cayman, so I invite you to take a look and give me your comments, corrections, and anything else you might care to add.
By way of background, I have been living on Little Cayman approximately six months each year since 1998, and before that I made numerous trips to Little Cayman both shore diving and diving with the resort boats. I have over 1600 logged dives, and about half those are here on Little Cayman. Also, I spent last winter working as a divemaster at one of the resorts on the island. So I do think I know the Little Cayman dive sites. But every time I go out, which is almost daily, I learn something new. Thus I'm sure these notes are incomplete at best and could always be improved. So I offer this as a starting point, and perhaps collectively we can get enough information together that people will understand that the dive sites off Little Cayman can be reached from shore, that you don't have to fork over big bux to the resorts to take you out to the dive sites on a boat, and that a budget dive vacation on Little Cayman really is a possibility. What say?
Bruce
By way of background, I have been living on Little Cayman approximately six months each year since 1998, and before that I made numerous trips to Little Cayman both shore diving and diving with the resort boats. I have over 1600 logged dives, and about half those are here on Little Cayman. Also, I spent last winter working as a divemaster at one of the resorts on the island. So I do think I know the Little Cayman dive sites. But every time I go out, which is almost daily, I learn something new. Thus I'm sure these notes are incomplete at best and could always be improved. So I offer this as a starting point, and perhaps collectively we can get enough information together that people will understand that the dive sites off Little Cayman can be reached from shore, that you don't have to fork over big bux to the resorts to take you out to the dive sites on a boat, and that a budget dive vacation on Little Cayman really is a possibility. What say?
Bruce
