George Town, Grand Cayman, Ilhas Cayman

Eden Rock

Eden Rock is the sister shore-dive site to Devil's Grotto on Grand Cayman's George Town waterfront, accessed from the same Eden Rock Diving Centre seawall. The two sites are often dived as a single circuit, separated only by a sandy channel. Eden Rock itself is a coral mound rising from a sand bottom in roughly 12 metres, undercut by a series of caverns and swim-throughs in 6 to 10 metres that pierce through the reef and create dramatic light shafts. Like Devil's Grotto, Eden Rock fills with massive silverside schools — millions of juvenile herring — from late spring through summer, with tarpon, snapper and jacks hunting through the bait. Resident wildlife includes green moray eels, spotted moray eels, schoolmaster snapper, yellowtail snapper, sergeant majors, blue tangs, queen and French angelfish, midnight parrotfish, large lobster, and Caribbean reef squid hovering above the reef. The shallow depth, calm protected harbour conditions and easy seawall entry make Eden Rock ideal for training dives, refreshers and unlimited shore-diving with a tank fill stop just metres away. Best silverside spectacle April through August.