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Sea creatures and snorkellers are safe in the calm lagoon waters of Ilot Maitre Marine Reserve in the South Pacific. When it is calm, at high tide, it is a delight to snorkel over the white sand and turtle grass beds to the south of l'Escapade Island Resort. The variety of sea creatures that inhabit this reef-top environment is amazing. There are clusters of sea stars and every single one has its own kaleidoscope of colours, red, blue, yellow, orange, purple, green, and each decorated with tiny mountain ranges of harmless spires. Most of them are *Pentaceraster alveolatus*, reaching 13cm in diameter but there is also another starfish, without spines along the edge of its arms and with brown spines, called *Protoreaster nodosus*.
