Campers squeezed on limited accessible beach
(CNS): The local tradition of camping on the beach for the Easter holiday got underway this week, but with dwindling access to beaches on Grand Cayman, people are pitching tents toe-to-toe in the remaining accessible places. The Public Lands Commission is encouraging campers to check the guidelines and information on its website to ensure safe and happy camping.
PLC Chief Inspector Winsome Prendergast said the commission had “developed a comprehensive list of frequently asked questions along with answers in anticipation of any questions or concerns that the public may have in regards to camping”.
She continued, “To avoid any prosecution, I strongly advise the public to review, be aware and adhere to our camping guidelines. It is also very important for prospective campers to adhere to instructions, advisories and bulletins from the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service, Cayman Islands Fire Service and Department of Environmental Health.”
Camping on private land without the consent of the owner is trespassing. However, landowners are also reminded that the public can access and use any beach below the high water mark.
Police officers will also be visiting campsites over the weekend. Superintendent Brad Ebanks said community officers would be making regular visits to speak with campers to encourage safety and ensure that the peace is being kept.
“Our traffic officers will be showing a heightened presence on our roadways to encourage good driving behaviour with a particular focus on discouraging DUI and speeding,” he said, as he reminded drivers that the legal level of alcohol has been lowered to .07%. “There will also be increased patrols in residential areas.”
The police have issued various guidelines and crime prevention tips for the weekend here.
Campers are urged to keep the beach clean and tidy. There will be no garbage collection by the Department of Environmental Health (DEH) on Good Friday, and the landfills on Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman will be closed on this public holiday. Residential garbage collections will resume on Saturday, when the landfills will also reopen until 1:00pm.
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It must be so sad and hard for some of these people who came here and are being held hostage for so many years.! I mean the punishments they have to endure is unheard of. So I have decided to help them leave if they really want to. I have arranged for a fleet of cruise ships (200) to arrive in the Harbour on Sunday to take them all away. They will be taken to wherever they choose. I wish you well and trust that wherever you choose to go you will be a bit more appreciative. I do realise that most of you will not be returning from where you came so hopefully you will treat your host country with a bit more respect than you did here on our special 2×4 Rock Cayman. No worries, you will not be missed.
Take all day to work this idiotic writing out? Great work. I feel stupider after reading it.
Your negative response and thumbs down clearly shows me that you are the perpetrators of the great animosity and hate that too many of you have for us. My hope is that you will also reflect on it and and strive to be a much better guest while you are here. As an old saying goes, ” throw a rock in a hog pen and the one who squeals the loudest is the one who got hit”
If the cap fits wear it!
How sad you needed to voice that. Fortunately my experience vacationing here since 1984 is that you are a minority attitude. People like you are easy to avoid.
Anon @7:54 am
do you agree with all the rhetoric and putting down of our culture and customs? Since you have been coming here since 1984 you should know exactly how kind and accommodating we have been to you. It is sad that I have had to voice that, however I am sick and tired of insults and obnoxious attitude from those who live among us and do not hesitate to spit in our faces. I trust that my post does not apply to you but please understand that I have free speech and will defend my homeland and our way of life always. Please enjoy your vacation.
Actually my wife flies in tomorrow and I’ll join her on the 19’th. And 6 additional guests will come and go. Yes, I will certainly enjoy my vacation and will easily enjoy the company of Caymanians that appreciate my presence.
Hope you will be on your best behavior and don’t put down “the rest of us Caymanians.” Also hope you have enough presence to go around. Have fun my dear highly regarded full of presence person. Seriously I wish you well always.
Your sarcasm says a lot of your actual intent. As I stated initially, my experience has been that the vast majority of Caymanians are much more welcoming than you. Hence why we keep coming back – I have encountered few like you. A basket of apples always has a few with worms and rot – I choose to pass those by. Likewise, I prefer to socialize with Caymanians who are not rotting with bitterness.
As an American lurker here, do try to get over yourself.
