Little Cayman and Cayman Brac

Little Cayman and Cayman Brac are the two smaller and less visited islands of the Cayman Islands group, lying roughly 80 and 90 km northeast of Grand Cayman respectively. Together they form a distinct coastal territory: quieter, wilder, and less developed than Grand Cayman, with the emphasis on reef diving, bird watching, and the particular character of small-island life in the Caribbean. Little Cayman has approximately 200 permanent residents and a single paved road running the length of the island. Its principal marine feature is Bloody Bay Marine Park on the north coast, where a fringing reef begins at 6 metres depth and the wall drops to approximately 1,800 metres — one of the most vertical and least silted wall dives in the western Caribbean. Booby Pond Nature Reserve on the south coast hosts the largest red-footed booby colony in the western hemisphere. Cayman Brac is named for its defining geological feature: The Bluff, a 42-metre limestone escarpment that runs the length of the island's eastern half, dropping to a sheer sea cliff on the north coast. The ironshore coastal formations on both islands are characteristic Cayman geology — razor-edged limestone eroded by wave action over millennia, impassable without footwear. The mixed semidiurnal tide for both islands runs a spring range of roughly 0.4 to 0.6 metres. Tide data comes from Open-Meteo Marine gridded model — accuracy within plus or minus 45 minutes on timing and 0.2 to 0.3 metres on height.