cduffey
Contributor
My husband and I just returned from a short dive vacation in Little Cayman. We stayed at Pirates Point Resort for the first time and were very happy with the food, accomodations, diving and dive service. We traveled on Thursday, dove Fri, Sat and Sun, and returned home on Monday. The weather was perfect -- high 80's, breezy. The seas were calm and the water temp 80-82 degrees. Pirates Point was a little different from the resorts where we've stayed before. The guests, for the most part, are a little older. I may have been one of the youngest divers, and I'm 41. It is really laid-back, but the result is that nearly everyone we dove with were really experienced divers. Most guests there were repeat visitors, some have been there at least once a year for 10+ years.
Oh, but the diving! THE DIVING!! Our dive guides were really great. The coral and fish were healthy and abundant. We saw black tip sharks off the wall, several stingrays, large grouper, and many turtles. I saw my first seahorse. Apparently one of the dive masters there is trying to catalog the location and number of seahorses, so she's really good at spotting them. Pirates Point does two dives per day, but they do really long profiles. Breakfast at 8:00, on the boat by about 9:30, the first deep dive about an hour long, or until you're out of air, 1 hour surface interval, and another 1 hour dive, then back to the resort for lunch at about 2 pm. We dove a site called Randy's gazebo -- it is a must do, in my opinion, if you get to LC. It is probably in my top 2 most beautiful dive sites. Others may disagree, as I've had about 100 dives limited to Cozumel, Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, Cayman Brac and the BVI.
We can't wait to return for a longer trip.
Oh, but the diving! THE DIVING!! Our dive guides were really great. The coral and fish were healthy and abundant. We saw black tip sharks off the wall, several stingrays, large grouper, and many turtles. I saw my first seahorse. Apparently one of the dive masters there is trying to catalog the location and number of seahorses, so she's really good at spotting them. Pirates Point does two dives per day, but they do really long profiles. Breakfast at 8:00, on the boat by about 9:30, the first deep dive about an hour long, or until you're out of air, 1 hour surface interval, and another 1 hour dive, then back to the resort for lunch at about 2 pm. We dove a site called Randy's gazebo -- it is a must do, in my opinion, if you get to LC. It is probably in my top 2 most beautiful dive sites. Others may disagree, as I've had about 100 dives limited to Cozumel, Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, Cayman Brac and the BVI.
We can't wait to return for a longer trip.
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