Yer kind of a twerp, sir
I liked your comment. The truth hurts and that is why many people gave the thumbs down. NEVER be afraid to speak the truth. I will be happy to help with organizing the emigration of these ungrateful people off of our 2X4 rock.
Thank you Bravo. These people think that because they can buy a plane ticket and spend time st a condo that they can say whatever they want to and don’t get called out on it. I am sorry but thiis Caymanians is no pushover. Our people have been buying plane tickets and traveling to all parts of the world by plane, and ship for many many years. Wherever they went they had to abide by the rules of the host country. Now they come here and find something wrong with us, our culture, customs but they still want to hang around. I always made every effort to respect them and ignore them but when you give them an inch they take a mile. I have worked with colleagues from the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, England and of course our own Caymanians and always got on well with everyone because We respected each other. If they cannot respect us and appreciate the opportunity to be here, they know what they should do.
Please don’t send the whiney colonist that are American back home. We’re trying to deal with whiney, self entitled, bat crap crazy MAGAS at the moment
This too shall come to pass.
What happens every Easter is not a tradition, it is an infestation.
Take your hateful backside home and mind your own traditions!
*soapbox* f u and the horse you rode in on. I haven’t camped in 15 years but know your place
Says someone who has infested someone else’s homeland.
The hotels and condo trolls are working overtime to paint this as a terrible invasion.
How about those two years when Locals kept you in business with our Stimmie Cash?
Not me tho.
I knew youse from before, and now the hateful true colors are showing..
Will we be allowed to see a sunset or even breath the same air when your gratuitous allowances for rampant development continue? 25 stories high iconic towers?
TAX FREE imports to developers and ALL their contractors mean that the tourism industry is doomed.
Cue the cheap slave labor from India/Africa/Filipines/Jamaica etc. CI$4.50 per hour wages – minus the pension and health ins deductions!! – yall should he ashmdd
And Hey – MOVE the seawalls and give us back our Pristine Beaches Beaches!
If locals had any spines they would have stood by the Three West Bay Hero Ladies!
And thousands of expats who dont live on the beachfronts probably agree with you.
‘Locals’ helped businesses only because they got free money from the CIG. No real help. Sorry to inform you that you have no earned income to invest here. You did NOTHING!
As an American who doesn’t even live in cayman I would like to label you as an entitled gasbag. Go home and leave these people alone. Go on. Scat.
imagine telling people that got access to their pension fund that it’s ‘free’ money. your IQ must be in the negatives.
It’s time to start stockpiling breadfruits and madden plum bush and Mr hurry caymanians. And on another note bill up ya selves on fever grass tea and dem ole time bush. It is coming to pass that we need to be strong against the ungrateful suckers we let live amongst us. 🔥🔥🔥
Yes, stockpile maiden plum bush and make sure you put it all over ya skin. It good fa ya skin!
To all the naysayers discouraging Easter camping, get a life…..somewhere else! Yes, I went there! I’m as accepting as any, perhaps more than many Caymanians these days but that is just xenophobic!
Easter camping has been popular since the mid-sixties, evolving from Easter Monday beach picnics. Easter Monday was the traditional sailing boat regatta day and by the 60s powerboat races were being held.
Better mosquito control by the late 60s /early 70s (esp OFF) made the Easter Monday beach day start from Thursday.
So, it’s over half-century as a general practice, which was not necessarily “imported” (a la our “carnival parades”) – camping itself is as old and natural as mankind.
So for the xenophobes crying it down, I say shame on you! Accept at least one aspect of Caymanian lifestyle! Sadly though, you all will soon have your way too soon, disappearing locations as per the article.
BTW, before small minds think I have anything to gain, I don’t. I haven’t camped since I was a Sea Scout in the early 70s. My kids were raised on Easter “glamping” weekends between here and the Brac because my wife was too overprotective to accommodate nature.
But I defend the rights of the beach campers as long as they can!
But please clean up after yourselves!!
