Hog Stye Bay, George Town
"In 1922, the Cayman Islands were virtually unknown to the outside world, being little more than three small, isolated, low-lying limestone rock platforms, graced with sandy beaches and coral lagoons, floating lazily in an isolated corner of the Caribbean Sea. To a mariner, these Islands are the three highest peaks of the Cayman Ridge, a range of submarine mountains extending from the Sierra Maestra mountain range of Cuba, and running west southwest in the direction of British Honduras, with only three weathered tips of the submerged mountains emerging above sea level."
George Town Court House
"When he reached the barcadere, Joe dropped a small anchor off the skiff to keep her off the jagged rocks and jumped into the shallow water with his shoes held over his head. After he waded to shore, he put his shoes on and bounded up the rock stairway to Church Street and crossed over to the George Town Courthouse. Fifteen stairs and a moment later he entered the second storey Courtroom."
Cimboco Arrives in George Town
"In 1926, the Cayman Islands Motor Boat Company had built the 120 ton motor ship at the George Town yard on North Church Street in Grand Cayman. Cimboco (an anogram of the company’s name) was launched in 1927 and had become the only reliable freight, passenger and mail boat in Cayman history. She ran regular round trip service every three weeks between Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, Cayman Brac and Kingston Jamaica."
"But even with the focus on returning Caymanians, there was a throng of generally interested bystanders who made it a point to visit every arrival just to see what stranger might arrive to bring news and share stories of the outside world. Consequently, the crowd of spectators always far exceeded the friends and families of returning Caymanians. This day was no different."
"But even with the focus on returning Caymanians, there was a throng of generally interested bystanders who made it a point to visit every arrival just to see what stranger might arrive to bring news and share stories of the outside world. Consequently, the crowd of spectators always far exceeded the friends and families of returning Caymanians. This day was no different."
George Town Jail
"On Elgin Avenue in George Town, just up from the Court House, stood the Police Station and Jail. The Police offices were up a flight of outside stairs in a whitewashed, wood frame building sitting atop a carriage house. The jail, such as it was at the time, consisted of an attached ground floor roofless pen enclosed by a concrete wall, roughly twenty feet square in dimension. The surrounding masonry walls were no more than seven or eight feet high, topped with embedded shards of broken glass which had long since dulled and worn in the weather. In one corner of the jail enclosure was a tin-roofed shelter to provide cover for anyone who might be so unfortunate as to become an inmate. This honor, however, was reserved almost exclusively for the occasional drunk and rowdy citizen who breached the peace and needed some time to dry out."
2011: A Taste of Current Cayman Beauty and Serenity
