Cruise Port Grand Cayman

19/02/2024

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07/09/2023

26/02/2023

Planning an excursion on your cruise? Sunscreen is important, but don't fall for the hype on the expensive "Reef Safe" sunscreens.

Even the "Reef Safe" sunscreens still contain other damaging chemicals. The 8 worst offenders to our reefs are Oxybenzone, octinoxate, octocrylene, PABA (Aminobenzoic Acid), enzacamene, octisalate, homosalate, and avobenzone.

WHAT SHOULD YOU DO? All sunscreens, including those labeled "Reed Safe" recommend waiting 20-30 minutes before entering the water, after applying it. This gives those chemicals time to bond the sunscreen to your skin, then dissipate.

Use whichever brand you prefer, and put it on before leaving the ship and during your breaks from the waters.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please use creams and lotions. The sprays will get on our sand and rocks where they do not dissipate and get washed out to sea with the tide.

Spray on sunscreen is a danger to our marine ecosystems.

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25/01/2020

Why are island vacation locations opposing single use plastics, plastic straws, and other plastic waste?

We cannot afford to allow "convenience" to destroy our paradise.

An enormous floating device designed by Dutch scientists for the non-profit Ocean Cleanup successfully captured and removed plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

15/01/2020

Royal Caribbean announced the opening of a private " Royal Beach Club" for their passengers in Antigua. This follows the private "Perfect Day" in Bahamas.

Cruise passengers will go directly to the private beach and spend there, allowing Royal Caribbean to keep all the tourism dollars. This means Caymanian businesses will see less dollars and cruise lines will be richer.

It is time for everyone in Cayman to join together against the destruction of our home. Caymanians, expats, visitors and everyone who loves these islands will play a part in saving the people from corporate greed.

Royal Caribbean will open its first Royal Beach Club in Antigua in 2021, available only to passengers of Royal Caribbean cruise ships. The Royal

31/05/2019

When you visit, please be as gentle and loving to our marine life as they will be to you. Taking a stingray or starfish out of the water causes incredible pain and drives them into shock. Is your selfie worth the death it will likely cause?

02/08/2018

The sargassum sea grass has had an affect on many Caribbean destinations. Seven Mile Beach and the west side of Grand Cayman is free of sargassum. Rum Point had been mostly cleared and Kaibo is in good shape.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/mysterious-masses-seaweed-assault-caribbean-islands

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Scientists scramble to explain unusual bloom of Sargassum

27/06/2018

Is your cruise ship coming to Cayman Islands? The cruise port of Grand Cayman sometimes gets very busy. You can use this port schedule to determine how quickly you may need to book an excursion.

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** All times are local Cayman Island time. **

26/06/2018

"Cayman Snow" as many of us call it are actually the Great Southern White butterflies.

An explosion in the population of white butterflies in parts of Grand Cayman is providing a stunning display of nature.
On Manse Road in Bodden Town and in parts of Prospect, thousands of small white wings filled the air last weekend. They could be seen hovering over various types of plants and fluttering away in bursts at the first sign of any disturbance.

Cayman Islands native plant and butterfly expert Ann Stafford said sometimes during the year, the islands get a lot of these Great Southern White butterflies, which hail primarily from Florida, the southern U.S. East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico. One of some 50 species of butterflies found in the Cayman Islands, the species is currently very prevalent here, according to Ms. Stafford.

“They’re not going to eat anybody’s garden plants, unless you have a particular shrubbery called ‘Bloody Head – Raw Bones’ in your garden. The butterflies adore it,” Ms. Stafford said. It is one plant she grows specifically in her garden to entice butterflies, she said. To identify the butterflies and their plant source, Ms. Stafford made a special trip to Manse Road Monday evening.

“The reason you have so much butterflies in this area is because there is lots of larval food plants: Bloody Head – Raw Bones,” she said. “Southern White butterflies also love to feed on the nectar of several common plants that grow wild and in gardens on Grand Cayman.”

According to Ms. Stafford, the Great Southern White butterfly, Ascia monuste, has several larval food plants in Cayman, such as headache bush, jasmine and nectar plants, and this could be one of the causes for the growing population of the butterflies locally. A lot of the butterflies are also migratory, she said.

The butterflies have a specific larval food plant, where the adult butterfly lays her eggs and on which the caterpillars feed when they hatch. The Great Southern White butterfly sometimes has large population outbreaks that spread throughout its range – the southern United States, through Central America and the Caribbean, into South America as far south as Patagonia, according to Ms. Stafford.

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