Bonaire.. just back from

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My wife and I just returned from Bonaire.. talk about a divers paradise.. in fact.. how minnesota has "land of 10,000 lakes" on the car plates.. Bonaire has "Divers Paradise".  and it is!!  everything is shore dives and despite what people say about being difficult entries I never found one..(course, I wasn't donning any scuba gear ).  For snorkeling/freediving/scuba I don't think it could be beat.  My wife was able to snorkel the shallows ~0 to 25' and I was able to hit the deep water.. usually it dropped off right at about the 25' or 30' depth to around 100' or more.. all usually within 100' of the shore.  The corals were great although the very shallow corals did show some damage from a surge some years ago they are coming back nicely.. many sites had good corals in less than 10' of water and every site had great corals in 15-20'.. and then on down the wall to the bottom.. where ever that was.  So many fish!!  We saw octopus, scorpion fish, nurse shark, tarpon, barracuda, drums, angels, hogfish, hinds, filefish, porcupine fish, etc. etc. etc...  UNBELIEVABLE!!!  Vis varied from 60' to 90' the day we did the Hilma Hooker.  Even freedove with the first bait ball we've ever seen the day we did the hooker.  It was being attacked by the largest bar jacks I've seen.  they looked like tuna... maybe...  Anyway.. any questions on Bonaire.. maybe I can help.
Later.