Easter camping was rare until the late 90s. You might have found a few people camping – maybe on South Sound Cay – before that, but it was a fraction of what it is now. To say this is a long-standing “Caymanian lifestyle” tradition is a lie. And if so many of the campers weren’t slob, leaving garbage, soiled diapers, etc. (I have personally seen it at Smith’s Cove) then maybe people would be more accepting. Yesterday, the police had ti go to Smith’s Cove more than once, so you can add unruliness to the “tradition” of Easter camping.
Thank you for this post. In too many instances, our history has been rewritten by newcomers who substitute nonsense like “camping is a tradition” for cultural facts.
You didn’t grow up here then. We were camping when I was a little boy. I was born in the 50’s.
I don’t know what your motive is for making up these lies, but I suspect you are employed by developers who would like to claim the remaining beaches for their own. Well, guess what? CIG may actually assist you. If that happens, then I hope you all are damned to hell for taking away one of the last few comforts of Caymanian (and recently others).
Why is camping being judged? Tell me who is hurt by this? NOBODY. Entitled rich beachfront property owners don’t like it, but are they harmed?
No, they are not. Guess what? The beaches belong to US. ALL of them, and we will use them as our ancestors did.
Dude – you must be old and forgetful then. There might have been some camping back in the 50s, when there were less than 10,000 people on a mosquito-infested island, but Easter camping was not a big thing like it has been for the last 25 years.
Old, yes, but not forgetful. Not yet. ;o)
So? What’s your point? Get a job… somewhere else.
The point, dear Watson, is that Easter camping wasn’t really some bog tradition that people are saying it was. It’s a relatively recent phenomenon, at least to the level it is now. I really don’t care if people want to camp out on public land for Easter (as long as they clean up afterwards) but just setting the record straight. No need to get nasty!
Beg to differ. I first moved to cayman in 1999 and knew about it the first year I was here. Plenty people camping then.
Bullshit. The family I used to camp with (I’ve stopped now I’m almost 60) camped on the same spot on the beach every Easter since the 60s. They only recently moved to a new spot now someone has built a mansion there and planted bushes all the way from the road to the waterline, making the entire beach completely inaccessible during spring tides. It’s the latter type of beach invasion we should worry about because it happens ALL year round.
we never camped in my life. never heard of it. my idea of Easter was regatta at Galleoan Beach.
The Easter camping seems like an ideal way for families and friends to be together. In fact, I would like it to be more often, as family ties are very important in these times.
I say this as an expat who isnt wealthy who loves the land and the people.
Thank you for that. Blessings. You and yours are welcome to enjoy the beach and waters in the same way as we do.
Peace.
I have lived in Grand Cayman since 1964 and I do not recall or this “camping tradition” being practiced over the Easter holidays. It has never been so! In fact most Caymanians went to church then, so please local press stop promoting this idea which generally leaves the beaches in a worse state than they already are.
Not certain where you have been living since 1964.It has always been an Easter tradition. This shows how you have mingled with the local population. The Archives will tell you about this tradition.
I moved there in 1999 and it was in full swing then. What’s your problem with it? Why not let people enjoy their own country?
You know what, only in Cayman these people would say the things they say about us. As someone once said “kindness can kill”. I do believe. Perhaps we were too kind and accommodating in the good old days. They took our kindness for weakness!! Grandpa told us this would happen.
Unfortunately, owning property and residing here in your own little bubble and actually knowing, embracing and partaking in the Caymanian culture are two different things. Whether it be camping on the Easter weekend or other cultural activities.
Obviously, you are of the former and that is the problem. There are two many of you who reside here and do not know OR want to know anything about the Caymanian culture yet you are the first to cry out about ‘I have my Status. I’m Caymanian’.
Shame on you and those like you.
4:42 you must be kidding. You have put yourself in a rabbit hole or wa. From the sixties and before Spotts beach, south sound and public beach were our destination at Easter. In GT Ms Dollys picnics at was one of the highlights of Easter. In Zsouth Sound you had tge Ramoon’s, Mcfield’s and Ebanks Myles and a host of other relative friends either camping out or coming by during the day and cooking, eating, playing dominoes swimming and having fun. The west bay beach was during those times used mostly by west bayers and later years as we sold our hand in SS and Prospectvwe moved to the seven mile beach and now yes even Smith Bacadere is now a worthy camping ground.
