Klein Curaçao

Klein Curaçao (Dutch for "little Curaçao") is a small uninhabited island south-east of Curaçao. The only things on the island are an old lighthouse, beach house, and several huts. Klein Curaçao is well known as a beautiful diving-spot because of its coral and underwater caves.

Boaters regularly visit this small island during the day. You can catch a ride out to the island from one of the small tour or dive boats on Curaçao.

Klein Curaçao has no permanent inhabitants, only a few palm-font covered sheds for day trippers from Curaçao, and apart from some coconut palms has little vegetation. The windward side is a graveyard for boats that didn’t stay out far enough or lost power. A small tanker, the Maria Bianca Guidesman tanker is gradually being diminished to rust and dust by the constant pounding of the waves. The remains of another four or five boats are washed far onshore. This is also the site of the island that is a resting place for tons of driftwood, hundreds of flip-flops and thousands of plastic bottles.

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