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Has anyone seen my socks?, May 7, 2003
When it comes to the Brac, I've been going there for well over a decade, and I picked up this book mostly just to have a complete set of references. And when it comes to guidebooks, I'm usually pretty hard to be impressed. But Skip's comprehensiveness and thoroughness across the full gambit completely knocked my socks off. The book is a quality piece all the way around: good photo's, excellent maps, and great references: I recognized citations from limited print Cayman Trust publications, including the "Storm of '32" and "Duppies Is" I'm not a climber, but I am aware that the Brac became a climber's destination in the '90s, although the info had been pretty hard to find...until now. Skip's well organized compilation looks to me to be "The Bible" for Brac-bound climbers. I am a diver, and his moored sites are covered well enough. The only significant suggestion I can make is that it would have been wonderful if Skip could have gotten permission to reprint the UW topology illustrations originally published in Shlomo Cohen's "Cayman Diver's Guide" (ISBN 965-362-0053), which was last printed in 1990, and not particularly easy to find. When it comes to shore diving, most diving guidebooks pretty much claim that there is none on the Brac. This is where Skip's book is a goldmine: my shore diving list just flat out doubled, and it looks like I only know of one spot that Skip didn't already have. Skip also has an excellent reference section, and does a great job in the photo's throughout the book in putting names to local faces. Overall, this is a great guidebook, a virtual "must" for any Brac traveller who's really interested in the island and who is going to spend time there. It knocked my socks off, but for trips to the Brac, that's a good thing, because its where we get barefoot for a week at a time :-) -hh
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