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    Trip Report Bonaire March 2024–Dead reefs

    Good news and bad news. Yes, almost every brain coral and similar species from 18 Palms to Bari are pretty much dead. And they are affected in the previously closed sites north of Bopec all the way to Ligthouse too. But there is lots of species unaffected. The extreme bleaching from September...
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    Info SCTLD closures on Bonaire

    Please, not another trite pop psychology cliche! If you think it is trivial, good for you, ignore it. But as I said in my first post, I may be picky but I do value precision, particularly when it would be just as easy to be precise as it is to be sloppy. The chart shows the delta between the...
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    Info SCTLD closures on Bonaire

    I don't see any rectal reference in my post, that is your viewpoint! Yes, agreed it was my inference and their implication. Standing corrected. But, there is no arithmetic possibility that daily temperatures in tenths of degrees C can accumulate rounding errors of that magnitude when converted...
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    Info SCTLD closures on Bonaire

    I get that your main point about the seasonality of water temps is correct and maybe I am too picky about it, but I have seen this chart before and it bugs me that they infer precision by going to tenths of degrees, but get the simple arithmetic of converting between C and F wrong, in many...
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    Bonaire planning help....

    If you are coming to Bonaire with a dive group you are probably coming to dive! So hit the ground running, get a truck and tanks and dive. If your 100 dives are Pacific Coast beach dives, it will be easy. If they are all resort boat dives, there will be a learning curve so choose sites that...
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    Question What is the viz right now when diving

    Concur with arew and Scubadada's vis assessments. Maybe even a tad worse at times with the daily rainfall. That would be considered great clarity in a lot of places, but not so good for Bonaire. Last year had the highest number of rainy days on record and it is on track to exceed that this...
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    CHANGES IN STINAPA FEES

    Just like the tourist tax that was to be $50 good for the year that changed to $75 for each entry, the outcome could be different than the announcement. But my interpretation is cruise ship passengers will pay $10 for the park and $10 to dive or snorkel. More fair than charging $45 for a...
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    Wind Reversal Damage

    Just got back to Bonaire after the summer away and did my first dives this week. Particularly in the areas south of Belnem, I was surprised to see so much shift in the sand and dead coral piled in the near shore. In the shallows, heading to the drop, many of the blade corals were uprooted and...
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    Is there a preferred sun screen product used on the island?

    Filtered through your wetsuit?
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    STINAPA EMERGENCY: Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) is in Bonaire

    Mel, are you inferring that the disease spread may have been waterborne and not delivered at the hand of a gloved diver? Gasp! Eco-heresy!
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    Scorpions?

    A few years back we were renting a Bonaire ground floor apartment. While enjoying the fading sun on the terrace, a piercing shriek came from my wife inside while watching tv. A little scorpion had come out from under the sofa and danced across her toes. I came in and "took care of it". I...
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    Return to Bonaire

    Oh, sorry Lorenzoid, I was just starting to reply when our guests arrived and did not mean to send that message then, hoping to finish the message later. What I meant to say was that Bobbejans remains open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday for take out only. Their interior garden where you can...
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    Return to Bonaire

    Not quite business as usual
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    Covid surging in Bonaire

    Just to be clear, the previous post was exclusively about the description of the vaccine requirements. So before someone latches onto the existing requirement for non-EU nationals to have a test, here is the link and the paste highlighted in red of the new requirements coming into force this...
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    Covid surging in Bonaire

    Below is a link to the Netherlands government site and a "cut and paste" with reference to the validity periods for the primary vaccination series and the booster. It is clear and precise. I recognize that the rules for the European Netherlands do not directly apply to Bonaire in many cases...
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    Covid surging in Bonaire

    Double post
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    Covid surging in Bonaire

    Yes, you are quite right based on the press release in the main page. However, the chart showing the requirements contradicts this. Note that for the box that says "For fully vaccinated people whom received their last vaccination shot fewer than 270 days ago OR received a boosters shot" there...
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    Covid surging in Bonaire

    There remains some ambiguity and misinterpretation in the guidance quoted from different sources, including some official ones unfortunately. The chart on the website attached above contradicts the quote tursiops included, but is not entirely clear either. It is my understanding that you are...
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    Dropping an exit marker

    Not a common practice but I have seen it done. Most recently, up at Karpata within 30 feet of the mooring line! Seems silly to me but possibly because someone wants to see the same standard picture at their exit. I have also seen a more minimalist approach, which would also be less costly if...
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    Covid surging in Bonaire

    I don't understand why this is repeatedly mis-interpreted, over thought, over complicated and second guessed. Tursiops explained it clearly. There is no ambiguity from Public Health Bonaire. If you leave from Anytown, USA or Tierra del Fuego or Mombasa, an antigen test taken within 24 hours of...
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