Caribbean Home: How to Live Right on the Sand in Grand Cayman

By: - May 8th, 2015

Above: Rainbow’s End

By the Caribbean Journal staff

Living on the beach. It’s one of the great Caribbean fantasies. But there are beachfront properties and there are beachfront properties. This is the latter.

The latest Caribbean Home heads to the far end of Grand Cayman to Rainbow’s End, a villa in the Cayman Kai neighbourhood.

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The four-bedroom, four-bathroom, 5,440-square-foot home is listed with Cayman Islands Sotheby’s International Realty’s Patty Nugent for $3.1 million.

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The home, which was built in 1993, is set directly on the beach, with an open plan great room.

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But this property is truly all about the beach, a picture-perfect white-sand stretch home to exquisitely clear water and unmatched tranquility.

It’s what you find at the end of the rainbow.

— CJ

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