Long time readers of my blog know that I have a lot of love for the East End of Grand Cayman.  The only thing I like more is diving in the East End.  There are only two dive operators and the dive sites are all in fabulous shape. And … at a few of the dive sites, an area they call “the corner”, there is a family of sharks that usually hang around.

On my dive this week-end with some friends, two of them joined us for our dive.  Luckily, one my my dive buddies had a GoPro camera (I know .. .I should get one …) and filmed the event.  At one point, one of them got to within 30 or so feet of us.  Such a majestic animal.  I want to stress … at NO point were they aggressive or did they shown any interest in us.  It seems like they may have been curious and just swam by to sort of say “hello”.  🙂

Here is the video.  Thanks to my friend Andrew.

On the second dive (when going out with Ocean Frontiers, the dive operator we were with its always a boat dive and we go for 2-dives), we did a Lionfish hunt.  At the end of the video you just saw, there is a beautiful Lionfish.  They are awesome looking, but an invasive species in the Caribbean.  We are encouraged to hunt them down!  Too boot, they are great to eat.  A lovely white meat not unlike codfish. They are hunted with a spear.  So between the 6 of us who were diving we got 10 Lionfish. Plenty for a dockside ceviche after the dive.

Here Cory is fillet-ing them. Note the spines are quite dangerous.  If they puncture your skin it (apparently) hurts a LOT. Glad he was doing this and not me!

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Our haul of Lionfish

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The final product.  Not that I did much a part from supplying a bag of tortilla chips! 🙂  It was very good. Lionfish, avocado, mango, lime & some other stuff (I’m a terrible cook, in case you had not yet noticed)

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So diving in the East was great and the water was calm.  In George Town : Not calm.  In fact the water us extremely rough.  This was taken right in front of Eden Rock.

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Another picture taken from the same location, but looking at town.  The waves crashing were so high, that some of the water was going onto the street.

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Its somewhat chilly right now in Cayman.  This morning on my way to the office I noted 22 degrees.  I will not say its cold, but for Cayman it sure is not very warm.