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Rugby, football (soccer) and cricket are also extremely popular during their respective seasons. The Truman Bodden Sports Complex, located behind the John Gray High School in George Town, has a professional quality track and field facility and a stadium with seating for 3000. Cayman has hosted major international sporting events including, the 24th Carifta Games here in 1995 and the Shell Caribbean Cup soccer finals.

There is also a very active Gaelic Football Association, which holds 7 aside tournaments from January to September. Beginners and professionals from all nationalities are welcome to attend training sessions at the Rugby Club in South Sound.

The Cayman Motorsports Association has over 100 members, and is finalizing plans for a family motorcross park in Breakers. Currently, car races take place at Lakeview Race Track on weekends throughout the year, normally on the first Sunday of the month. .

The Cayman Horse Association has more than 50 horse-owner members, who stage special events including races and horse shows throughout the year. 

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In addition to an abundance of watersports, Grand Cayman offers visitors a variety of both spectator and competitive sports.

Tennis, squash, volleyball, jogging, walking, cycling and a good selection of local health clubs and fitness centres are other activities enjoyed by visitors. Martial arts training centres feature instruction in Taekwondo and karate, popular with young residents.

There are three golf courses, one of which is a Jack Nicklaus-designed course at the Hyatt Regency Britannia Golf Club (which can be played as either executive 18 holes or 9 hole course) and the Championship 18-hole course, The Links at SafeHaven, a USGA Par-71 course. Sunrise Family Golf Centre in Newlands also offers a 9 hole par 3 course.

Regular local sports competitions are held throughout the year, including triathlons; 5K and 10K runs; swimming events and cycling races.

The Cayman Islands has one of the world's largest Little Leagues, with over 600 young local ballplayers participating. The association has its own "Field of Dreams" complex with four playing fields on Grand Cayman.

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The Cayman Islands enjoy a duty-free status and our capital of George Town in Grand Cayman is one of the most attractive shopping centres in the Caribbean. Here you'll find not only the main duty-free shops, but also a fine selection of fine jewellery, specialty and souvenir shops as well as a variety of casual restaurants. Stores in George Town are closed on Sunday. A large enclosed car park offers parking space in George Town's Piccadilly Car Park, next to Hobbies & Books on Elgin Avenue.

You'll find a good selection of traditional duty free items such as watches, china and crystal, perfumes and fine jewellery-including authentic treasure coin jewellery - on Grand Cayman and at a few stores on Cayman Brac. Prices on perfume, watches and select luxury items may be as much as 30% cheaper here. 

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Christopher Columbus discovered Little Cayman and Cayman Brac during his fourth and last voyage to the New World, on May 10, 1503. While sailing from Panama to Hispaniola, severe winds pushed his ships off course west.

The ship's log reported "... we were in sight of two very small islands, full of tortoise, as was the sea about, inasmuch as they looked like little rocks." Consequently, Columbus named the islands Las Tortugas after the abundant sea turtles he sighted. The islands were later renamed Lagartos, meaning alligator or large lizard and finally, the name Caymanas was applied around 1540, derived from the Carib word for marine crocodile. This name, in a modified form, has remained since the late 16th century.

Sir Francis Drake visited the islands during a voyage between 1585-86 and reported sighting "great serpents called Caymanas, like large lizards, which are edible." An anonymous author in Drake's fleet also described 10-foot long crocodiles. According to the Cayman Islands National Archive, there are written accounts of Cayman dating back to the 1830's which describe the shooting of crocodiles as a Sunday sport.

During the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, the islands were replenishment centres supplying abundant fresh water and food, including sea turtles and wild fowl, for English, Dutch, French and Spanish explorers and buccaneers plying the Spanish Main route.

The Cayman Islands came under British control in 1655 when Jamaica was captured from the Spanish by Oliver Cromwell's army. They officially became part of the British Empire under the Treaty of Madrid in 1670, after which Spain recognized British possession of "all lands, islands, colonies and places situated in the West Indies." For almost 300 years after that, the islands were administered as a dependency of Jamaica.

The first recorded settlement was of Little Cayman and Cayman Brac between 1666-1671, while Sir Thomas Modyford was Governor of Jamaica, comprising descendants of emigrants from the British Isles.