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Summary: Jam-packed
Review: "Information nuggets... fill the pages of newest of the Alive Guide series. Authors Permenter & Bigley know their stuff. The book is jam-packed with travel
tips that include illustrated dive and snorkel sites, town and regional maps, happy hour beach bars and nightclub options.... Cayman Brac and Little Cayman
get plenty of ink as well. Tuck this in your carry-on, alongside a snorkel, mask and sunscreen." Travel Weekly
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Summary: Punchy
Review: A good book to take along. The text is punchy, with lots of factoids. A good list of Websites is given. Chicago Daily News
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Summary: Jam-packed
Review: I take my laptop with me everywhere. Last trip, I went to Cayman, and took this e-book with me.It led me to some great beaches and some awesome snorkeling and scuba diving. There are lots of great shipwreck dives, coral reefs, turtles, fish, and sting rays and the book does a pretty good job of outlining how to get to them. The highlight of my trip was Stingray City where the stingrays eat squid right out of your hand. I went scuba diving at sting ray city, but you can also just snorkel. The water was only about 20 feet deep and those sting rays will come to the surface and poke their nose at you for squid. It is pretty amazing. I have been scuba diving lots of places, but this island was the best diving I have ever seen. The wall is outstanding. This book helped map out some great companies and starting points for both diving and snorkeling. Cayman doesn't have a quaint island feel to it (lots of hotels). But this book did do a good job of outlining restaraunts and things to do on land. I was able to find remote trails and short hikes using the maps and descriptions in the book. If you are going to Cayman, this book can make sure you get the trip you are looking for.
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Summary: Jam-packed with travel tips
Review: Information nuggets... fill the pages of this newest of the Alive Guide series. Authors Permenter & Bigley know their stuff. The book is jam-packed with travel tips that include illustrated dive and snorkel sites, town and regional maps, happy hour beach bars and nightclub options.... Cayman Brac and Little Cayman get plenty of ink as well. Tuck this in your carry-on, alongside a snorkel, mask and sunscreen.
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Summary: "Conchs & Sea Turtles Alive!" by RexCurry.net
Review: Very informative and good photography as well. The book reveals that sea turtles are farmed and available to eat in restaurants in the Cayman Islands. As an attorney, I am asked if there is a legal way to eat sea turtles in the U.S. and I know of no way, and the government will jail someone for a felony for merely handling a sea turtle. If you are a U.S. citizen, then you can legally eat sea turtles only if you leave the U.S. to visit countries that are more libertarian about turtles (e.g. the Cayman Islands). The book informs that Grand Cayman Island has a turtle farm with a petting zoo, and provides turtle meat for soups, stews and steaks at island eateries, and produces shells and other turtle products. Farms bring turtles closer to everyone's heart (inside the stomach). The journalist and historian Rex Curry has written about how the U.S. government imposed socialistic laws that almost destroyed the Cayman Islands turtle farm, and those laws still harm turtles in the U.S. and prevent turtle farms. Turtles are cold-blooded, but not as cold-blooded as bureaucrats. If you are from the U.S. and buy turtle products, then your government will confiscate your property when you return to your own country, and that is the least that your U.S. Customs will do to you. The U.S. wasn't always a socialist police state. Liberty helps turtles and the people who love them (to eat). The book also has info on conching (harvesting and eating conchs) another activity that is available in the Cayman Islands, but no longer possible in the U.S. even in Key West, the "Conch Republic" where all conch dishes are made from imported conch (imported from the Cayman Islands?). Yummy!
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