Jackson's Bight, Little Cayman, Ilhas Cayman

Nancy's Cup of Tea

Nancy's Cup of Tea is a named mooring site within Jackson's Bight on Little Cayman's north-shore wall system, named for a bowl-like indentation in the reef plateau that gives the site a distinctive tea-cup-shaped sand patch surrounded by coral heads. The dive begins from a mooring in roughly 6 to 8 metres of water and divers head outward to the wall lip, which begins at 6 to 8 metres and drops vertically beyond 1,800 metres into the deep Caribbean. The wall face hosts massive orange elephant-ear sponges, giant barrel sponges, deepwater sea fans, black coral bushes, sheet corals, rope sponges and yellow tube sponges. The bowl indentation on the reef top concentrates reef life including queen angelfish, French angelfish, midnight parrotfish, blue tangs and schools of yellowtail snapper. Beyond the lip, divers regularly encounter Nassau grouper, hawksbill and green turtles, eagle rays, Caribbean reef sharks, schools of horse-eye jacks, blue chromis and Creole wrasse. Year-round Marine Park visibility commonly exceeds 30 metres.