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Grand Cayman is the largest of the three Cayman Islands and is home to George Town. The island is known worldwide for it’s banks. This is also one of the better shopping places in the Caribbean and it is especially known for it’s watches and jewelry.
The economy relies on tourism a great deal. Some favorites include Seven Mile Beach, Stingray City, the turtle farm, butterfly garden, the Tortuga Rum Factory and Hell. This is also a great place for diving and snorkeling as the island features many reefs and walls, a few of them are accessible by swimming from the shore.
Like most islands in the Caribbean, the Caymans were “first sighted” by Christopher Columbus. He spotted this chain on his fourth and final expedition to the New World in 1503. He named the island Las Tortugas in honor of the many sea turtles. It was Sir Francis Drake who renamed the islands to their current name, the Cayman Islands in 1586.
The Cayman Islands are located in the Western Caribbean on an underwater ridge known as the Cayman Trench. Oddly, the islands are not featured on many printed maps.
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Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
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Aug 31, 2007 - Sep 08, 2007
Grand Cayman is the largest of the three Cayman Islands and contains the capital George Town. Towns on the island are referred to as "districts".   The island is a high-lying reef of "iron shore" (limestone fringes with numerous marine fossils), with the highest elevation a couple of feet above sea level. There is no natural fresh water (lakes, rivers, etc) on the island, so any fresh water needs must be met by catchments or desalination of seawater. The lack of rivers does however ac...
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Muah! - Grand Cayman
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Sep 09, 2007 - Sep 16, 2007
Pulling into Grand Cayman was quite suprising.  It was unlike any Carribean island I had visited in the past.  Gone were the lush hillsides and ever present were the stores, restaurants, banks and shipping piers.  This is not at all what I expected but I go into everything with an open mind and remain optimistic that today will be a great day. Today we scheduled an excursion which would take us on a 30 minute, 4 mile boat ride out to a sand bar known as Stingray Ci...
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Grand Caymen - East End
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Apr 02, 2006 - Apr 08, 2006
I figured since I was coming to Grand Cayman and everyone talks about the beauty of the Seven Mile Beach area, I should at least stay one night.  Hotels were more expensive and obviously much more crowded.  The beach was definitely beautiful but so much harder to appreciate when it's packed with people from end to end.  The main thing I noticed was the water was more calm because the winds were less on the western side of the island.  We stayed in a chain hotel (I b...
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Stingray city and Rumpoint
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Nov 08, 2006 - Nov 15, 2006
There was only one stop before Roatan, where we'd be disembarking, and that was Grand Cayman.  I had lived in Cayman 10 years before, so I was kind of interested to see it again.  It hadn't been one of my favourite places that I've been: too flat and overdeveloped for my taste, and there was such a segregation between the expats living there and the Caymanians, whichI really didn't like.  But it did have some beautiful beaches, and the stingrays are pretty cool.  We w...
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