Top Snorkeling and Scuba Diving in Labadie

Once to the site the shoal offers a top with sea grass with lots of snails and urchins. Around the periphery there are coral formations where fish and eels have been spotted. These tear drop shaped shoals are accessible by taxi boat from the Labadie port. They take about 15 minutes to reach on one of the 15 hp motorized boats.

A gradual slope to 10-11 meters with hard coral formations in the 3-5 meter zone. Lots of small wrasses, fingerprint cowry and nudibranch to be seen. A 10-15 minute boat ride from Labadie taxi boat port.

Named after a jellyfish due to its shape, the northern part is a wall dropping to 12-15 meters with hard and soft corals. Pelagics will come near the reef like barracuda in search of smaller fish. A 20 minute boat ride from the Labadie taxi boat port. The reef is shallow in places and one must be careful in doing a back roll entry not to do so over too shallow an area.

The bottom drops gradually and is relatively flat with interspersed coral outcroppings. Some hard corals and little soft coral. Lettuce leaf hard coral formations especially common. One must hire a taxi from the Labadie taxi boat port. The trip time is form 20-25 minutes. It is a bit hard to locate as you have to distinguish from other shoals in the area. A GPS would be helpful in locating this site.

The reef off Paradise Beach is mostly soft corals with some hard brain corals interspersed among them. There is a high concentration of fire coral, so be careful to stay well above the coral to avoid getting stung. There are patches of staghorn coral with fish hiding in the. The fish life is rather sparse as is the case with much of coastal Haiti but there are still some wrasses, parrotfish, tangs and surgeonfish to study as you swim by. This site has a good number of purple gorgonian fans as well. Always fun to inspect for a flamingo tongue snail. To get to Paradise you need to take a Boat Taxi from Labadie village taxi port. The 20 minute ride costs 1,000 Gourdes (Aug 09) or approximately 25 USD for the round trip. Once on the beach the entry is a gradual sandy slope dropping down quickly to 13 meters over a short distance where it levels off again at about 18meters to a sandy bottom. Paradise Beach is also known as Malfini.