nikyyo:
I am planning a trip to little cayman with some friends for this feb or Jan. I was wondering if that was a good time to go there. I read some reports that it is possible to get "blown out" during that time. Is it, in most people's opinions, an ok time to go? Should I either go a little sooner or later in the year? There will be four of us and I am looking into paradise villas and divers as they seem to be the most cost efficient operation on the island. People seem to like them as well. Thanks for all responses.
January and February are the perfect time to go to Little Cayman. Personally, I would vote for February over January simply because the sun is a little higher in the sky, but that's a small point. The water may be a trifle warmer in January, but just a very little. I normally start wearing a 3 mil suit sometime in January when the water temperature goes below about 79, but there are plenty of people around who start wearing a wet suit earlier.
It is true that we sometimes have cold fronts move through in the winter, and when that happens the wind can be fairly stiff out of the north. Rarely does this last long enough for people on a week's vacation to miss seeing the north wall (Bloody Bay Wall), but it does happen. And if it does, the diving on the south shore is really just as interesting. You don't get the spectacular wall dives, but the south side sites are interesting in their own way.
You will have a very good time at Paradise Villas. The virtue there is that the rooms are really small efficiency apartments, and you can cook in your room when you feel like doing so. If you want to do this, I strongly suggest you go down to Foster's Food Fair on Grand Cayman when you go through the Grand Cayman airport and browse their meat section for whatever appeals to you. It's only a 15 minute walk from the terminal, and the selection is quite good. Once you get to Little Cayman, the choices are frozen chicken...or frozen chicken...or frozen chicken.
I should mention that PV is the home of the early birds. Banana Wind, their dive boat, is always the first one out the inlet. I think they want their divers to assemble by 7:30 each morning. The routine has been to meet at the office and then ride in a pick-up truck to the dock owned by Pirate's Point, then board the boat from there. However, I lhave learned that that dock was wiped out last Thursday by Hurricane charlie, so I'm not sure how they're handling things right now. All should be smooth for you by January, however.
Bruce