I been on ya almost as long as Methusalem ole boy and what is factual certainly is, so go back in ya hole ya hear!! SMH
Anon.@4:42 a.m.I suggest you check with your doctor. seems like your are in the early onset of dementia. While you are seeing the doctor also ask for a prescription for sleeping pills. What kind of person post such nonsense at 4:42 a.n. Anyway?
Hope everyone has an amazing Easter weekend! Please be considerate and take your trash with you. If you leave trash you are trash.
Well said!
question for the police-farce…..over the last 10 years how many fines for littering have you issued over easter weekends?
And how many hotel managers have the police warned, let alone arrested, for unlawfully trying to force persons peaceably enjoying their prescriptive rights, off beaches?
the RCIP, much like many wester police forces, have shifted over the last 20 years from protecting the public and locals to protecting capital. They are not here to protect you or I, they are here to protect the money interest. Easiest way to tell this is their response times. When calls come in from locals the response time is measured in hours, when The Rich need them to come to their properties they are always right around the corner.They see their duties now as to keep the local riff raff in line and out of site so the rich don’t have to worry about us breaking the island paradise illusion.
Pinkertons
It’s a nasty-ass “tradition”
What is wrong with our traditions. You came here and found them. It is taken that you are not from these islands. Certainly you did not bring your traditions here. Even the upcoming coronation is based on English tradition which is hundred years old in this modern time. So if any thing is nasty ass it is you for making such a lousy remark.
Huh?
It’s another tradition that should die along with eating turtle. Times change folks…
Yes, why do we not just get rid of all things Cayman and make our home a city that everyone needs to have a visa from the Extra High Wealth that now own it?🧐. If only it remained true, “land that time forgot”. 😏
This comment, along with the gated communities are just reveal the way most expats dispose us Caymanians.
Our politicians represent “them” and use us to get votes.
UDP PPM UNITY AND MANY PACT Politicians work to take away Caymanians rights to go on beaches.
We are fools to continue electing them.
Ask any of them to publish what they have done to stop Caymanians’ beach rights being taken away from us.
The politicians we elected represent the money people, not the ordinary people.
Our honourable elected leader simply represent themselves and are happy to change their allegiance in accord with how the wind is blowing on a particular day. The current narrative appears to be stoke up resentment with colonialist rhetoric but next week they’ll find another target to deflect away from their own ineffectiveness. Never trust a politician.
You are correct – you are fools, and elect fools. So why be surprised at foolish results???
They allow you to come ..in droves too.
Fools upon fools
Tell us where you’re from and your traditions? I wouldn’t even dare say lol
Why? It’s not something I want to do but aside from the trash which could be easily dealt with, what’s the problem?
I imagine the issue is primarily that Caymanians enjoy it, and they would rather us remain on our government-assigned reservations instead of encroaching on the messianic immigrants’ areas of leisure.
So much drama
As an American that lived there 18 years I would sadly say that’s pretty much right.
With a Brit here to back you up. Pi$$es me right off.
We’ll stop eating turtle when you Americans stop slaughtering cows and chickens by the millions.
Talk about pointing out my splinter with a log in your eye..
Turtle, alligator, snake, squirrel, and even oppossum is still enjoyed in tbe American south.
But we have lots.
You should have also point out the way they raise them- so many in one place they can’t even walk around. Also since the “great orange hope came on the scene Americans should not really draw attention to themselves.
This is akin to thinking every Brit is a Boris fan.
We had more than enough turtles , conch, fish until the American Tourists started showing up.
Those pesky American tourists poaching!
Its NOT a long time tradition in Cayman. when i was was young man i never heard of camping out on the beach on Easter.
It’s been happening for most of the lives of Caymanians under 30, so to them it is “tradition.” The fact that you are absolutely correct ( assuming you are older) is immaterial to younger people.
