Virtual Travel-Little Cayman BWI

"I want to go back to the island" -Jimmy Buffett "Tin Cup Chalice"

Little Cayman, BWI. Our favorite island. It is one of three Islands comprising the Cayman Islands. It is located in the Caribbean Sea, approximately 60 miles northeast of Grand Cayman and five miles (8 km) west of Cayman Brac.

The first recorded sighting of Little Cayman, along with Cayman Brac, was by Christopher Columbus on May 10, 1503, on his fourth and final voyage, when heavy winds forced his ship off course. At that time, he named the islands "Las Tortugas" for the many sea turtles found abundant in the sea and living there. The islands were later renamed "Las Caimanas" for the rock iguanas (that were thought to be caimans) also found living there.

The first settlement on the island was in the 17th century when settlers or runaways, Indentured servants set up camps that would supply pirate & military ship convoys with fresh meat, as well as freshwater, Turtle, pigs, goats, and other poultry. There are freshwater springs that run underground in cavernous veins. After a raid by a Spanish privateer on April 14th, 1669, the settlements were destroyed and abandoned in 1671 and the island was not resettled until 1833, when Blossom Village was established by a few families, mostly with surname Ebanks, Bodden & Ryan. 

By the early 20th century, several hundred people lived and worked on Little Cayman and exported phosphate ore, coconuts, and marine rope made from the Silver Thatch palm tree. There were also schooners being built. The most famous settlement and harbor were on the coastline of the Bloody Bay were the famous Bloody Bay wall a few hundred meters out.

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