[Rhodes22-list] Cayman Brac - SCUBA

[Wally Buck]

Rob,

Well it was about 7 years ago when we went to Cayman Brac. We were in a 
diving club and went with a group from Knoxville. Our focus was on diving!. 
At least three dives a day at both Cayman Blac and Little Cayman. The area 
is a divers paradise and the dive master and crew were first rate. I love to 
snorkel but you miss a lot and you do work harder.

Most of the diving in this area is 60 -90 feet down and the famous Bloody 
Wall is off Little Cayman. I got my Advanced Deep Diver Certification just 
prior to this dive. We went down about 135 feet but the wall just kept on 
going. The water is thousands of feet deep. The trip over to Little Cayman 
is a couple of hours. From what I could tell the fishing looked pretty good.

http://www.bracreef.com/index2.html

I think there were only 2 resorts on the island at the time. BracReef is 
fairly no frills and most of the guests are divers. The coral island is very 
flat with a 130 foot bluff on the east side. The bluff area is noted for 
variety of bird life. We drove to the East End one day and explored the 
bluff area. We explored some caves and met a bunch of bats. The island is 
made of coral and is not a tropical jungle like Jaimaca. Plant life is of a 
hardy variety.

The island is very kicked back with hardly anything going on other than what 
is on the resort. Our trip was all inclusive so we ate and drank at the 
resort. We did rent a car one day and another day we rode bikes around the 
island. The island is quite flat so biking is easy compared to the hills of 
TN.

The beach area of the resort had a sandy shaded area but most of the island 
is very rocky. There is a huge school of Tarpon that rest under the dock at 
the resort. They showed up every night.

We had a great trip. There were a few non-divers with the group and they 
mostly just relaxed on the beach.

Have fun!

Wally


>From: "Rob Lowe" <rlowe at vt.edu>
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>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Ugly Forcast
>Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:21:06 -0400
>
>Wally,
>No diving, but we are taking our snorkeling gear.  Any suggestions on what
>to do on Cayman Brac? That's where we are staying. - rob
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Wally Buck" <tnrhodey at hotmail.com>
>To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 8:55 AM
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Ugly Forcast
>
>
> > Rob,
> >
> > Do you SCUBA dive? I have vacationed at Little Cayman and Cayman Brac. 
>The
> > diving was awesome!
> >
> > Wally
> >
> >
> > >From: "Rob Lowe" <rlowe at vt.edu>
> > >Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > >To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > >Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Ugly Forcast
> > >Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:47:51 -0400
> > >
> > >I'm hoping it misses the Caymans, we have vacation plans for there in
> > >December. - rob
> > >
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: <R22RumRunner at aol.com>
> > >To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > >Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 1:09 PM
> > >Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Ugly Forcast
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > In a message dated 10/19/2005 12:22:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > > > ekroposki at charter.net writes:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/gmex-ir4-loop.html
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Damn, I hope it misses Cancun.
> > > >
> > > > Rummy
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