Dive Review of Southern Cross Club in
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Southern Cross Club, May, 2004, by Jim Chambers, GA, USA ( Reviewer 3 reports). Report 1093.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	This was our third trip to the Southern Cross Club (SCC), and we enjoyed it as much as our previous trips. Owner Peter Hillenbrand has a real gem of a dive resort. The cottages are simple, but they're comfortable and they're kept very clean and well-maintained, and the A/C works very well (a must for me!). Meals are served in a dining room in the main building, and the food is wonderful. If you have any special dietary issues, they're great at accommodating you (for example, my wife can't eat onions, so they don't use onions on her meals). While we were there on our last two trips, the annual Sister Islands cook-off was held, and SCC won the grand prize, which was no surprise to us. The SCC dive operation complements the resort. Dive crews are very friendly, and they clearly wanted us to have fun. They're extremely knowledgeable of the dive sites, and their dive briefings were very thorough. They ask you to go with the guided dive tour on your first dive, but after they're sure about your abilities, you can do your own dive if you like. Sometimes Deborah and I went off on our own, but sometimes we followed the divemaster when they promised something really good (and they always delivered). The reefs on Little Cayman are just as good today as they were when we started diving Little Cayman and Cayman Brac (our second-favorite place) back in 1989. Sea life is prolific, and sea turtles seem to get more abundant every year. We saw huge groupers and barracuda on every dive. The massive spur-and-groove coral formations are teeming with fish, and if you look hard enough, you'll see every manner of little critters, which are my favorite photographic subjects. I spent a lot of my time on my belly in the sand flats and coral rubble photographing the little guys, and I got some super photos. Deborah and I are not deep divers, but it's impossible to not love Bloody Bay wall. We've dived a lot of walls in the Caribbean and the Pacific, and nothing tops Bloody Bay wall! All-in-all, another great dive trip. There are cheaper places on Little Cayman, but we don't mind paying a little more for the Southern Cross Club. We'll definitely return many more times.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	All across the Caribbean, Fiji
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	choppy
Water Temp	80-82°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	0
Water Visibility	90-100 Ft/ 27-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
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	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Dive crews were very camera-friendly and took care to keep photographic gear safe. Dive boats did not have camera tables, but cameras were placed in large coolers filled with fresh water. If there were too many cameras, they put more coolers onboard.

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

Southern Cross Club, May, 2004,

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