Their skin – grey and rough like best quality sandpaper on top, white and smooth like soggy lino on the bottom – rubbed against my flesh as feeding time commenced.
Intere-Sting: Visitors to the Cayman Islands can dive with stingrays
Luckily for me, it wasn’t pale British man on the menu. These Southern stingrays are harmless to humans; even if the two dozen that swarmed around us off the coast of Grand Cayman clearly weren’t backwards in coming forwards when it came to lunch.
Crystal clear: The Cayman Islands are surrounded by turquoise seas lapping flour -white sand
Stingray City, as this is called, is one of many nature hotspots on the Cayman Islands – a part of the Caribbean that is still British (a UK Overseas Territory) since the islands, Grand Cayman, Small Cayman and Cayman Brac, kept their ties with Blighty when their neighbour, Jamaica, claimed independence in the Sixties.
Cayman get it: The Islands offer an array of fine Caribbean beaches
I stayed at the top end of the west of the island at Cotton Tree, a fabulous set of four cottages lying only inches from the ocean. As I sprawled on the veranda, the local gardener brought me a basket of freshly picked bananas on my arrival before I headed down to the al-fresco massage bed, where a longtime Cayman resident from Britain called Denise gave me a rub down.
Travel Facts
A week in the Cayman Islands including four nights at Cotton Tree on Grand Cayman and three nights' half board at the Little Cayman Beach Resort, costs from £2,395 pp, including return flights with British Airways and transfers: Turquoise Holidays (01494 678400, www.turquoiseholidays.co.uk).
For more information on the Cayman Islands, see www.caymanislands.co.uk.
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