Darnold9999
Contributor
Just got back form a week on the Nekton Cayman itinerary. Excellent trip, diving was great - 27 dives in 6 days. Upsides lots - only 11 divers on the boat with room for 36 we had more crew than divers! Great juvenile fish populations and lots to see on the macro side. Turtles everywhere.
The Grand Cayman dive sites were a little sparse with life and coral - OK but not special. The Bloody Bay sites on Little Cayman were by far the best. More to see, the walls were wonderful and the coral and fish plentiful. Could not wait to go back in the water at these sites!
Too bad the Cayman Brac trip is a requirement. The wreck we dove was OK but again just an average dive. I would really rather dive than spend Wed afternoon on Cayman Brac. I spend the PM sleeping on a hammock so there might be great sightseeing, but I would rather be diving.
Food was better on this trip than my previous trip on the Pilot. First week for a new chef so who knows if this will last. Not complaining about the previous trip, just that this was better. Morning cookies were different every day and the afternoon snack was excellent as well.
Crew was great, Nelson as Captain was superb - I will go back.
Love the Steel 95 tanks - lots of bottom time and diving with no weight is a dream. (I normally dive with 30# of lead)
I did manage to get close to seasick on the trip from Cayman to Little Cayman - took drugs to sleep for the crossing, but still was pretty rough (for me). Also had one site on Little Cayman that was a disappointment. Surge, not heavy, but there, the top of the reef at 50 feet most at 70 feet and the wall started at 90 +. All divers came up disappointed. Some including myself sat out the next dive (I was again a touch seasick - my own fault for editing pictures in a moving boat).
Pictures - these are my 9 best and then one of a Juvenile Trunk fish the size of a pea that was very cool, but I had the wide angle lens so could not get a good shot.
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/OrangeBall.jpg
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/TubeWorm.jpg
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/CuttleFish.JPG
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/FlatWorm.jpg
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/BlueSky.JPG
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/InYourFace.JPG
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/TubeWorm2.jpg
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/Anenome.JPG
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/PeekaBoo.JPG
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/TrunkFishJuv.JPG
The Grand Cayman dive sites were a little sparse with life and coral - OK but not special. The Bloody Bay sites on Little Cayman were by far the best. More to see, the walls were wonderful and the coral and fish plentiful. Could not wait to go back in the water at these sites!
Too bad the Cayman Brac trip is a requirement. The wreck we dove was OK but again just an average dive. I would really rather dive than spend Wed afternoon on Cayman Brac. I spend the PM sleeping on a hammock so there might be great sightseeing, but I would rather be diving.
Food was better on this trip than my previous trip on the Pilot. First week for a new chef so who knows if this will last. Not complaining about the previous trip, just that this was better. Morning cookies were different every day and the afternoon snack was excellent as well.
Crew was great, Nelson as Captain was superb - I will go back.
Love the Steel 95 tanks - lots of bottom time and diving with no weight is a dream. (I normally dive with 30# of lead)
I did manage to get close to seasick on the trip from Cayman to Little Cayman - took drugs to sleep for the crossing, but still was pretty rough (for me). Also had one site on Little Cayman that was a disappointment. Surge, not heavy, but there, the top of the reef at 50 feet most at 70 feet and the wall started at 90 +. All divers came up disappointed. Some including myself sat out the next dive (I was again a touch seasick - my own fault for editing pictures in a moving boat).
Pictures - these are my 9 best and then one of a Juvenile Trunk fish the size of a pea that was very cool, but I had the wide angle lens so could not get a good shot.
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/OrangeBall.jpg
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/TubeWorm.jpg
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/CuttleFish.JPG
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/FlatWorm.jpg
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/BlueSky.JPG
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/InYourFace.JPG
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/TubeWorm2.jpg
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/Anenome.JPG
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/PeekaBoo.JPG
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/TrunkFishJuv.JPG