Little Bay Beach — Attraction in Dutch Caribbean

While staying at the Divi Little Bay Resort, I found the snorkeling to be wonderful. At the left end of the beach (which all beaches in St. Maarten are open to the public), I observed and photographed green turtles, caribbean whiptail stingray, cushion sea stars, spotted eagle ray and many fish species. Sometimes the turtles were feeding only within 10 feet deep water. Further out along the rocks, you will see a sunken helicopter, cannons, ship bell, sunken submarine and the cone and fuselage of a jet that had been staged for divers. I used my own snorkeling gear, however it can be rented from a vendor at the Divi Resort. You can also rent chairs and umbrella if you are not staying at the resort. UPDATE: We have been to this bay three more times since my initial review, we were not staying at the resort any of these times, and were able to park within the Divi Little Bay Resort parking lot once we explained to the gate security guard we wanted to go to the beach, we would be renting chairs and getting drinks at the bars. You should only turn into the Divi Resort entrance off of Octavius L. Richardson Road coming from the Philipsburg direction, as the turn is too sharp from the other direction. In the October 2023, I also observed and photograph hundreds of moon jellyfish floating in the current on my morning swim. These jellyfish have very short tentacles and rarely do they sting humans! By the afternoon of that trip, the moon jellyfish were gone. The water is clear and calm. Two chairs and umbrella were rented for $25 from the vendor...

This was our favorite beach experience on St Martin. However, the beach has 2 hotels on it and they make it pretty difficult to get to the beach if you are not staying there. You have to park outside the guard house, tell them you're there for the beach and then walk a good way to get to the beach. Someone told us to tell the guards you're there to eat at a restaurant and they will let you park inside. Great sand and water, not too crowded and it's ringed by beautful scenery on all sides. Not good snorkeling while we were there but there is a sunken garden of concrete statues on the left side (there's a ton of excusion boats always there) that was cool to see. ...

Little Bay Beach is a lovely quiet beach that was recommended to us for snorkelling, we were told turtles come and lay eggs here at a certain time of year. We swam around rocks and although we didn’t see turtles, we saw a group of cuttlefish, I had never seen them in the wild it was so fun, they’re very elegant swimmers with their frills! The highlight also was the walk back from Little Bay Beach along the coast past Indigo Bay, the sun was setting and the light...