Stingray City Sand bar
Stingray Sandbar: Grand Cayman is one of the few locations in the world for an up close encounter with wild stingrays in their natural environment.
Stingray Sandbar is the most famous, a very shallow area where you can stand in waist deep water and interact with these amazing creatures. That’s what makes the World Famous Stingray City Sand Bar the number one attraction in Grand Cayman
To minimize crowds, we so suggest late afternoon for stops at this location after the departure of cruise ship crowds.
World Famous Stingray City Sand Bar: ” The number one attraction in Grand Cayman…
It may be that stingrays began gathering in the area decades ago when fisherman returning from an excursion, navigated behind a reef into the sound, and cleaned their fish in the calm water of the shallows and sandbar area. The fish guts and squid were thrown overboard and the stingrays eventually congregated to feast there. Soon the stingrays associated the sound of a boat engine with food. As this practice turned into a tradition, divers realized that the stingrays could be fed by hand.
Today, tour and excursion boats, along with private watercraft, gather at Stingray City in large numbers. There is a wide variety of companies that offer Stingray City excursions, which all have their own unique features. Passengers disembark and enter the chest-high water to interact with the stingrays. The boats’ proprietors bring along with them pails of chunked-up squid meat, which they dispense by hand to the animals, thus attracting dozens of the creatures to the feeding spot. Visitors can visit Stingray City and pet stingrays, while standing in only 3 feet of water. There are however growing concerns about alterations in behaviour, feeding patterns and general ecology of these rays, when compared to rays not receiving supplemental nutrition.