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Our fourth trip to Little Cayman and our fourth stay at Pirates Point Resort.
See here for the 2017 report. This report is only a brief update.
The weather wasn't perfect, but wasn't really bad. We did three dives on the south side (first time diving there) as it was too windy/rough to the north on Bloody Bay Wall.
As always it was a very congenial group.
We had dinner with Susan, owner and daughter of the renowned Gladys Howard who founded the resort and has sadly passed. Susan told stories of what it was like from Day One - quite a change from today.
Here's a map of the dive sites off Little Cayman with the resort's location shown. The most famous dive sites are on Bloody Bay Wall and Jackson's Bight.
The resort is beautifully balanced between hard core diving, great food and a very very relaxed pace. The two dives are done in a leisurely style, with no demands to keep the dives short. Breakfast is at 8:00, departure for the boat at 9:00 and we would get back to the resort around 2:30 pm with lunch waiting for us; hors d'oeuvres were at 6:30 and dinner at 7:30. They carefully provided dinners for us that avoided various food issues. On Friday evenings there's a reception in Susan's home; they even made special no-onions sushi for Val.
Here's what I look like underwater (you can see why only crazies take UW photos).
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I also wrote my first tripadvisor review:
Diving With Friends
We've just returned from our fourth trip to Pirate's Point Resort on Little Cayman. And we enjoyed it as much as we did our previous three trips. The diving was as before: just a few lion fish, not too bad algae coverage, a number of pipe horses (even found one myself), nurse sharks, turtles, slugs. And the fun drop offs and swim throughs of the wall. This year we dove on the south side of the island for the first time (due to wind conditions) and enjoyed it due to increased coral coverage. The operation remains the same with very high quality dive guides; help with your equipment if you need and want it. We actually relaxed more than usual by including a non-diving day and found it enjoyable as well. The food continues at a very high standard with the addition of Winston. They were very careful to address our individual food issues and we often had separate mains and sides just for us. The atmosphere remains very congenial with lots of meeting, greeting and chatting. Highly recommended!"
My underwater photos are linked here, but here's my very own Pipehorse - the first (and only) one I've found.
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On to the photos!