Just back from a quick vacation to Little Cayman island. Truly a dot on the map – the whole island is about 7 miles long and a mile wide. Only 150 locals and a couple hundred tourists are on island at any one time. It’s beyond laid back, with few attractions other than the resident iguanas and red-footed boobies (booby jokes abound).
Airport terminal/post office/fire station.
The big draw is diving – LC is the home to Bloody Bay Wall, one of the most famous dives in the Caribbean. The reef drops off like a sheer cliff, from 40-60′ to more than 1000′.
All the action is underwater!
(Let me know if you want to see more slightly blurry diving photos.)
“Fascinating, Holly. But what does this have to do with painted mulch?”
The extent of the landscaping for most yards: conch shells arranged in interesting designs and/or piles. But as we pedaled past a rather upscale condo, I came to a screeching halt. A gorgeous Bismarckia nobilis had caught my eye, but then I saw what was under it. Egad.
Everything comes to Little Cayman by a weekly barge or little prop plane and is wildly expensive. Four-pack of batteries? $15. A six-pack of beer is $20. TWENTY DOLLARS!!!
So, good readers, what we have here is possibly the most expensive mulch on the face of the earth. I can’t even imagine.
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Ample means and questionable taste make for interesting results 🙂
I would love to dish with you about the great diving on Bloody Bay Wall… SO much nicer than anywhere else in the Caymans! But this is a hort blog. Island gardens should keep their local mulches — shells, seaweed, locally mulched vegetation. I guess the folks here were trying to bring No. America to the islands. I don’t think any of the divers were looking for a little piece of home when they traveled to Little Cayman. Too bad the property manager wasted all of that time and expense.