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The shrublands of the island comprise various varieties of thorny shrubs, cacti, and watapana and evergreen trees. Numerous avian species like terns, herons, egrets, flamingos, orioles, hummingbirds , bananaquits, trupial, mockingbirds, cormorants, and gulls are found near the coastal areas of the island. Many iguanas are also found on the island. The various inlets of the island serve as critical breeding habitats for sea turtles.

The Spanish explorer Alonso de Ojeda and his crew were the first Europeans to visit the island in These Spaniards enslaved the Indigenous Arawak people and forcibly deported them as slaves to the copper mines on Hispaniola Island in Though this little Dutch Caribbean island is best known for its colourful colonial waterfront in Willemstad, too few know about the rainbow of vibrant coral and marine life under its waters.

That is why Dive Curacao developed this useful Curacao Diving Guide and Interactive map that allows you to easily plan your next Curacao diving adventure! This preserve has amazing sheer walls covered with extensive healthy coral and sponge colonies while the shallow plateaus are overrun by magnificent examples of Elkhorn, Staghorn and Pillar coral communities. Only accessible by boat, this site is largely one of the most pristine and unblemished fringing reef systems on Curacao, if not the entire Caribbean.

Lush gorgonians cover the site, together with hard corals and sponges. A large school of tarpons inhabit the underwater bridge, a natural bridge that was formed by coral formations throughout time. Sharks, eagle rays, large barracuda, and turtles have been spotted at this wonderful Curacao diving location that has seen very little human impact.

Located approximately 6. This is a true Caribbean dive location which is pristine and unspoiled. These immaculate dive locations with large dense corals overhangs lead to sharp drop offs, and this coupled with great visibility provide you with a degree experience that will leave you wanting more upon surfacing! Sharks and stingrays are often seen here too. Tugboat Located in just 5 meters 15ft of water, this famous tugboat was wrecked just a few yards offshore in a protected bay of Caracassbaai.

This site is perfect for divers as well as snorkelers. Easy to access and easy to find a plethora of critters such as seahorses, octopus, lobsters, napping scorpion fish and the odd nudibranch if you can find it!! The tugboat is overgrown with tube sponges and coral and is home to a variety of colorful reef fish too. This wreck dive is an advanced shore or boat dive with the easiest approach is from the stern due to the possibility of the prevailing currents.

As you descend the fringing reef, an eerie dark shadow starts to appear. At first, you only see the stern, but then the entirety of this magnificent 50m ft mass with its superstructure rising to within 21m 72ft of the surface reveals itself, covered in a vast kaleidoscope of color. Now with over 40 years of growth, the MV Superior Producer is an amazing artificial reef site home to numerous colonies and different species of corals, sponges, gorgonians and sea whips.

Because of this, it is a natural attraction for schools of predatory fish such as Tarpons, Barracudas, Snappers and Jacks. This is a bucolic haven for boat and shore diving, offering near perfect conditions year-round because of the natural shielding from the easterly trade winds offered by the mountain range running through the middle of the Christoffel National Park.

Willibrordus to the north west fishing village of Westpunt. Along this rugged and ancient coastline, you will discover some of the best beaches in the Caribbean such as Cas Abao and the famous Kenepa Plantation. These world class locations, among others, provide you with an exceptional opportunity for incredible shore diving and snorkeling.

Watamula offers the diver an intense and sometimes overwhelming spectacle starting with a hard-coral field, then a soft coral patch, then finally ending with another hard-coral field! It is so intense that the diver really does not know where to look first!