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Southern Cross Club: "Return to Little Cayman's Southern Cross Club", Jul, 2023, by Jeanette Hartshorn, MO, US ( Sr. Contributor 22 reports with 17 Helpful votes). Report 12771 has 1 Helpful vote.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	My husband and I enjoy the warmth, friendliness and seclusion of small resorts on small islands. We’ve also dived on the Cayman Sister Islands of Grand and Brac, but we prefer Southern Cross Club on Little Cayman to some of the larger resorts found on the Sister Islands or on Little Cayman. We really enjoyed ourselves and the diving when we stayed with Southern Cross Club 5 years ago and this year it was time to go back! We stayed in the Veranda suite, same as 5 years ago. It’s roomy with a big porch and sits under the canopy of trees so in the summer months it’s not quite so hot. Breakfasts are nice buffets with an egg station; lunches are also buffet and themes change daily. Some dinners are themed buffets (Italian, Indian and others) and other nights are plated dinners. Breakfasts were always tasty and plentiful. On some days when we returned from our morning dives a little later than the other boat of guests, the lunch buffets unfortunately were picked over and the selection of food was a bit more limited. Dinners were always plentiful and some tastier than others. I learned that pasta dishes were a safe bet. Fish dishes were not fresh fish and not so tasty. One night per week the resort brings in researchers from the marine research organization located on Little Cayman known as the Central Caribbean Marine Institute to lecture on different topics. During our week, they talked about Stony Coral Disease and how it can easily overtake a reef. Unfortunately this disease has taken hold on Grand Cayman (and other places in the Caribbean) so it is critically important to sanitize gear between dive destinations in order to help prevent or slow the progression of this lethal disease. For part of the week we were diving there, one of the neighboring resorts’ boats was out of commission so we had additional divers onboard from that resort. We also had additional divemasters from that resort. That made for crowded dive boats. Our dive groups stayed to about 8 divers per group though. The divemasters switched around on the groups so over the week’s course of 17 dives, we had 6 different divemasters. I don’t mind a few different divemasters over a week’s time, in fact I expect it, but 6 is a lot. As divers we need to get to know their style and as divemasters they need to get to know us. Over 6 days, we had between 1-3 dives per divemaster and 1 divemaster for 4 dives. Weather was good while we were there so we were able to get over to Bloody Bay Wall for the week. We opted for the 3 dive per day package with a 2-tank morning dives and a 1 tank afternoon dive. After all, we’re here to dive! The reefs appeared to be mostly healthy with a couple of sites showing some decline. We saw plenty of fish and critters and Mike the Head Divemaster enjoyed pointing out the small stuff to us – like the green algae crab. You’d never notice it without his eye. Some of our favorite sitings include the silversides! -which aren’t typically at Little Cayman, black jacks, horse-eyed jacks, chubs, seahorse and pipehorse, hamlets, reef squid, burrfish, a pair of porcupinefish that behaved like long time pals, lots of lobsters, several reef sharks, lots of hawksbill turtles, and plenty more. The afternoon dives typically had fewer divers, which we delighted in. On one afternoon dive, my dive buddy and I were the only divers, and the divemaster asked if we were interested in doing a drift dive over several different sites. (Their typical profile is moored, not drift.) We said YES! The profile was along the top of the wall, with the blue on one side and reef and sand on the shallower side. It was stunning! It was a site/ area they don’t usually do with the dive groups as there is a bit more current and many of their guests don’t like the current. It was on this dive that we were blessed with the sitings of a shy hamlet and a loggerhead turtle. The loggerhead allowed us to approach slowly and hang out with him/her for several minutes. If we were a larger group, I’m sure we wouldn’t have experienced this. We never know what to expect when we dive the Caribbean anymore as its health is in decline. But it looks like Little Cayman is still fairly healthy and a place we’d like to return to.
Websites	Southern Cross Club
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Bahamas, Bimini, Grand Turk, Florida, Atlantic, Mexico, Cayman Islands, Belize, Roatan, Utila, Dominica, Saba, St Maarten, St Kitts, Indonesia, Maldives, Hawaii, Palmyra Atoll, Cocos Island, Galapagos
Closest Airport	Little Cayman	Getting There	from Grand Cayman or Cayman Brac
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	85-86°F / 29-30°C	Wetsuit Thickness	1
Water Visibility	50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	no deco; stay with Divemaster
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	a rinse bucket for UW cameras onboard dive boat. There was a rinse tank at the boat dock but it wasn't clean. Safer to rinse again in your room.

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Dive Review of Southern Cross Club in Cayman Islands/Little Cayman

Southern Cross Club: "Return to Little Cayman's Southern Cross Club", Jul, 2023,

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Dive Review of Southern Cross Club in
Cayman Islands/Little Cayman