Eden Rock & Devil's Grotto
La profondità indica il range dalla sommità del sito al suo massimo abituale; il "brevetto consigliato" è il livello richiesto di norma dagli operatori delle principali agenzie, non una norma di legge. Correnti e visibilità cambiano ogni giorno — considera tutto ciò che trovi qui come range di pianificazione.
Devil's Grotto hides the best light show in the Caymans a stone's throw from the cruise tenders. The twin coral heads are hollow — a maze of tunnels and chimneys where midday sun drops through ceiling holes in solid-looking columns. In late summer the chambers fill wall-to-wall with silversides, a shifting metal fog through which tarpon cruise like slow torpedoes, scattering channels that heal instantly behind them. The rest of the year the tarpon remain, patient and enormous, over divers threading the swim-throughs. As a shore dive costing a tank and a ladder step, it is close to unbeatable.
Il momento che aspettavi: Tarpon gliding through silverside clouds (late summer), sunbeam chambers, world-class shore-dive access.
Topografia: Two coral massifs on sand, riddled with connecting tunnels, chimneys, and skylit chambers.
Corrente: Calm except when winter norwesters send swell onto this coast.
Entrata: Ladder and step entries from the George Town waterfront dive centers; a swim of a few dozen meters reaches the rocks.
Sapere prima di tuffarsi
Pericoli: Cruise-tender and boat traffic outside the swim zone; mild overhead in the tunnels — every chamber has visible exits, but stay oriented.
Conservazione: Marine-park waters in the island's busiest corner; the grottos survive on good buoyancy and no-touch discipline.
Chi incontrerai
Atlantic Tarpon
Great Barracuda
Porcupinefish
Per i fotografi
Grandangolo: ★★★★★ · Macro: ★★☆☆☆ — valutazione da 1 a 5 dei redattori su ciò che questo sito offre per ogni stile di ripresa