Little Cayman March/Apr 2007
My seemingly annual trip to LC was a blast from the past as expected. I was supposed to be there for 11 days but I managed to stretch it out into 15! It was very windy the whole time I was there but of course it was warm and sunny so having to dive on the less-spectacular south side of the island most of the time was a minor inconvenience for all the Fun (with a capital F) that was had.
My sister Kathy celebrated a milestone birthday at the beginning of the trip, Paul quietly made his 200th dive (he didn't tell anyone as we would have done something fun (for us) like throw him in the water with a heavy weight belt...), I was able to relive my legend days by helping out on Sea-Esta, Ann survived a gnarly finger-bite from a brown recluse spider, Ben nearly lost 2 fingers mooring the boat, the local rooster was voted to the dump to crow as much as he likes with his mates, Caleb left the island 'for good' for the 7th time (yeah, right), the island lost its paramedic but nurse M-E renewed her contract for 2 more years! And so much more.... Amazing what can happen in such a short time on a speck of land with 150 inhabitants in the middle of the north-western Caribbean Sea!
Here is a glimpse of some of the "good times, good times" as Swaby always says...
Paradise Divers Team 2007
How the team barely changes over the years.... Ann, Marc, Mathieu, Sabine and I taking refuge from a brief rain storm. If Vince was there instead of Mathieu (and our teeth weren't quite as long) it could have been 2001 :-)
Southern Cross Friday night beach bash
Check out the amazing sunset at the SCC dock party... love the way the sun reflects off the tidal flats!
A couple of shots courtesy of Mary Ellen
Caleb, John and Peter
Breezy, Peter, Mary Ellen, Suzanne, me
Villa 1 Iggy - yet to be named and Kathy and Paul in their usual afternoon hangout - the hammocks!
Caleb, Ron and Addy toasting Liz who we all missed hanging out with at Beach Nuts bar. Go Flyers! Oops, sorry too late... I know, too late for the Leafs as well:-(
Ben's long but humorous dive briefing...
Below are a few shots that I took on the odd dive that I managed to take my camera down with me, and no I didn't flood my camera this trip!
There is one of many squid that we saw while diving the south side most of my trip!
And our Little Cayman reef resident the pipe-horse... supposedly rare sightings these days but we found 4 different ones...
A red and white striped ribbon worm - a new species for me!
The beautiful juvenile yellow-tail
damselfish which grows up to be much less brilliantly-coloured and does indeed eventually develop a yellow tail...
A peacock flounder hiding on the sand.
Lastly and most excitingly, Ann found this white seahorse on Black Hole! Bravo!
