Stingray City - Grand Cayman - TravBuddy

Stingray City is the name given to sandbar a couple of miles of the coast of Grand Cayman where tame Atlantic Southern Stingrays congregate.
There are many charter boats that take tourists out (mainly Americans off the cruise ships!) to the sandbar where you can feed, stroke, and generally mess about with the stingrays. It is quite safe and the chances of being stung are remote. Snorkels, lifejackets, drinks and squid to feed them were included in my trip. A photographer was on board too and she was a hottie! Louana from Vancouver, I'll call you sometime!

I like boats and just cruising out on a catamaran was nice enough. Not everyone on board liked being around the stingrays but they are highly intelligent (unlike some of the other hysterical passengers) and loved to be stroked and fed, bit like a cat!

I didnt actually pay for this as it was done through my cousin but from what I heard it is around £25-35 and £5 for a CD of your photos.

Stingray City is an interesting experience. A boat takes you to a sandbar where hundreds of stingrays await. As soon as you hop into the water you are swarmed with stingrays and they do touch you! I remember my stepmother was covered with stingray hickeys from the experience.

We haven’t seen the Stingrays in Grand Cayman, so we thought this might be a cool adventure. We boarded a pontoon boat with about 25 other people and headed out to the Stingray City Sandbar. It takes about 15 minutes to get there. The sandbar is in the middle of the sound with deep waters all around. While we were there, 5-6 other boats were also vying for the stingrays’ attention. Lucky for everyone that there are about a hundred or so large stingrays hanging out here waiting to be fed. The water here is about waist high and very clear. The guide begins feeding the stingrays and they come over in droves. You feed them bits of squid. Just put your hand in the water and swish it around. They will literally climb up on your front or back to get to the food. They feel smooth and slick. It is really a cool experience. Shannon did not like the way they climbed on her and she became really scared and began to cry. What a shame. She wanted to get out of the water and she waited on the boat for the rest of us to finish. We hung out for about 45 minutes with the stingrays and then boarded the boat for the trip back. Its about a 3 hour excursion and costs around $20.