George Town, Grand Cayman, Ilhas Cayman

Cheeseburger Reef

Cheeseburger Reef earned its tongue-in-cheek name from its location directly offshore from the Burger King restaurant on Grand Cayman's George Town waterfront. The site is a shallow fringing-reef shore dive accessed from the Eden Rock area, sitting in 6 to 12 metres of water just a short surface swim from the seawall. The reef is a healthy stretch of hard coral including boulder coral, brain coral, sea plumes and sea fans, with sandy patches separating the coral heads. Resident wildlife includes hawksbill turtles browsing on sponges, green moray eels and spotted moray eels in the crevices, southern stingrays cruising the sand, schools of yellowtail snapper, schoolmaster, blue tangs, queen and French angelfish, sergeant majors, and Caribbean reef squid. Tarpon and jacks pass through hunting at dawn and dusk. The shallow depth, easy shore access, near-zero current and consistently calm conditions on George Town's protected south-west coast make Cheeseburger Reef one of the best beginner and training dives on Grand Cayman. Visibility commonly exceeds 25 metres in the dry season.