Cayman Diving Lodge, Grand Cayman I think divers like to keep the Cayman Diving Lodge, nestled on a protected stretch of beach at Grand Cayman's East End, a secret. Here, you can exercise your dive ethic until it cries for mercy without breaking the bank. From the moment you arrive at the Cayman Diving Lodge, you're part of its dive family (there are even a couple of communal dogs that greet you on the dock after your dives), and this resort comes as close to land-based live-aboard diving as is possible. But why keep such a great deal a secret? Well, some of the Caribbean's best and most overlooked diving awaits within an easy five- to 10-minute boat ride from the Cayman Diving Lodge dock. The deep walls off Cayman's East End are covered in a thick coat of black coral trees and healthy sponges. These sites include The Maze, with its labyrinth of crevices and swim-throughs, and Jack McKenney's Canyons, which rival Bloody Bay Wall for sheer thrills and the health of the marine environment. The shallow sites are equally impressive. Grouper Grotto and Snapper Hole are tarpon and silverside Meccas. The swim-throughs at these sites get so densely packed with schooling silversides, especially in August, that you almost get carried through with their mass movement, rather than swim. And with tarpon doing lightning-fast strafing runs through these rivers of mercury, you'll have a front-row seat to some incredible predator/prey action. To put the East End in proper perspective, Sport Diver contributor and world-renowned underwater photographer David Doubilet recently went to Grand Cayman on an assignment of rediscovery and was so blown away by the East End sites that he immediately requested a return trip, specifically to further explore the undersea wonderland he experienced off the East End. I would recommend the full meal plan while staying at the CDL. In the world of all-inclusive dive lodges, I have to say there are no places I can think of where I've eaten better food. The chef churns out meals equal to the diving, neither of which are skipped by the savvy divers who make it out to the "remote" East End of Grand Cayman.