Little Cayman Island
Frequently Asked Questions
By tender, near Blossom Village. Large ships pass by offshore: only small vessels and a few expedition ships anchor here. From your first steps on the landing, it is the quiet that surprises you, even more than the heat.
Sixteen kilometres long by two wide, fewer than two hundred residents, a grass airstrip and not one traffic light. Road signs even remind the few drivers that iguanas have right of way.
Blossom Village on foot, the Booby Pond reserve with binoculars, then a swim or a kayak out to Owen Island. This is a call about nature and slowness, with no monuments and no shopping.
An underwater cliff on the island's north side that drops vertically toward depths of nearly two thousand metres. Its top sits at barely five or six metres, so even beginner divers and snorkellers can see the giant sponges and turtles.
Yes, local operators run half-day trips that fit a call, in water with visibility often beyond thirty metres. Book before arrival: the island has few spaces and virtually no taxis.
The largest red-footed booby colony in the Caribbean: around twenty thousand birds, shadowed by some three hundred and fifty frigatebirds. This Ramsar-listed wetland is watched from the National Trust terrace, binoculars in hand.
By kayak, about fifteen minutes from Blossom Village across South Hole Sound lagoon. You land alone in the world on an islet of sand and scrub, mask and snorkel in the bag.
At Point of Sand, on the island's eastern tip, facing Cayman Brac eight kilometres away. The pale sand shifts colour with the sun's course, and the beach is nearly always empty.
The Cayman Islands dollar is legal tender and US dollars are accepted everywhere. Driving is on the left. Taxis are all but nonexistent: book diving and kayaking before arrival, or the day will stop at Blossom Village.
Water, hat and sun protection, without exception. The island has very little infrastructure: a general store, a few dive shops, and that is about it. Do not count on picking anything up along the way.
