After the beach I decided to sneak in two more dives - our flight wasn't until late in the afternoon the next day and I calculated that I'd still be safe to fly without having to worry about my heart exploding. (Even though airplane cabins are pressurized, they have much less pressure than sea-level. If you any nitrogen left in your blood that hasn't been aspirated, you might be fine at sea level, but getting on a plane could give you the bends or even a deadly blood embolism!) Anyway, here's a map of my second-to-last dive: Three Sisters!
I took this (bad) photo of the dive map hoping I could reference it on my camera if I go lost! (We were only diving to a depth of 20', so I'd always be able to just surface if I lost my orientation - but that's for cheaters!)
I got up bright and early on Wednesday morning and headed out on the boat for a three-dive trip! The first (and deepest) dive of the day was at a dive spot called "Babylon." Here's our divemaster walking us through a map of the site.
Even though Grand Cayman is the largest of the Cayman Islands, it's still pretty tiny. (It's around 200 sq. km. which is about 2.5 times the size of the island of Manhattan). The airport is the green "x" on the map and Compass Point is the red "x" which turned out to mean that it really was far away from the touristy hotels and was out in the middle of nowhere! It was only about 20 or 25 miles away, but because the only road was really twisty and windy, it took us about 40 minutes to drive out there!
Since August is pretty much the down-season and they had a lot of vacancy, they ended up giving us a double unit that had a full kitchen, living room (with a sleeper bed), 2 bedrooms and two full bathrooms! All of this right on the water with a balcony overlooking the ocean!
For the geographically challenged, the Cayman Islands are three teeny, tiny islands located about 350 miles off the tip of Florida. They're south of Cuba and west of Jamaica.
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