Exploring the Brac by land and by sea

With just one tourist resort and just under = 2,000=20 residents, Cayman Brac is the epitomy of the laid-back Caribbean.

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The trail to Peter's Cave offers a birds-eye = view of=20 Cayman Brac's southern bluffs.=20

CAYMAN ISLANDS DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM=20

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GOING TO CAYMAN BRAC=20

=95 Getting there: = Cayman Airways=20 (800-422-9626,=20

caymanairways.com) flies from Miami to Cayman Brac, with one stop in = Grand=20 Cayman or Little Cayman, in under four hours, several days a week; on = other=20 days, you'll have to change planes and trips may take longer (flight = schedule=20 changes March 14). Round trip airfare starts around $385.

WHERE TO STAY=20

=95 Brac Reef Beach = Resort=20 (345-948-1323 or 800-594- 0843; www.bracreef.com) is a small, = family-owned=20 resort with 40 rooms, a restaurant serving creative island cuisine, and = many=20 amenities including a day spa, Jacuzzi, fitness center and scuba center, = kayaks=20 for rent and free bikes. High-season rates (January-August): $945 = (non-dive=20 package) to $1,195 (dive package, with two tank dives per day) for = 6-day,=20 7-night package, including breakfast and dinner, based on double = occupancy.=20

=95 Walton's Mango Manor Bed and=20 Breakfast (345-948- 0518, www.waltonsmangomanor.com) has five = rooms in=20 an old sea captain's home on the north shore near Stake Bay. High-season = rates:=20 $120-$130/day for a double room; $180/day for a 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom = villa with=20 kitchen.

=95 Brac Caribbean Beach Village = and Carib=20 Sands (866- 843-2722, www.866thebrac.com) on Cayman Brac's = south shore=20 offer one- to four-bedroom beachside condos that are simple, but have = all the=20 necessary amenities. High-season rates: $1,100-$1,600 for a one- to = two-bedroom=20 condo for a 7-night, 8-day stay.

INFORMATION

=95 Cayman Islands Department of Tourism, = 877-422-9626; www.caymanislands.ky.

=95 Sister Islands Tourism Authority, = 345-948-2252;=20 www.sisterislands.com.

=95 Nature Cayman, 345-948-2222, ext. = 4420;=20 www.naturecayman.com.

BY KARI J. BODNARCHUK

Special to The Miami Herald

CAYMAN BRAC, British West Indies -- With scuba gear strapped on, I = dipped=20 under the surface and drifted down to Snapper Reef, entering what felt = like a=20 whimsical pottery museum. Four-foot barrel sponges dotted the reef, = looking like=20 giant fluted bowls and vases on display. As I swam, two Caribbean reef = squid=20 fanned out their tentacles, pretending they were part of the soft coral, = while=20 parrotfish and a group of fairy basslets (dubbed ``Lakers'' for their = purple and=20 yellow color) darted beneath me.

At another dive spot called Piper's Wall, a ``swim-through,'' or = narrow=20 underwater chasm, took me through a garden of yellow tube sponges and = purple sea=20 fans, and deposited me on top of an underwater cliff, 100 feet below the = surface. Here, I had close to 150 feet of visibility into the vast blue. =

It had been six years since my last underwater foray, and I had = forgotten=20 what it was like to float among rainbow-colored fish and fanciful sea = creatures.=20 I had also forgotten the wild sensation of diving over the edge of a = wall, like=20 soaring into space.

I must have looked momentarily spooked -- maybe it was the = spread-eagle,=20 free-fall position I was in -- as I hovered over the void because my = buddy, Rob,=20 gave me a nudge and then seemed relieved to see a smile sweep across my = face. A=20 nurse shark glided past while we floated in liquid space.

Cayman Brac is renowned for some of the best diving in the world, = thanks to=20 great visibility -- up to 150 feet -- and a relatively small local = population=20 (just 1,822 residents, many of whom don't dive). There are fewer = tourists and=20 industries than on neighboring Grand Cayman, and the reefs are in good=20 condition.

The island is 12 miles long by 1 =BD miles wide (about the size of = Manhattan),=20 so none of the dives are more than a 15- to 20-minute boat ride away. = And the=20 comfortable temperatures -- 82 degrees in the summer and 77 degrees come = winter=20 -- mean you probably won't get chilled before dive time is up.

BIG BLUFF

What distinguishes Cayman Brac from its sister islands, = Grand Cayman=20 and Little Cayman, is its topography. A limestone bluff runs west to = east up the=20 middle of the island, serving as the island's backbone (``brac'' is = Gaelic for=20 ``bluff''), and reaching 140 feet above sea level at its easternmost = point.

The landscape drama is echoed underwater. Divers are drawn to ``The = Brac,''=20 as it's known to locals, because of the area's underwater walls, which = plunge=20 hundreds if not thousands of feet. The Cayman Trench, just south of the = island,=20 slices 21,000 feet into the earth -- the second deepest trench in the = world and=20 the deepest point in the Caribbean.

I spent a week on Cayman Brac in May, exploring the sights above = ground and=20 diving the area's reefs, walls and underwater wrecks.

The Brac has four wrecks, but the crowning glory is the M.V. Capt. = Keith=20 Tibbetts, a 330-foot Russian destroyer that was sunk in 1996 and has = since=20 attracted a diverse group of tenants: garden eels, groupers, stingrays,=20 pufferfish and Atlantic thorny lobsters.

If you've never been wreck diving, nothing prepares you for seeing a = ship=20 that large on the ocean floor. While my more experienced dive buddies = explored=20 the ship's engine room, missile-loading room and bridge, I floated = around the=20 stern guns, which were encrusted with fire coral. Then I swept down the = port=20 side and poked my head in a gaping hole where the bow had broken away = and=20 twisted 90 degrees onto its side.

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CAYMAN ISLANDS

With just one tourist resort and just under = 2,000=20 residents, Cayman Brac is the epitomy of the laid-back Caribbean.

BY KARI J. BODNARCHUK

Special to The Miami Herald

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