Maubara Church
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About this site
Maubara Church is a beach dive on Timor-Leste's west coast, in front of the church at Maubara. It is a very smooth slope with a sandy bottom and plenty of big bommies, and you can enter from the beach at any time.
Depth runs from 5 to 25 metres, and Open Water certification is enough. Hard and soft corals are colourful, with fish all around. Nudibranchs, shrimps and crabs hide along the bottom, and big pelagic fish often cruise by, with turtles, tuna and mackerel on a lucky day. Both wide-angle and macro lenses have something to shoot, and the site can be snorkelled.
Marine life here
Confirmed by our research team, reported by independent divers, or observed nearby via iNaturalist — each entry is labelled with its source.
Blue-headed WrasseThalassoma amblycephalumReported here · unconfirmed
Reticulated DamselfishDascyllus reticulatusReported here · unconfirmed
Moon WrasseThalassoma lunareReported here · unconfirmed
Blacklip ButterflyfishChaetodon kleiniiReported here · unconfirmed
Bicolor ChromisPycnochromis margaritiferReported here · unconfirmed
Three-spot DascyllusDascyllus trimaculatusReported here · unconfirmed
Bluestreak Cleaner WrasseLabroides dimidiatusReported here · unconfirmed
Neon DamselfishPomacentrus coelestisReported here · unconfirmed
Twospot BristletoothCtenochaetus binotatusReported here · unconfirmed
NudibranchNudibranchReported here · unconfirmed
TunaTunaReported here · unconfirmed
MackerelMackerelReported here · unconfirmed
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