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| Jim Markowich | profile | all galleries >> Galleries >> Little Cayman 2009 | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
| Little Cayman Island marks one of the three spots where a steep, underwater mountain range breaks the surface of the Caribbean Sea, between Cuba and Belize (Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac are the others). As a result, it is surrounded by coral reef walls. Not being scuba people, the walls remained a deep, mysterious upwelling out of the blue. But being snorkel people, the shallower reefs were great fun. So was the chance to get up close with iguanas again, to watch frigatebirds and boobies engage in their bizarre relationship, to exult in a near absence of tourism infrastructure, to inhale whiffs of that fragrant, baked, floral air and to get some damned sun. |
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 Map of Little Cayman |
 New license plate |
 Welcome sign |
 Our unit, Paradise Villas |
 Sitting room, our unit, Paradise Villas |
 Front porch, Paradise Villas |
 Fulltime residents, Paradise Villas |
 By the house, Paradise Villas |
 Iguana on the steps, Paradise Villas |
 Near the shoreline, Paradise Villas beach |
 Iguana portrait, Paradise Villas beach |
 Sea fans and spiny lobster shell from our beach, Paradise Villas |
 Sea fans, Paradise Villas beach |
 Spiny lobster shell, Paradise Villas beach |
 Brain coral, Paradise Villas beach |
 Coral geometry, Paradise Villas |
 Sea grape (Coccoloba uvifera), Paradise Villas beach |
 Sea lavendar (Argusia gnaphalodes), Preston Bay |
 Gulf frittilary butterfly (Agraulis vanillae) on sea lavendar |
 Paradise Villas pool, toward sunset |
 Late afternoon |
 Cloudshow |
 Sea lavender, night |
 Sea grape, night |
 Sunrise |
 Booby Pond at dawn |
 Dawn over the island's only church |
 Booby Pond, early morning |
 Frigatebirds and boobies |
 Little Cayman Nature Center on Booby Pond |
 Once was a crab, Little Cayman Nature Center |
 Roosting magnificent frigatebirds |
 Frigate pinwheel |
 Three frigatebirds |
 Female frigatebird (Fregata magnificens) |
 Female frigatebird portrait |
 Young frigatebird in flight |
 Female frigatebird in flight |
 Male & female frigatebirds in flight |
 Male frigatebird, thinking he's sexy |
 Kleptoparasitism in action |
 Red-footed booby (Sula sula), white morph |
 Owlish-looking red-footed booby |
 Hovering booby |
 That's why it's called "red-footed" |
 Duck flock applying the brakes |
 Black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus), Booby Pond |
 Low flight of stilts, Booby Pond |
 Stilt lineup, Booby Pond |
 Hammocks, Pirate's Point Resort, Preston Bay |
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