Not absolutely correct, goes back way more than 3 decades. I could point you to a,few EE old timers (older than me that is) who can still tell you about that in great detail.
why are you lying? what are you gaining from this?
7:18? Try ta cool down! say wa??? Now yu gone too far by attacking turtle meat eating!!! Turtle meat has no cholesterol
and tastes fabulous!!! yu muss not be Caymanian if yu don’t like turtle stew. Try it! yu like it!! Cha man!! Turtle meat is nevva gonna go outta style as a tradition. It is very much Caymanian culture!!!
If there’s portable A/C, a generator, and a big TV, it isn’t camping!
Glamcing
*Glamping
3:52, On Governors Beach right now with A/C, a generator, and a big TV they call it camping.
A 100 year old tradition. What a joke? It’s our culture and tradition?
Then don’t do it. I could just as well say that living on a tropical island, and having air conditioning and a pool is not really living on an island. Oops, I just did say it. Now I’m just like you. Say stupid stuff for no really good reason. Guess we’re all just miserable whining humans.
I’ve been going camping since 1975 here in Cayman and I have to say I don’t anymore because Camping has become a huge joke. Why bring WIFI, TV, Cable, Generators, Gas stoves, A/C for tents, Airbeds and the list goes on for miles? It’s like you have never left home to start with. Sometimes I can understand why property owners don’t want anyone to use their land for Camping. Back in the day, we use to go and get conch, lobsters, and fish from this sea and cook for lunch without any restrictions imposed. Cayman is no longer the country it use to be. Sad, Sad, Sad is all I can say.
disgusting, filthy ‘tradition’ that should be outlawed.
Those persons who only see the Caymanian people as servants will never understand the enjoyment young and old Caymanians get from camping.
Hateful people like you should be deported.
Troll.
easter…the only time of the year to avoid beaches in cayman.
Beware of broken glass. My family almost stepped in some at Governors Beach last week, and it was large slivers.
Governor must have been recycling!
Imagine booking an expensive vacation here on Easter holiday.
The beaches, bushes and roadsides look like they were carpet bombed with rubbish and human waste by a fleet of B52 bombers.
Imagine being born on, and living all your life on, an island that is forever outpricing everything remotely enjoyable within your (measly local) pay bracket.
Now imagine that the one local tradition that doesn’t cost $400+ a night over one single weekend per year is being ridiculed because God-forbid the tourists have to endure mingling with locals! Oh the horror.
To be fair, the poster said nothing about mingling with the locals, but about all the stuff some of us leave behind. It’s a fair criticism, and trashing our own island can’t be excused on the cost of living.
the poster didn’t need to with their negative depiction of how campers supposedly leave the beaches.
Name one positive reference in their entire comment? I’ll wait.
it’s hard to be positive when you see the impact of some of the camping. Barker’s last year there was so much rubbish discarded. oh to think, we camp because it’s beautiful, because we love our beaches and our time together with family and friends. but we trash the place we find beautiful. it’s heartbreaking
Imagine Caymanians littering !
So well said.
Every year the expat and “NEW” Caymanians anti-Caymanian hate speech towards GENERATIONAL Caymanians gets worse and worse.
Too many of them treat Caymanians as sub-humans to serve them.
The Jamaicans would probably say the same about Caymanians.
#scapegoats
Like it close.
CNS – Please stop spreading false information:
“However, landowners are also reminded that the public can access and use any beach below the high water mark.”
The Public can in fact use the entire width of any beach to which they have a Prescriptive Right – which almost always means from se to natural vegetation line. The High Water Mark is irrelevant.
That comment to scare Caymanians was made by “The Inspector”, not CNS.
CNS knows she is wrong and has corrected her in the past.
Great comment.
The Prescription Act states that ALL BEACHES AND FORESHORE are public.
Below the high water mark.
No. Anywhere on the sea side of the natural vegetation line.
Beach is up to ordinary high water. Beyond that is someones yard.
