Grand Cayman Island, BWI, 28 July-3 August, 1997
General trip notes:
RCI trade so that we could stay at Morritt's Tortuga club. We spent most of the day, both ways, flying. Going, we went via Chicago and Miami. Returning, we went via Miami and Dallas. American Airlines, both ways, and they "lost" our luggage on the way back. We returned about midnight on Sunday, but the bags were not delivered to our house until 5:30 AM - just as we were getting up and needing them. Drive on the left, and weather was 80s and 90s, mostly sunny, with some good strong rain storms at night. Morritts was on the east end of the island, so we drove quite a bit (500 miles for the week) to the west end and 7-mile beach. Near the east end, there were usually many crabs crossing or sleeping on the road. They move fast during the day (hard to avoid), slower at night. Grand Cayman time is Eastern Standard Time - no daylight savings time, so during the summer, it's the same as Central Daylight Time. Grand Cayman has 601 indiginous and naturalized plant species, 2 amphibians, 1 fresh water turtle, 8 lizards, 4 snakes (all harmless), 1 fresh water fish, 45 bird species (lots of doves, with a white stripe down each wing), and 1 mammal. The mammal is the Cayman Agouti (Cayman rabbit) - short brown hair - we saw one crossing the road on the East End. Mostly cooked in the room (grocery stores are generally closed on Sunday). Went out 31 July: Breakfast at Hog Sty Bay Cafe - average. Lunch at Liberty's - very good fish and chips. Dinner at the Wharf - Excellent food (Cayman sampler of chicken, shrimp, scallops and shrimp Diane) and ambience - seaside outdoors. Excellent service, dinners $10 - $30, total $89 US (including automatic 15% tip).
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Tablerock Lake, Missouri
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Midwest Aquatics - Overland Park, Kansas (913) 451-6238
Peter Milburn - Grand Cayman
Eden Rock - Grand Cayman
Tortuga Divers - Grand Cayman
Cayman Diving Lodge - Grand Cayman
Xanax - Grand Cayman
50ft? flattop 2-hull catamaran house boat
48ft 1-hull 2-level
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36ft flattop 3-hull catamaran
26ft flattop 2-hull catamaran
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Caroline Crowle
Jennifer Koch
Martin Lichte
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Multilevel - 0:14 at 100+, 0:11 at 64, 0:04 at SS. Using the Wheel, 14@110:PG-K, plus 11@65:PG-Q. Same boat and trip as dive 14. A little hazy at 100 feet on the wall. Drop off to 2800 feet. Lots of fish, coral, and fan coral. Tuncates - hollow cylinder sponges? - approach with finger and they close up. Red sponges at 100 feet - black/grey but bright red in light. Also saw black-and- white spotted moray eel. Gloves not allowed (by Peter Milburn). Comfortable in 3mm wetsuit. Dove with Caroline, Scotty, and Gail (doing photography). Cost was $60 each (cash only) and included dives 13-14.
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50ft? flattop 2-hull catamaran house boat
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Flounder look like the sand - flat, and you can't see them unless they move (you can see their eyeballs up on stalks, though). Four-eyed butterfly fish, squirrel fish. Just Caroline and me - we weren't sure what to look for, but found lots of interesting things - sea fans, etc. Mostly diving at less than 50 feet, slid down to 54 for a few moments, last 20 minutes at less than 35 feet. Using the table, calculating ending PG at 50 feet, 38 + 28 (residual) = 66 - PG:U. Using the wheel: start PG-H, 18@55:PG-Q, plus 20@35:PG-T. Six divers, two divemasters.
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Eden Rock - Grand Cayman
Tortuga Divers - Grand Cayman
Cayman Diving Lodge - Grand Cayman
Xanax - Grand Cayman
50ft? flattop 2-hull catamaran house boat
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26ft flattop 2-hull catamaran
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Jennifer Koch
Martin Lichte
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Lots of corals and fish. Two small (1-foot body diameter) sting rays. Multilevel using the Wheel: 12@95:PG-G, plus 15@65:PG-P, plus 4@40:PG-Q, plus 5@SS. Five divers, 1 divemaster (Trip - PADI 62353 / NAUI 13901 / IANTDI 610). Cost was $60 each including dives 15 and 16.
