This pay-to-get-in beach is known as "the beach with the pigs" since there are several pigs that hang around the beach area. When we went there, there weren't any on the beach, but they were a couple of adults and several piglets around a muddy pond up near the road. Like at most beaches in the Caribbean, I'm always shocked by the amount of commercialism that's allowed on the beaches. In Canada, where there's no such thing as a private beach, the idea of turning a natural beach into a pay-for-everything commercial enterprise would be heresy and cause mass protests. Here in Curacao it's the norm, so like many beaches here, it's covered with rentable beach chairs, a dive shop, souvenir stands, restaurants, etc. I seem to be the only one bothered by this since these beaches are full of people who pay to sit a few feet apart, listening to random thumping background music while scrolling through their phones.
I thought this was a pretty good snorkeling site, especially out from the North side of the beach, where there were fields of staghorn coral. The only drawback is that you have to swim far out from the beach compared to some of the other beaches, where there are steeper "cliff" areas bordering the sides of the beach allowing deeper snorkeling closer to shore.