Wrong!
Effectively, yes. But civil servants paid large sums by us to enforce our laws, and often themselves from other countries, say otherwise.
Yeah, but no has has yet proven a specific prescriptive right on a specific piece of beach. Only access points. Good luck.
Camping this weekend followed human waste in the bushes. I was taught this weekend is about Jesus not camping. But this is Cayman, Jesus is only around when needed.
Local tradition my back foot
The Penal Code says:
7 Criminal trespass
277. (1) A person who, without having lawful business thereon, enters upon the premises of any private residence or upon land belonging to any proprietor or occupier which is enclosed or in any manner cultivated commits the offence of criminal trespass and is liable to a fine of one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for one year.
(2) A person who unlawfully and maliciously cuts, breaks, barks, roots up or otherwise destroys or damages any plant, fruit, vegetable production, tree, sapling, shrub, or any underwood growing in any place commits an offence and is liable to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for two years or, if the offence is committed in any pleasure ground, garden, orchard or avenue, or in any ground adjoining or belonging to a dwelling house, to a fine of three thousand dollars and to imprisonment for three years.
It is *********NOT****** trespass to camp on the beach on private property. I camp where I want.
Have fun in Northward.
I agree with your sentiment; however that would require legal action which would never happen.
“I camp where I want” — The mentality of the world today! Who cares about anyone else as long as you get what you want. Pathetic!
Says the ant-camper as she throws her rattle out of the pram.
What is your lawful business to be on their property? Didn’t even read your own law
It is you that needs to read the Prescription Act.
*cant
It is wonderful to see some people are actually reading the Prescription Act and then defending their rights against and Inspector and Ministry who work against Caymanians.
We must defend our rights or we will lose them.
Too late, your countrymen sold them away.
Yup same story. Caymanians camping over Easter, crime rates in the Eastern districts sky rocket and anything in your yard not nailed down gets swiped.
Weekend after ex-pats out in force for the beach clean ups picking up all the piles of plastic and literal crap left behind on our beaches by the campers.
Lovely annual tradition, let’s keep it.
You have to earn your PR points somehow!
Yep. You all can’t walk dogs and put that down on the application form for points.
The least you can do in payment for the stress you put on our island’s infrastructure! Oh and yes, thx for doing that, we do much appreciate that you recognize it and try where/if you can. There’s a number of places that I can let you know to help clean as well (not just around Easter time) when you’re finished with your massage after your early morning walk and taking in of the beautiful Cayman breezes. If you’re not up for it, feel free to call your pilot, AA, AC, SW, Delta, Jet Blue,United or crap CAL… your one way ticket is on me!!
Peter, I would like to take you up on that please. My husband and I have had enough of the hate here now and would like to leave. 18 years and still waiting for status that seems to never come, and all the time still being made to feel unwelcome and like we are just a nuisance, taking opportunity from deserving Caymanians…as we sit at home in our retirement not bothering anyone.
Please send your contact information to CNS and I will be in touch with them about arranging for you to pay for our plane tickets out of here.
You all know that you are not leaving any time soon.
Maybe if you had an ounce of EMPATHY you would be siding with us Caymanians.
18 years living in an obvious bubble still doesn’t qualify you for Caymanian Status irregardless of how much money you have and how long you have been here.
If you are so fed up, then my best advice is for you to leave our country. No one would want you to continue to suffer in your bubble.
you don’t need permission to leave. you can leave whenever you please. No one is shackling you to a post to make you stay, if you feel unwelcome and no longer wish to stay you can go. if not well… dont expect special treatment. no one made you move here, you chose to.
Can the police also be checking vehicles to ensure the front and back lights are working during the evening hours. There are many vehicle driving around with one light, no lights. blue lights, yellow and with high beam when not necessary Perhaps they can collect quite a few fines it is within the law.
