Sir Frances Drake may have been the first pirate to visit in 1585-86 when the island was called Caimanas meaning crocodile. As Caribbean piracy reached its golden age from the 1660s until the 1730s, other buccaneers frequented the Cayman Islands. The Pirate’s Caves was a small property designed to leverage this history with limestone caves and a pirate cemetery plus artifacts and a petting zoo. The attraction closed in 2015. Yet each November since the late 1970s the island hosts Pirates Week. This huge festival includes plenty of partying plus a pirate invasion from the sea.
