Bloody Bay, Little Cayman tide times

Predictions: Open-Meteo Marine (MeteoFrance SMOC, 0.08° grid) — heights relative to MSL (not chart datum / LAT). Model-derived.

Model-derived from a global ocean grid. Useful indication; expect about ±45 minutes on average vs. a local harmonic gauge, individual stations vary widely. See /methodology for per-region detail. Not for navigation.

Conditions as of 23:00 local time. Refreshes daily.

Predictions: Open-Meteo Marine (MeteoFrance SMOC, 0.08° grid) — heights relative to MSL (not chart datum / LAT). Model-derived. · Not for navigation.

The angler tradition for major/minor fishing windows: major ≈3-hour windows around moon transit and opposition; minor ≈2-hour windows around moonrise and moonset. Times are America/Cayman local. Folk tradition, not a scientific forecast.

Bloody Bay is on the north coast of Little Cayman, and the wall that begins in 6 metres of water off this beach and drops vertically to 1,800 metres is considered one of the finest wall dives in the western hemisphere. The Bloody Bay Marine Park designation covers the reef and wall along the entire north coast of the island; no anchoring, no fishing, no coral contact within the park boundaries. The protected status, combined with Little Cayman's very low population of approximately 200 permanent residents and near-absence of coastal runoff pressure, means the reef is in the best condition of any in the Cayman Islands. The wall face runs for several kilometres along the north coast, and the dive sites within Bloody Bay itself — Mixing Bowl, The Meadows, Donna's Delight — are named features on the wall with mooring buoys and dive guide familiarity spanning decades. The dive character changes with depth: the reef flat from 3 to 6 metres is heavily populated with healthy staghorn and brain coral; the wall lip at 6 to 8 metres drops into the near-vertical face; at 15 to 20 metres the big sea fans and black coral become the dominant structure; below 30 metres the wall transitions to deep-water rubble and the occasional large pelagic species. Tarpon, eagle rays, Nassau grouper, and shark species are regular sightings at the wall. The beach at Bloody Bay is reached by road from the Little Cayman settlement or by boat; the beach itself is modest — limestone sand and ironshore fringe — but the snorkelling from the beach is exceptional because the wall lip is a 10-minute swim from the shore. Independent snorkellers swimming the wall edge should be aware of the vertical drop to 1,800 metres and the current that runs along the wall face; buddy pairs only, and a surface marker buoy. The Booby Pond Nature Reserve on the island's south shore is the other major natural attraction: the largest red-footed booby colony in the western hemisphere, approximately 5,000 breeding pairs, visible from the road. The tidal regime at Little Cayman is mixed semidiurnal, spring range roughly 0.4 to 0.6 metres — slightly larger than Grand Cayman's sheltered south coast. At the wall dive sites the tidal current along the wall face runs at 0.2 to 0.5 knots on a typical day; the ebb current runs broadly westward along the north coast, and the flood runs east. The strongest current window requires drift-dive technique and live-boat pickup from the dive operators. All tide predictions on this page come from Open-Meteo Marine gridded model — accuracy within plus or minus 45 minutes on timing and 0.2 to 0.3 metres on height.