Stella Maris / Ocean Encounters

This is a great house reef dive located from the shores of the Lions Dive and Beach Resort. Shore accessible, this site is perfect for newer divers and snorkelers and sits right inside the Curacao National Marine Park.

Marine life at this site

You’ll encounter many different colors of hard and soft corals and sponges plus tons of marine life like parrotfish, angelfish, stingrays, snapper, and more!

Based on open species observationswithin ~5 km — likely to see, not necessarily confirmed at the site itself.

Four-toothed Nerite

Nerita versicolor3 obs.

Symmetrical Brain Coral

Pseudodiploria strigosa2 obs.

Flamingo Tongue Snail

Cyphoma gibbosum2 obs.

Elkhorn Coral

Acropora palmata2 obs.

Zebra Periwinkle

Echinolittorina ziczac2 obs.

Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Echinolittorina tuberculata1 obs.

Krebsdyr

Clibanarius tricolor1 obs.

Koral & anemone

Plexaura homomalla1 obs.

Koral & anemone

Pseudodiploria clivosa1 obs.

Massive Starlet Coral

Siderastrea siderea1 obs.

Beaded Periwinkle

Cenchritis muricatus1 obs.

Greater Star Coral

Montastraea cavernosa1 obs.

Checkered Nerite

Nerita tessellata1 obs.

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Green Sea Turtle

Chelonia mydas6 obs.

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Koral & anemone

Madracis auretenra1 obs.

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Hawksbill Sea Turtle

Eretmochelys imbricata1 obs.

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Mangrove Root Crab

Goniopsis cruentata1 obs.

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Svamp

Neofibularia nolitangere1 obs.

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Lumpy Overgrowing Sponge

Desmapsamma anchorata1 obs.

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Caribbean Sea Mat

Palythoa caribaeorum1 obs.

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Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Echinolittorina meleagris1 obs.

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Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Tudora megacheilos1 obs.

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Svamp

Aplysina archeri1 obs.

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Mustard Hill Coral

Porites astreoides1 obs.