Grand Cayman

Wednesday 30th of January
Georgetown, Grand Cayman and "Stingray City"
We participated in a tour ashore visiting by boat a sand reef to dive, snorkel and swim with the Stingrays. It was a great experience, just fantastic.
Formal dinner, then after ever show, and then the Ice spectacular show, we have never seen better skaters doing an on ice musical.

George Town, Grand Cayman, is the capital of the Cayman Islands, in the British West Indies. The town has a population of 20,626 (1999 estimates).
George Town is the heart of the Cayman Islands financial industry, with over 600 banks located there. Most of these are small one room operations, some having no physical location on the island at all. It also has cruise ship facilities, a cargo dock and several shopping plazas.
Located in George Town are the offices of Government. These include the; Legislative Assembly, Court Houses and the Government Administration Building. The Government Administration Building houses the offices of the Leader of Government Business and other members of Cabinet, the Chief Secretary and his staff and other elected officials and Civil Servants.

Stingray City is a series of shallow sand bars found in the North Sound of Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. It is a popular tourist attraction where southern stingrays are found in abundance and visitors can feed, pet, and interact with the animals.
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1 Location
2 History
3 Getting there
4 References
5 External links
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[edit] Location
Stingray City is located in the shallow waters of the northwest corner of Grand Cayman's North Sound. It is just inside a natural channel that passes through the barrier reef and consists of a string of sand bars that crosses the North Sound from Morgan Harbor to Rum Point.
Stingray City and a second site near Rum Point Channel called Sandbar are known throughout the world and have been featured on prestigious television documentaries and seen as underwater advertising backdrops for everything from automobiles to batteries.

[edit] History
Local legend has it that the stingrays began gathering in the area decades ago when fisherman would return from an excursion and navigate behind a reef into the sound and clean the fish in the calm water of the shallows and sand bar area. The fish guts were simply thrown overboard and the stingrays eventually congregated to feast on the discarded guts. Soon the stingrays began to associate the sound of a boat engine with a free meal. As this practice turned into a tradition, local divers realized that the stingrays could be fed by hand. In 1987, Skin Diver Magazine sent a reporter to do an article on this anomaly which fascinated the world.