Little Cayman Diving Holidays
Little Cayman is the smallest of the idyllic island trio that make up the Cayman Islands. This is the place to experience laid-back Caribbean charm at its best, with the added bonus of world-class diving that keeps us coming back for more.
When a group of adventurers opened the Southern Cross Club resort in 1958, the island was home to just 12 people. Now, after a population explosion (if you can call it that), there are around 170 year-round residents. Safe to say, Little Cayman continues to be one of the least developed (and safest) tropical islands in the western hemisphere.
The world-famous Bloody Bay, located off the north shore of Little Cayman, offers some of the best wall dives in the Caribbean. It's a perfect vertical drop-off that plunges from within six metres of the surface to depths of more than 900m. The late French oceanographer, Jacques Cousteau, claimed that this one of the most dramatic walls he knew - quite the accolade from the inventor of the aqualung. Visibility here is usually excellent - often in excess of 30m, thanks to the absence of run-off from the shore - and the steep nature of the walls allows for all kinds of diving, from beginner to advanced.
To the right of Bloody Bay Wall is Jackson's Bay, famous for its exciting swim-throughs that lead you from an inner sand belt, through the patch reef and into the big blue. This section of the wall isn't as steep as Bloody Bay, but its more rugged bottom creates a fantastic landscape, with hundreds of crevices and tunnels.
