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Lorenzoid may very well be correct about the average number of vehicles, but the exact number depends a lot on which dive site, time of day and time of year. We have seen as many as 21 trucks at Hilma Hooker on a Monday AM in February. On Saturday PM, the only folks typically diving that site...

My wife and I just got fed up trying to figure out all the permutations involving dates, times, airlines and cities through which they fly and went to a travel agent. Remember them? The last time I did that was about 10 yr ago going to Frankfurt for a 3 day meeting, then on to Krakow on a...

Nice! I saw one at Bari Reef. It was swimming the same direction I was, but above me (I was at 30 ft, top of the reef) and didn't realize it was there until it was well beyond me. The small distant dark-ish smudge in the one photo I took is the only evidence, outside of my memory, that it existed.

In Jan-Feb 2017, DFB@Sand Dollar started telling guests to get solo cert before diving solo. Some folks complained and suggested that, if required, such a constraint might actually violate the facilities lease agreement between DFB and the company that owns the dock etc. That complaint may have...

Ricardo, thanks for this. We have gone to Bonaire via Aruba several times using 2 different airlines to make the hop between the two islands. It almost seems as if there is a law requiring such airlines to behave badly starting with "Never be on time" and going down from there.

Yes, of course. For all possible destinations, travelers should put potential problems in perspective. I have a friend who went on a birding trip to Trinidad and her entire group was robbed at gunpoint in the countryside. I know another birder who went to Belize and was guided by a naturalist...

According to this website, Bonaire is one of the most "secure" islands in the Caribbean.

We were taken to a Roatan site and shown 13 seahorses by a Coco View DM.

The Something Special parking situation along the frontage road tightened recently with slots available for only about 4-5 trucks. But as Darook says, parking is virtually always available off the main road, with the shore only a short walk away down the lane.

I've never found one by myself, but I did see that same seahorse at Bari Reef! I've only ever found 1 frogfish, a white one on a small white piece of dead coral in 15 ft of water, also on Bari Reef. A friend who has done over 6000 dives, most of them on Bonaire, has never found a frogfish by...

We live in NH and have considered Sunwing, especially because we have family living in Toronto. However, when the cost in $$ or time (10+ hr drive each way) to get there are considered, other methods are preferable, even if somewhat more costly. For someone living in northern Ohio or NY, the...

A proof of principle has been demonstrated for underwater navigation using polarized light from the sun. Numerous marine invertebrates and land insects navigate via an equivalent detection process. The expectation is that the method will be usable to 200 m depth and have an error of about 6...

Water temps were interesting, to say the least. When we arrived in mid-Jan, they were 82-83 down to at least 120 ft and we thought things were heading toward a summer high temp disaster. But during the first week of Feb., there was a lot of rain (more than anyone could remember at that time of...

For all intents and purposes, yes. After multiple small issues, including a termite infestation acquired while the removed pier boards were in storage for 5 mo, the dock was fully opened for business last week. There may be some details yet to be completed (replace one or two boards, possibly...

I started watching fares from Boston to Bonaire in June of last year. I eventually cut back one week in length (saved $500) and bought the most expensive round trip tickets ever, for us, at $1250 each, about twice what we paid last year. Pure speculation, but the best explanation I've heard is...

Update Re dock repairs @ Dive Friends Sand Dollar location--the renovation re-started on Monday, Jan. 22. Expectation is that it will be complete in a week or a bit more.

Not at all unusable. The two usual benches for gearing up are in slightly different locations and a bit further apart. Access to and from the water is unimpeded. Dive Friends encourages divers to take wagons with gear out onto the dock, then park the empty wagons back near the tank fill station...

Yes, it will be soon, but soon is defined in island time.

It's Bonaire, so who knows? When the dock repairs started, none of the 3 players (owners, dive shop, contractor) realized (think May or June) permits were required for the repairs. Work was partially completed before cessation enforced. Permit #1 had to come from Holland, which it did many weeks...