Randy's Gazebo
Depth is the range from the top of the site to its usual maximum; "recommended cert" is the mainstream-agency level operators usually ask for, not a legal rule. Currents and visibility change daily, so treat everything here as planning ranges.
Randy's Gazebo bundles Bloody Bay's best tricks into one mooring. A natural arch stands proud of the wall like a folly in a formal garden (the gazebo), framing divers against blue for the trip's inevitable portrait. Nearby, a chimney swallows you at the shelf and lowers you through the reef's interior, past sponge-lined walls, to an exit on the vertical face. Between set pieces the wall does its quiet Little Cayman work: crinoids waving from vase sponges, arrow crabs in the crevices, a grouper auditing every diver in turn. Deservedly the bay's most requested site.
The moment you come for: The arch, the chimney descent through the reef, dense wall decoration.
Topography: Wall face sculpted into an arch (the gazebo) plus a chimney threading from the shelf through the lip.
Entry: Bloody Bay mooring; the named features sit just seaward of the lip.
Know before you splash
Hazards: Brief overhead in the chimney; depth beyond the exits.
Conservation: Marine-park moorings and no-touch rules; the chimney is one-diver-at-a-time by unwritten law.
Nitrox: Worth it here: profiles sit in the range where enriched air meaningfully extends no-stop time (with the training to use it).
Who you'll meet
Great Barracuda
Nurse Shark
Green Sea Turtle
Hawksbill Turtle
Lionfish
Porcupinefish
Southern Stingray
Christmas Tree Worm
Also recorded nearby
"Charted here" species were listed by our editors from the sources on this page. Counts are GBIF occurrence records: observations logged within about 5 km of the charted position since 1990, matched only against the species in our catalogue. They show what has been seen there, not a promise of what you will see.
For photographers
Wide angle: ★★★★★ · Macro: ★★★☆☆ (editors' 1–5 rating of what this site gives each style of shooting)