Cayman Brac

Only 89 miles from Grand Cayman, this "sister" island is a world apart. There are no shopping malls, fast food restaurants or large business districts. The Brac has a friendly close-knit community of about 2000 residents.

The cigar shaped island is only 12 miles long and a just over a mile wide. Cayman Brac offers visitors natural beauty, fine snorkeling and fishing, some of the worlds best diving, comfortable overnight accommodations, good food, an endearing charm, enduring tranquillity and traditional friendliness that combine to create a gentle way of life that most of us long for.

There are several natural attractions on the Brac. Its majestic 140 foot high bluff is honeycombed with several pirate caves that merit exploring, and it sustains a spectacular variety of plant life, including silver thatch trees, saguaro cacti and century plants. If you're for the birds, you've come to the home of rare Cayman Brac parrots, brown boobies, man o'war birds, nightingales, peregrine falcons, little yellow bananaquits, mocking birds and more. There are nesting colonies of the brown booby and a walk across Cayman Brac is always rewarding. There is also a Parrot Reserve on Cayman Brac. A 3/4 mile looped nature trail gives the residents and visitors an opportunity to see, enjoy and learn about the natural environment of Cayman Brac.

You can tour the Cayman Brac Museum, browse around the numerous quaint shops, or ask directions to Long Beach and view the ancient rock formations and fossils. Cayman Brac is one island you will not soon forget. The island offers fine dining and there are a variety of restaurants offering caymanian cuisine to choose from.

Cayman Brac's diving is a main attraction, as the reefs are teeming with marine life of all descriptions. Enjoy many breath taking dive adventures unlike any others. The snorkeling and fishing on the island are also excellent. Stories of the one that got away are few - because people who come to enjoy the fishing are rarely, if ever, disappointed. If you tire of diving, fishing, hiking and the like, you can relax in solitude on one of Cayman Brac's quiet beaches.