Stingray City Cayman Islands

Stingray City Cayman Islands is an area in North Sound where wild stingrays gather to be fed by vacationers. 

It’s a Cayman Islands must-do activity but if you can’t bring yourself to swim with wild stingrays, it’s almost as good as a must-see event.

Just watching your fellow vacationers passing out raw seafood to a whirling mass of stingrays, is worth the boat trip.

Stingray City is one of two places to feed stingrays in the Cayman Islands, the other is Sandbar.

Stingray City is deeper water than Sandbar so you need to be a more confident swimmer. Both locations are, so the story goes, where fishermen would clean the fish before landing their catch on shore. Stingrays congregated for this daily free meal — a sort of stingray soup kitchen. Today, the ‘catch’ is visitors and they pay to hand feed the stingrays. 

Depending on the trip you take, you can snorkel at Stingray city and nearby, as this video from Kasey at Sunplay.com shows

Top Snorkeling Spots: Stingray City, Grand Cayman

Getting to Stingray City Cayman Islands

Both Stingray City and Sandbar can be fitted into a day long excursion from a cruise ship though it would be hard to fit both into a short visit as it takes some time to get there. I’m sure your cruise will have an excursion to at least one of the two sites.

Many of the trips to feed stingrays include snorkel stops at the reef, such as the Aquarium and Coral gardens, both mentioned in the video above so be sure you watch it.

Here’s the Red Sails catamaran surrounded by swimmers. Red sails is probably the biggest watersports company on the island and most hotels have access to their booking office — if they don’t have an office right on site.

But there are plenty of locally owned boats, such as this one. I like to use the local community whenever I can. Though Stingray City and Sandbar are two distinct locations, they’re very close to each other and both well inside the shallow waters of the Sound, as this picture shows. The beach is clearly visible and not so far away, which should give confidence to even the most nervous of visitors.

This is a truly unique experience. Feeding animals has become quite common in the world today but rarely do you get to feed wild and, potentially, dangerous animals like stingrays. So, if you visit Cayman, you really must take part in, or at least watch, this attraction.

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