Cayman - Picture of the Day

[KathyV]

Still essentially closed for tourism - I suspect it will be late spring before they reopen and very much based on vaccination progress as they've never really had a plan beyond just staying shut until this passes that I can see! I'm trying to be hopeful but feeling more pessimistic at this point that my planned mid-April trip will be able to happen as scheduled. We'll see and I'll reschedule as required - anxious to get back to dive with my favorite dive ops and support the local economy.

Tony from @Divetech Cayman posted this link recently, the tourism association is proposing a plan for reopening Cayman:
A Safe & Measured Reopening For The Cayman Islands | Reopen Cayman

 

[Joneill]

Tony from @Divetech Cayman posted this link recently, the tourism association is proposing a plan for reopening Cayman:
A Safe & Measured Reopening For The Cayman Islands | Reopen Cayman

Thanks - hopefully they can figure something out that will be safe for the Islands without being too cumbersome to be enjoyable for visitors.

 

[cobra269]

Received this yesterday from Clearly Cayman Dive Resorts:

Dear Valued Guest,

Yesterday, the Cayman Islands Government announced its plan for allowing international stayover visitors. While the announcement did not provide an exact reopening date, it is being reported that international tourism will be able to resume in March 2021.

 

[mi000ke]

Merry Christmas....

(Last Sunday at Lighthouse Point)

 

[Divetech Cayman]

Merry Christmas from Little Cayman! The staff here at Reef Divers misses everyone and sends their regards.

 

[mi000ke]

Toll-taker on the job this morning at Trinity Caves....

 

[mi000ke]

We had a surprise visitor swim by our beach about 5 feet off shore this afternoon - quite unusual

 

[Joneill]

We had a surprise visitor swim by our beach about 5 feet off shore this afternoon - quite unusual

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Nice - in past years, we’ve seen several large nurse sharks in close to shore (waste deep water) on Seven Mile Beach as well and an Eagle Ray on 2 different occasions. The sharks just swam by casually, but the Eagle Rays hung around for almost 30 minutes feeding in the shallows. Very cool to see them that close in.

 

[mi000ke]

Nice - in past years, we’ve seen several large nurse sharks in close to shore (waste deep water) on Seven Mile Beach as well and an Eagle Ray on 2 different occasions. The sharks just swam by casually, but the Eagle Rays hung around for almost 30 minutes feeding in the shallows. Very cool to see them that close in.

This was also on SMB, but was a black tip (one dorsal fin vs 2 for nurse shark and tipped black, which you can't really see in the photo), which we don't see much. Drew quite a crowd following it along on the beach plus a few boats.

 

[mi000ke]

This was also on SMB, but was a black tip (one dorsal fin vs 2 for nurse shark and tipped black, which you can't really see in the photo), which we don't see much. Drew quite a crowd following it along on the beach plus a few boats.

An update: So when we first saw the shark go by there was a debate on shore as to whether it was a reef or black tip, plus I talked to a couple of DMs who saw it as well. The black tip side won. But better pictures that have come out seem to show it was a reef shark. Either way it was pretty cool.