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We go to the Cayman Islands every year to go scuba diving. Our last trip was in April, 2001.

Where the heck are the Cayman Islands? You can see them on this map -- they are the little specks of dust just south of Cuba.

Map by Gene Ingle of MapSource, Inc.

 

Here are a few pictures Linda took on land. See the underwater photos here. Robin took the out-of-focus ones. Click on a picture to see a larger image (and then use the back button on your browser to return to this page for more).

RumPtSunset.jpg (46924 bytes) Ah, Rum Point -- the best place in the world to watch a sunset. We found ourselves here almost nightly, laying in hammocks with good books until the sun dipped so low over the water that we couldn't see anymore.
Waves.jpg (23092 bytes) It looks inviting, doesn't it? Unfortunately, the reef comes right up to the shore, the water is very shallow, and you could cut yourself to pieces by swimming at this spot on the south side of the island.
 

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This picture was taken near a place on the south side of the island called "the Blow Holes", for obvious reasons. I think it was named after my boss, George.
 

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Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
 

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Another of Linda's Rum Point sunset pictures.
LindaOnBeach.jpg (32271 bytes) Here's Linda in one of her favorite spots on a small north side beach. This part of the island is not very populated, and so you can walk along looking for bleached coral for a long time without seeing another soul.
Lizards.jpg (49679 bytes) Doesn't this look like a mirror-image photo? But we haven't digitally altered it at all. We found these two guys (or two girls? Hmmm...) on a log in a park on the way from the resort into town. Cayman lizards look a lot like Florida lizards, but they are bigger and have curly tails.
RmPtDock.jpg (40085 bytes) Yes, it's Rum Point again. We took so many pictures of sunsets here because, well, every night we'd say, "Can you believe that sunset? The people back home are never going to believe this unless we take a picture..."
SmithLBS.jpg (23914 bytes) Linda's standing on an overhang at Smith's Cove, another of our favorite spots. (Are there any spots in the Caymans that aren't our faves? I'll have to think about that.) We usually do a shore dive here, but this trip we only had time to stop and take a photo and wonder what we were missing 100 yards out and 60 feet down.
 

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Somewhere on the south side of the island again -- I don't even know where because everywhere you look all over the island, there's water and sky this blue.