Little Cayman Marine Parks and Protected Areas

The Pentagon code-named their activities at the Gulf War in the early 1990s "Operation Desert Storm." I code-named my grand tour of the southern half of the USA in summer 1991 "Operation Caribbean Storm," as my ultimate destination of this trip was the Cayman Islands. 

What a surprise ... 30 years after my operation Little Cayman is nominated for a WHS! 

I visited the Cayman Islands mainly for scuba diving at Little Cayman. The Cayman Islands was (and still is probably) famous among divers for its underwater wall that goes straight down for two thousand meters. What it means is that the Islands are the tips of an steep underwater mountain range. 

After driving from Los Angeles to Miami I flew to Grand Cayman, the main island of the three islands that comprise the Cayman Islands. The other two, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac, are close to each other in location, but they are 100 km east of Grand Cayman. I stayed in the city of George Town, the main city of Grand Cayman as well as the whole Cayman Islands. 

Because it's such a distant past, although I remember the water was crystal clear, my memory of the dive tour isn't. Even though Little Cayman is 100 km away, I'm pretty sure my dive boat left from somewhere in Grand Cayman. So it must have been a speed boat. In order to make the most of the wall, you need to go down pretty deep, …