Grand Cayman Island Vacation

Grand Cayman Island is largest of the three Cayman Islands located in the Caribbean Sea 480 miles south of Miami. Though discovered in the 1500’s, the Cayman Islands were uninhabited until the early 1700s. The Cayman Islands are now a British Overseas Territory.

Grand Cayman Island is a popular vacation destination. Temperatures seldom drop below 22°C (70°F) or rise above 32°C (90°F). Grand Cayman Island offers fine dining, lively nightlife, and luxury shops in the capital of Georgetown, a charming and beautiful community of approximately 20,000 people. Its streets are lined with historic buildings, small churches, memorials, and traditional Cayman-style homes.

Local Cayman Island Vacation Highlights

Activities

Grand Cayman Island is a world-renowned diving vacation destination. Its clear, warm waters are home to excellent diving and snorkeling sites. The Cayman Trench drops to a depth of 23,000 feet and visibility can range from 125 to 200 feet.

Dive sites around the island include:

Coral reefs
Shipwrecks
North Wall – sheer drop off, canyon ways, chimneys
West Wall – swim-throughs, canyon ways, tunnels and pinnacles
South Wall – deepest side, corals, pinnacles, swim-throughs
Stingray City - the World's Best 12 Foot Dive

Stingray City, on the island’s North Sound, is a unique Cayman Island vacation water experience – a feeding ground for stingrays. Because it’s in 12 feet of water it is great for both diving and snorkeling. The stingrays are very tame and they love the shallow sandy bottom in this area and in the nearby Sandbar site at the entrance to Rum Point Channel.

Other activities for your vacation in the Cayman Islands include:

Sport fishing
Windsurfing, sailing and water skiing
Golfing and tennis
Nature Viewing and Bird Watching

Attractions

As well as snorkeling, swimming, strolling and relaxing on the beach, Grand Cayman Island offers a myriad of vacation attractions:

Duty Free Shopping – an excellent selection of luxury items, such as jewelry, china, perfume and designer clothing, as well as local arts and crafts are available at duty-free prices.

The National Museum, situated in the Old Courts Building in George Town, exhibits the country’s natural and human history and tells the story of this seafaring culture.

Other Cayman Island vacation attractions include:

The Mastic Trail’s old growth dry forest
Pedro St. James Castle
Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park
Cayman Island Turtle Farm
Seven Mile Beach
Hell – an area of unusual black, jagged rock formations resembling charred remains believed to be 1 ½ million years old

Whether you simply come to lie on the world famous Seven Mile Beach or have an active getaway diving, hiking, sight-seeing and shopping, a Grand Cayman Island vacation will be truly unforgettable.