Five divers traveled to Little Cayman Beach Resort on Saturday, May 31, for a week of valet diving. Four of us did three dives per day; two dives in the morning and one in the afternoon. The weather was pretty good the first two days. However, the wind picked up on the third morning and all dives were canceled after the first dive of the morning. The weather improved by mid-day the next day and we were able to do two dives in the afternoon. After that, we were able to do all of our planned dives. The seas were pretty bumpy on the resort's side of the island but calm on the other side where we could dive Bloody Bay Wall. The weather was never good enough for the dive shop to offer a night dive or a trip to Cayman Brac.
Little Cayman Beach Resort has always offered the best valet diving experience I have seen, and this year was no exception. The crew on our boat was experienced and extremely helpful. The food at the resort was excellent and the staff on land were as experienced and helpful as the boat crew. I was impressed that the restaurant staff remembered us from previous years. The rooms are spacious and well kept. The resort had presentations and games scheduled at the bar each evening. The presentations were interesting and educational.
The resort has gone to a great deal of effort to mitigate the various problems experienced by coral reefs in the Caribbean. One of the presentations informed us about their efforts to control the lionfish population around the island. Teams of divers have hunted and killed thousands of lionfish, with the result that I only saw one lionfish during my week of diving there.
Here is a picture Laura took of me approaching the last remaining pillar coral on Little Cayman. This one has regenerated after being knocked down by storms. Visibility was good to excellent for all of our dives.
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