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| Jim Markowich | profile | all galleries >> Galleries >> Little Cayman 2009 | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
| 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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 Owen Island |
 Judging the distance to kayak |
 Little Cayman cemetery |
 Spare tomb"stones" |
 Marble headstones laid down in the sand |
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 Parasitic dodder (Cassitha filiformis) on red birch (Bersera simaruba) |
 Land snail on red birch tree trunk |
 Land snails on coconut palm trunk |
 Old giant agave, East Bluff |
 Silver thatch palm tree, East Bluff |
 Karst limestone landscape with dodder, East Bluff |
 Karst limestone sinkhole, East Bluff |
 Tree, limestone sinkhole, East Bluff |
 Sharp little buggers cover the east end of the island |
 The newly-laid road through the karst, East Bluff |
 Century plant (Agave parryi) |
 Century plants feature a fast growing, trunk-like spike... |
 ...that grows really fast and drains the plant of its energy... |
 ...so it only happens once in the plant's lifecycle. |
 Young giant agave, East Bluff |
 Wish we knew, East Bluff |
 Smooth-billed ani giving a shout out to the world, East Bluff |
 Wild sage (Lantana camara) |
 Plop nut (Thespesia papulnea) |
 Point of Sands beach |
 Fighting hordes of sun-bathers, Point of Sands beach |
 Coconut palms in the wind |
 Point of Sands beach |
 Battered license plate |
 Prop plane takes off |
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