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Lots of coral and fish, and the wreck of the Oro Verde. Just Caroline and me. Tried with no wetsuit - it was fine - not cold at all. Multilevel using the Wheel: 2@51:PG-I, plus 8@50:PG-M, plus 31@45:PG-V. Same boat and trip as dive 15, but we also picked up another dive master and two students with a resort class.
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Tortuga Divers - Grand Cayman
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Xanax - Grand Cayman
50ft? flattop 2-hull catamaran house boat
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Jennifer Koch
Martin Lichte
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Sting ray feeding by Scotty. Lots of sting rays from 1 foot to 3 foot body diameter. Wore extra weight since the depth was minimal. Also saw 6 foot green Moray eel (also felt it and photographed it). More flounders, and a 4 foot baracuda. Four divers (Caroline, me, Syd and Kathy from Phoenix), 1 divemaster, 2 snorkellers (Syd's kids). Cost was $45 each.
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Tortuga Divers - Grand Cayman
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Xanax - Grand Cayman
(none)
36ft flattop 3-hull catamaran
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Jennifer Koch
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Visibility was 30 feet in the light beam. Dove with Caroline and Syd (from dives 15-16-17). Saw a huge lobster, some sting rays, lots of coral (very colorful in the light). Tiny beady eyes in holes were shrimp. Syd had done this dive in daylight, so he led. Weight was a bit too much. Caroline's first night dive - she did great! Syd's second, my third. Saw various parrot fish, various angel fish, squirrel fish. Snorkelled out to buoy from shore, dove to 25 feet, toured mostly at about 40 feet. Swam back to shore at 20 to 10 feet. There were some small sparkley things - like fireflies - in the water near the shore when you turned off the light. Entry and exit was in three or four feet of water from a ladder or a ledge. Eden Rock dive shop closes at 17:30, so we rented tanks and weights for us and for Syd, and had Syd bring them back next morning. Cost was about $9 (US) each.
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Tablerock Lake, Missouri
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(none)
36ft flattop 3-hull catamaran
50ft? flattop 2-hull catamaran house boat
48ft 1-hull 2-level
45ft? 1-hull 2-level
26ft flattop 2-hull catamaran
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Caroline Crowle
Jennifer Koch
Martin Lichte
Notes:
Boat left at 9:30 - much easier than driving to west end. Profile was 100 feet for 20 minutes. Multilevel using wheel: 1@105:PG-A, plus 11@100:PG-K, plus 4@80:PG-N, plus 6@60:PG-Q, plus 5@SS (25 feet). Saw corals, small fish. Pristine reef - very colorful and untouched. Wall drops off to 3000 feet then into Cayman Trench (28000 feet?). About 30 minutes by boat north and west from Morritts. Boat (named Leatherback) had two dive ladders. Eighteen divers and three divemasters. Cost was $75 US per diver (includes dives 19-20).
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Tortuga Divers - Grand Cayman
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(none)
36ft flattop 3-hull catamaran
50ft? flattop 2-hull catamaran house boat
48ft 1-hull 2-level
45ft? 1-hull 2-level
26ft flattop 2-hull catamaran
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Big lobster in hole. Lots of colorful coral and sponges. Reef in good shape - not damaged. Weight was about right - good buoyancy. About 15 minutes by boat, north and west from Morritts. Multilevel using wheel: 1@64:PG-I, plus 8@60:PG-N, plus 20@50:PG-U, plus 7@35(and less):PG- V, plus 5@SS. Three-foot waves - exit was a little tricky. Anchored at about 50 feet - sandbars and boulders. Small slopy wall towards shore. Nose starting to get clogged - sinuses. Not sure if I got Caroline's cold, or just from the dives. Left ear hard to equalize. Same boat and trip as dive 19.
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(none)
36ft flattop 3-hull catamaran
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48ft 1-hull 2-level
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26ft flattop 2-hull catamaran
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Caroline Crowle
Jennifer Koch
Martin Lichte
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Good buoyancy. Just Caroline and me. Lots of fish - large (3 foot) tarpon, a string ray with a black fish swimming on one of it's wings. Worm-like things (4 - 5 inch) that stick out of the sand and go back in when you get near. Also a magenta "flower" with 10-12 arms about 1 1/2 inches long that disappears when disturbed. Saw several tunnels and passages, including one we recognized from a Cathy Church picture. Cost was $14.40 Cayman ($18 US) for both of us - 4.80 for tank, 0.60 for weight belt, and 0.20 per pound of weight (10 for me, 8 for Caroline).
