Page 88 - Demo

Sports and activities
Why does anyone go to a concert when they can watch it on youTube? Why do you travel or do anything in person at all when it is more expensive, takes time, and needs complex arrangements? Because being there in person is real, it affects all of your senses: feeling, hearing, seeing - being surrounded in every dimension, being in the scene for real. So now the big question: if you have not yet scuba dived to see the most amazing views on earth, imagine
how incredible it would be to actually
float while breathing underwater.
Imagine swimming beside a
turtle, in person.
Here is a tiny sampling of the millions of unique things to enjoy while exploring underwater in the
Cayman Islands that
you can never do
above water!!
The first most amazing feeling is to actually float while breathing underwater. You can only know it when you experience it in person. Add it to your plans; it’s easy to do.
Even my 30 pound camera floats with me.
It is impossible to actually describe to you what it feels like to look down over the edge of the stunning walls around the Cayman Islands. It is like looking down from a tall building and then leaping
over the side and staying in suspended animation. Swim out into the open blue without falling and just float. You cannot do that any other way in the world – not even sky diving, because you cannot stop descending when you are high in the air.
People go to great trouble to maintain a fish aquarium. It is restful to look at. So imagine being in the aquarium, looking at beautiful fish, eye to eye. Fish are not dumb creatures. They are intelligent and have excellent memories. But there are fewer and fewer on the reef every year. When you see the same ones day after day like I do, they are like friends and hopefully will never be killed and eaten as food!
Everyone has a chance of seeing
a turtle during a week of diving and snorkeling. They are gentle, and, if you don’t move much, they will go about their business of looking for some delicious sponge or algae to eat and then go to the surface for a breath of air.
try thE mOst
amazINg
aDVENturE
by Cathy Church
I saw a turtle in Little Cayman. I had my legs bent up in front of me so that I would not kick the wall behind me. I stayed so still that the hawksbill turtle turned, swam right towards me, opened his ‘hand’ and grabbed my right knee as he pushed his beak against the dome of my camera and looked in. I took a sequence of photos
but enjoyed every second, knowing how special and rare this event was.
Everybody enjoys shipwreck stories, so imagine swimming around an actual shipwreck. Our most notable shipwrecks were purposely sunk to entertain divers. Although the Kittiwake is our largest and newest, I still like the little Doc Nicholson nearby. The choice is yours.
Eagle rays are always a treat to watch as they float along a Cayman wall.
Or be amazed by the shapes of marine worms whose ‘lips’ look like Christmas trees, or sponges that look like Halloween creatures or thrill when the tame nurse shark off Seven Mile Beach lets you pose with it. (Don’t worry - this sweetheart has a tiny mouth and no interest in people.)
86 | destination Cayman 2019