Thanks Gail, Every nite 1 out of every 5 vehicles on the road has one front or back lite missing and in some cases no lites at all, I tried stopping a Japanese flat bed truck Sunday nite under Camana Bay bridge and ask driver to roll windows down that I could tell him that back lites were out, he sped off sad to say its a common sight daily and vehicles are increasing on the road without lites. Ignorance is no excuse that everybody in these islands cannot spare less than a minute weekly to check their vehicles walk around check to see if lites are functional. only 1 minute it takes.
Those trucks are badly designed – almost certainly a case of the tailgate being open and covering the lights, rather than lights being out!
Illegal tint and no front plates as common now as littering and speeding
I love the ones with lights physically missing, and have obviously been that way for a good while. You know, old Toyotas with indicator units missing, dump trucks with no headlight on one side etc.
Also the f-wits with foglights on but no main beam, to look ‘cool’. Let’s see how cool it looks when an electricity pole jumps out and you can’t see it because foglights aren’t designed to illuminate in the same way as a headlight.
Anyhow, something something Jesus, to get back to the Easter theme.
I doesn’t matter if the indicator lights are missing, they don’t use them anyway. The lens may be missing, but the bulb is still original and has never ever been illuminated.
Phone Jon-Jon if that happens. Worked for him.
The traffic department needs to stop letting outside garages do inspections on these cars. Tryst me when I tell you some of these cars would not pass if they went to the Government inspection locations. For 150.00 you can get any junk pass to go on the road. Many cars are out there without insurance and inspection. Just the other day I faced a problem with a car that was not insured, and not inspected. and no Licence. This car had been sold six times and the first owner left the islands nine years ago and did not make sure the car was transferred before leaving.
Just keep your side of the street clean, and leave others be.
Camping this weekend, followed by piles of junk the following week.
There is hardly ever junk left by campers, please stop saying this. Have you been to 7 mile after a cruise ship was in? Focus your energy on that.
Agreed!
I’m not a camper but noticed the families on Governor’s Beach did a great job last year keeping things tidy.
What rubbish (pun intended) do you really think that cruise shippers turn up with bags of trash to spread around Cayman, or that they run to the nearest shop to buy items so they can then litter? – If you really want to focus on those that litter unfortunately it is definitely closer to home than the cruise tourists.
The tradition of blaming anyone but themselves persists
UMMM pretty sure the used diapers aren’t from cruisers, nor the take out containers from Fosters
Tourists don’t eat or shit?
Nice try
The kids and I removed half a dozen bin bags of trash from Barkers the last time we cleaned up after Easter and not the usual flotsam either; bottles, cans, burned plastic, burned kitchen cabinet (!), rope, cardboard boxes, take away boxes, polystyrene, ripped tarps… all kinds of trash. So sorry, but don’t believe you.
Everyone needs to take home what they brought to the beach – including empty packaging/dirty diapers/bottles/cans/plastic bags etc. etc. Not just at Easter but every trip out!
It doesn’t have to be that way. It didn’t used to be that way. If people who choose to camp don’t pick up after themselves, then they promote legislation that will outlaw camping.
I am a camper, and have not observed massive litter after Easter, however I am on the Sister Islands. What I have observed is people who choose to party during the day near the campers, and leave a mess. Sometimes the campers pick it up anyway.
I’m sure there are campers who have left a mess, but I’ve not seen it in L.C. or the Brac.
We hire a portable toilet and clean up before and after all around the beach, not just our spot, which is same every year. Nearby property owners love us, often join us to eat and share a few beers. EE.
Goodonya mate. It’s that kind of thinking that supports this Caymanian tradition. We need to treat the land, the sea and ourselves with respect.
I very much enjoy seeing families camping. A somewhat recent thing (at least to me) is seeing nonCaymanian families camping. I really like that. How do I know? Well, we all sat and talked for a bit. Nobody that is willing to pack out what they packed in should be excluded. Fun for everyone.
Dont worry Dart was kind enough to build a ten story campsite for you all.
wait.
You should find a hobby, or seek professional help. Perhaps even both.
I thought the same thing when I saw that building go up. But it’s not like anyone camped on the land…..because it was not on the beach like people go to camp.