GRAND CAYMAN

It was January of 1998 that the big ice storm hit Montreal. It was also the month I chose to leave for Grand Cayman two days before the storm hit.

It’s hard not to love Grand Cayman and all it has to offer to a scuba diver. And it’s impossible not to love Stingray City. It can be a little overwhelming having Stingrays swim over you but well worth the visit.

The North Wall at Tarpon Alley is an incredible dive. At about seventy feet, there is a school of Tarpon, and I mean a large school, just hanging around and you can get within feet of them. Very cool.

The coral formations off the celebrated Seven Mile Beach make Grand Cayman a trip all divers should see at least once. Some of these formations are actual swim through coral tunnels that empty over the wall and are incredible. You enter at forty plus feet and exit at about ninety feet over the big blue depth of the Grand Cayman Wall.

And you can literally spend all day doing shores dives from just outside town or off the Sunset House Beach. Go there at least once... but while you are there, make sure you visit the smaller Sister Islands, like our trip to Cayman Brac, which, in my opinion, offers better diving overall and more peace and quiet.

And by the way, the ice storm was cleared up by the time I returned home and my power was on... never saw one day of ice.