Little Cayman 2009 Photo Gallery by Jim Markowich at pbase.com

Little Cayman 2009

Little Cayman Island marks one of the three spots where a steep, underwater mountain range breaks the surface of the Caribbean Sea, between Cuba and Belize (Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac are the others). As a result, it is surrounded by coral reef walls. Not being scuba people, the walls remained a deep, mysterious upwelling out of the blue. But being snorkel people, the shallower reefs were great fun. So was the chance to get up close with iguanas again, to watch frigatebirds and boobies engage in their bizarre relationship, to exult in a near absence of tourism infrastructure, to inhale whiffs of that fragrant, baked, floral air and to get some damned sun.

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Conch art, Pirate's Point Resort	Why they call it sea grape, Pirate's Point Resort	Can they make sea wine from it?	Backlit sea grape, Pirate's Point Resort
Preston Bay	Coconut palm branches, Preston Bay	Coconut palm, Preston Bay	Coconut palm frond, Preston Bay
Those damned burrs, Preston Bay	A grass, Preston Bay	Oleander, Salt Rock	The pier at Salt Rock
Limestone karst, Salt Rock	Chitons, Salt Rock	Like the way it droops in three parts	Gumbo limbo trees (West Indian birch or red birch) near Salt Rock
Gumbo limbo tree (Bursera simaruba)	Gumbo limbo bark	Don't know, but attractive	Path to the beach, Bloody Bay
Sun shelter, Bloody Bay	North Coast Road, looking east	Nickernut	Don't know, but it is quite red, eh?
Coconut palm (Cocos nucifera), north shore	Coconut palms, north shore	Lion Lizard, Little Cayman Research Centre	Screened-in patio, Little Cayman Research Centre
Broadleaf (Cordia sebestena) flowers	Noni fruit (Morinda citrifolia L.)	Rusted wreck, northeastern shore	Rusted wreck, northeastern shore
Tarpon Lake boardwalk	Red mangrove, Tarpon Lake	Tarpon Lake	Hermit crab
Is it safe out there yet?	Hermit crab about to walk on	Easterly Ponds, near Point of Sands	Westerly Ponds, near Preston Bay
Tri-colored heron in flight, Westerly Ponds	Egret, Westerly Ponds	Egret, Easterly Ponds	Egret take-off, Paradise Villa's lawn
Yellow-crowned night heron, Paradise Villa's lawn	Bleeding tooth snails (Nerita peloronta), south shore	plastic garbage on beach, south shore	Jim, beach, garbage
Southern Cross resort	Coconut portraiture.

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