Flamingo Bay - Southwest Coast (Caribbean Side), Grenada

Site Overview

Flamingo Bay is famed among local divers as the most fish-loaded water on Grenada: a shallow reef embayment that edges into a wall dropping to 21 m, and every inch of it is crowded. Dense shoals of purple Creole wrasse, yellow-gold chromis and grunts hover over the coral heads in numbers that never quite thin out, with big groupers posted on the wall ledge. Most of the action lives between 5 and 15 m on the reef, so the wall is optional — the mid-depths carry the clouds and the air stays comfortable. The site sits in Southwest Coast (Caribbean Side), one of Grenada's core dive areas, with water at 27-29 °C and typical visibility of 15-25 m. It sits on the open Caribbean side north of St George's — boats can run to the deeper sites first if the afternoon trade-wind chop builds. Few Caribbean sites deliver plain fish-count density this reliably, and Flamingo's is why locals claim the best wall snorkelling-to-deeper-diving transition on the island. Trade winds blow almost constant over the Caribbean, and it is their lulls and builds that set the daily diving schedule around Grenada. Water temperature stays in the high twenties year-round and the island sits outside the main hurricane belt, so the dive boats run twelve months a year.