Grand Cayman Day 7

Friday, May 7, 2010

Again, we started our day by getting up at 6:20 a.m. and getting our stuff ready to head to Ocean Frontiers for our final two-tank morning boat dive. When we arrived and checked in at the desk we were told there were only six divers on our boat, which was a very nice surprise. Normally there are about 12 divers per boat, which is okay, but six makes it a lot nicer.

Our first dive was at a dive site called Three Sisters. Again, this was our deep dive. We went to about 110 feet. There was a very strong current at this dive site that made it very challenging for all of us to get back to the boat, but we all made it back safely, just a little tired.

The next dive site we headed to was called Grouper Grotto. This was our shallow dive. We did several swim-throughs here and saw a bunch of Tarpon but nothing else out of the ordinary. I did manage to get some good video of a lot of fish swimming around on the top of the reef. The current was much milder here, which made it much easier getting back on the boat.

This was our final dive with Ocean Frontiers. We would definitely highly recommend them to anyone looking to dive on Grand Cayman and will definitely use them the next time we come back to Grand Cayman.

We then came back to the Inn and had some lunch and headed down to Sunset House to do another dive. Right after we got into the water we came across a very friendly turtle who let us get some really good video and photos. We then headed out to the mermaid and the ship wreck and then headed back toward shore. When we got most of the way back in we came across a very friendly Gray Angelfish. Eric was trying to take its picture and it was practically swarming him. According to some people we talked to,Cathy Church (well-known photographer with a shop at Sunset House) used to feed the fish, so a lot of them are very friendly and used to photographers.

After this dive we decided to come back to the Inn and get cleaned up and go out for a nice dinner since we had been well under budget for food this past week. We went and had dinner at Casanova's. We highly recommend it. It is not cheap, but the food is out of this world. Plus we had left-overs, so we have dinner for another night. It also has very nice ambiance. We dined on the patio right at the water's edge with the breeze blowing in off the water as the sun set into the ocean. What more could you ask for.

We met a very nice couple that was on most of our dives at Ocean Frontiers, Adam and Brooke, who were also very much into underwater photography. We made plans to meet them tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m. to do some shore diving. We are thinking we will probably return to Sunset House as the subjects (fish) there are very amenable to having their picture taken.