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Kenny's Reef

Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras · 825m · intermediate · sheltered

Sheltered south-shore reef off Utila.

Conditions today

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marginal

Marginal — 0.4m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.

Limiting factor: period

Wave height
0.7–1.1m
Wave period
4.6–5.7s
Wind chop
0–0.9m
Sea temp
28.7–29.3°C

Ranges span today's hours. Wave height here is the raw sea state — the rating scales it for how exposed the site is. Sheltered — reef or lagoon protection, so swell is scored at half its open-water height.

Next few days

  • TodayMarginal — 0.4m effective waves made worse by short-period chop.marginal
  • FridayExcellent — calm morning with 0.3m effective waves.excellent
  • SaturdayExcellent — calm morning with 0.3m effective waves.excellent

Each day is scored over its morning dive window, the same as today's rating.

Dive briefing

AI-generated

Kenny's Reef sits in sheltered water with depths from 8 to 25 metres, making it accessible for intermediate divers. Today's conditions are marginal. The period is short at 4.6 to 5.7 seconds, which creates choppy surface conditions that dominate how the site will feel, though waves themselves are modest at 0.7 to 1.1 metres. Water temperature runs 28.7 to 29.3°C. The reef remains diveable, but you'll want to be comfortable with a somewhat jumbled surface.

Divers commonly log stoplight parrotfish, Atlantic blue tangs, and schoolmaster snappers here. Spotted eagle rays and hawksbill sea turtles are often recorded, along with blue land crabs and Caribbean land hermit crabs picking across the bottom. The reef's sheltered aspect generally keeps things manageable for the experienced intermediate diver, though today's chop will require steady technique on entry and exit.

Written by Claude (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) from the rating, forecast, and sightings on this page — it has no other source and cannot look anything up. Treat it as a summary, not as local knowledge.

Commonly seen here

Most-recorded species near this site, ranked by research-grade iNaturalist sightings from divers, snorkelers, and naturalists.

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Other sites nearby

Within 25km, closest first — usually the same day's boat.