Little Cayman beach - where dreams become true vacations
All Beaches in the Cayman Islands are public up to the high water mark. Little Cayman's beaches offer a respite from the more crowded Grand Cayman beaches. Many more iguanas than people live on Little Cayman, a ten-mile-long island with a year-round population of 170. Across a seven-mile-wide channel lies Cayman Brac, population just under 1,800. Both islands lure divers the 89 miles northeast from Grand Cayman. Postcard pretty Little Cayman serves as a true Caribbean escape, where signs declare "Iguana! Drive Carefully." Wild cotton, scrub brush, and palm trees grow along the roadsides and the occasional West Indian whistling duck flies overhead. Bountiful reefs lure divers and snorkelers, and birders travel here to see the largest colony of red-footed boobies in the Caribbean. During February's nesting season, thousands of boobies and hundreds of magnificent frigate birds make the Booby Pond Nature Reserve home. Around sunset, when the boobies bring back their catch to feed the young, the frigate birds swoop in, harassing the food-bearing birds until some of them regurgitate or release their fish. Take a tour and observe these natural behaviors. If you book a property bordering the reserve, keep in mind that if the wind shifts late at night, the stench of booby guana can be a bit overwhelming. Why do iguanas cross the road in the west end? Because they hear a guide's car horn, the food arriving signal. Soon after the honking listen for the crunch of breaking leaves and twigs as iguanas slowly emerge from the underbrush. When the guide throws bread toward one, prepare to be surrounded by a half-dozen pairs of beady red eyes, a fun experience for kids. Bone fishing is another popular activity on Little Cayman as is kayaking to nearby Owen Island for a swim and picnic. Families with experienced divers come to Little Cayman for good diving and a quiet getaway. More than 500 types of fish and 100 species of coral inhabit the 56 walls, wrecks, and sites off Little Cayman. Most snorkelers go out on dive boats, but a few snorkel sites such as Jackson's Bight may be accessed from the beach. This mini-wall begins about 50 feet from shore, where schools of blue tang and parrot fish hang out amongst the bright orange boulders of brain coral and beds of purple fan coral. Drawn by the iridescent, almost eerie light, float toward the wall's edge to peer down into the vast blue emptiness.
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