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Tortuga Divers - Grand Cayman
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Xanax - Grand Cayman
(none)
36ft flattop 3-hull catamaran
50ft? flattop 2-hull catamaran house boat
48ft 1-hull 2-level
45ft? 1-hull 2-level
26ft flattop 2-hull catamaran
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Caroline Crowle
Jennifer Koch
Martin Lichte
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Got the guided tour. Tunnels, caves, passageways. Several 2-3 foot tarpon. Two beautiful spotted eagle rays (very rare, supposedly). Good buoyancy. We swam through the tunnels, etc - see map. I used my primary dive light to look in holes. Caroline took the camera. Got a small scrape on back of my left ankle from overhang while swimming through a small tunnel. Impressive lightning/rain/wind storm tonight from about 19:30 to 21:30. Good thing our night dive plans didn't work out. We also planned a shore dive to Babylon for this morning, but got there about 11:30 (with Morritt's tanks), and decided the surf was too choppy, and the dive site was too far of a swim, and we didn't know about the current, so we didn't even try.
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Martin Lichte
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Divemaster Mickey was supposed to be excellent - we got Ian - pretty new as a divemaster. Not a particularly good tour. A couple of new divers were weighted wrong - we wasted about ten minutes waiting. This was supposed to be a passage to a wall. We didn't get to do the passage and only had a couple of minutes on the wall. Fifteen divers, two divemasters. Good buoyancy. Fair amount of current and surge - staying near the boat required effort. Sea was a bit choppy - stomach was a little queasy until under water. Caroline saw a turtle. Dive profile was supposed to be multilevel 100 and 75 foot for 30 minutes - didn't do it - bummer. Multilevel on the Wheel: 1@72:PG-A, plus 7@65:PG-D, plus 8@50:PG-H, plus 15@35:PG-L, plus 5@SS. A letdown for our last dive trip - would not recommend this dive operation.
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Tablerock Lake, Missouri
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36ft flattop 3-hull catamaran
50ft? flattop 2-hull catamaran house boat
48ft 1-hull 2-level
45ft? 1-hull 2-level
26ft flattop 2-hull catamaran
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Caroline Crowle
Jennifer Koch
Martin Lichte
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Same boat and trip as dive 23. Located between Split Rock and Morritts, possibly near Black Rock. Good coral and vegetation. Many small fish, some larger parrot fish. Active surge and pockets of strong current - vegetation bent way over. Waited again for new divers. Stomach was a bit queasy. Got in the water - stayed on surface for a couple of minutes - shouldn't have done that! Lost breakfast. Multilevel with Wheel: 1@61:PG-F, plus 5@60:PG-I, plus 15@50:PG-O, plus 10@40:PG-R, plus 10@35:PG-T, plus 5@SS. Ears mostly OK now - cold gone?
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Tablerock Lake, Missouri
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36ft flattop 3-hull catamaran
50ft? flattop 2-hull catamaran house boat
48ft 1-hull 2-level
45ft? 1-hull 2-level
32ft Erikson 1-hull sailboat
26ft flattop 2-hull catamaran
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Caroline Crowle
Jennifer Koch
Martin Lichte
Notes:
Sunset cruise and dinner with Captain Danny Phillips (just the three of us). I steered the boat out of the harbor into the bay on the small engine. Danny set the sails, and I got to steer halfway out to Stingray City. Cruise was 17:30 to 20:00. Got to dive site and snorkelled for 30 minutes. Saw large green moray eel again (see dive 17). Also flounder, sting rays, a spotted eagle ray, a trumpet fish, and schools of various fish near the reef. Returned to the boat - Caroline dove 12-15 feet to retrieve a conch shell. Had an EXCELLENT dinner as Danny sailed us back - Jerk Barbecue marinated African Pompano fish - very firm and tasty. Also plantains in butter and brown sugar, a pasta and broccoli salad, and yellow rice, with almost-frozen slushy fruit punch. All food was EXCELLENT. Got a few mosquito bites sitting on deck coming into the harbor. Cost was $50 US each plus $20 tip. Highly recommended.
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