East Grand Cayman Diving
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CaymanKid
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I have a house on the east side. The best dive operator is ocean frontiers.
There is no shopping on the east side all of the shopping is on seven mile
beach. Resturants on the east side would be the light house,portofinos,
morritz club,over the edge. Great beach would be rum point or morritz.
There is no shopping on the east side all of the shopping is on seven mile
beach. Resturants on the east side would be the light house,portofinos,
morritz club,over the edge. Great beach would be rum point or morritz.
Damselfish
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The East End is more about "not doing." 
where are you staying?
where are you staying?
The East End is more about "not doing."
where are you staying?
We are staying at the Cayman Calypso Villa. This is not a diving only trip. It's a group of ladies going to celebrate a friends birthday which is a diver as well. She & I are the only divers in the group. We are probably going to dive with Ocean Fontiers. What's the water temps around that time of the year? Is there anything we should definitely visit or do while there? Thanks for the info so far.
Roombaguy
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I recorded 81-83 degrees on my three dives this week end.
The main to-do's (outside of diving) would be Stingray city, Rum Point and Seven Mile beach. Lots of great restaurants along Seven Mile Beach ... but that a +-50 minute drive from where you will be located. Someone else mentioned it, but I love the Portofino. Its out east. Their Sunday brunch is very good and the best deal on island. Not as spectacular as Westin, but definitely my favorite.
Enjoy.
M.
In addition to the above, there are few other things you might want to hit. On Tuesday nights, the Kaibo Yacht Club has a great beach BBQ and a live band from 7-9. On Tuesday and Thursday nights, the Barefoot Man (a local legend) plays at the Reef Club next to Morritts. Ocean Frontiers has a BBQ on Wednesday Nights where they show outdoor videos of the days dive and usually have a contest or two with prizes. There is a sunset sail you can take a few different nights of the week with Red Sail Sports up at Rum Point.
We just got back from Grand Cayman. Stayed in the SMB area at Grandview Condos but spent two full days on the east end. Had a FANTASTIC day diving with Ocean Frontiers. That place does it right from start to finish - just spectacular and I can't say enough good things about them. There were 5 of us on the trip, 3 not diving and two diving. The three went up to Rum Point while my buddy and I dove and they had so much fun we went back up for another day on Friday. Did the Stingray City trip with Redsail - a great way to go because we just snorkeled so all of us could share in the experience. We ate at Kaibo Yacht Club which was good. After dinner we went upstairs to the "rare" rum bar and had some excellent rums and that looked really nice in there. One issue we had around Kaibo was the sand fleas - they were really bad and we weren't prepared for them at all.
On the Stingray City day we had a great lunch and really enjoyed hanging out at the Red Sail bar / restaurant area.
We had a chance to stay in a condo up there but if we go again would probably stay on SMB like this time. The sand fleas would be a big part of it but the condo was also south facing and on an inlet rather than the ocean and it didn't have the same ambiance. If there were a place on the ocean or facing West Rum Point would be great. VERY laid back but very cool.
As I said though - if you want to dive the East end, and you should, it's fantastic and the reef are in substantially better shape than any other place I've been in the Caribbean (Roatan, Coz, Playa, Jamaica) - Ocean Frontiers has my highest recommendation. They were awesome.
On the Stingray City day we had a great lunch and really enjoyed hanging out at the Red Sail bar / restaurant area.
We had a chance to stay in a condo up there but if we go again would probably stay on SMB like this time. The sand fleas would be a big part of it but the condo was also south facing and on an inlet rather than the ocean and it didn't have the same ambiance. If there were a place on the ocean or facing West Rum Point would be great. VERY laid back but very cool.
As I said though - if you want to dive the East end, and you should, it's fantastic and the reef are in substantially better shape than any other place I've been in the Caribbean (Roatan, Coz, Playa, Jamaica) - Ocean Frontiers has my highest recommendation. They were awesome.
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