Best Guide Book for Bonaire?

[cinder4320]

I have heard of "Bonaire Shore Diving Made Easy" (http://www.infobonaire.com/bsdme/) but was wondering what the consensus was as to the "best" guide book (most accurate, greatest descriptions, etc.)? We need something to fill the time between booking the trip and actually going!!

Miranda

 

[flatwood]

I think that Bonairetalk.com will give you some very godd info. Cheers.

 

[b1gcountry]

Check out the lonely planet Guidebook. Very up to date, and pretty good descriptions.
Tom

 

[Jetwrench]

Desciptions and details about what subject? Dining? Activities other than diving? As for diving, IMO you will not find a better reference than BSDME. For tips and info on other subjects, follow flatwood's advice and go to BonaireTalk. There are many subjects on that board where you can ask questions and get prompt, up to date info. Be warned you may be sucked in to the looney bin.

Jet

 

[CUunderH2O]

For diving we used BSDME together with http://www.bonairediveguide.com/ (also has link to dowloadable PDF version and is available free on island). For everything else, I researched it all on bonairetalk.com. Have fun planning your trip!

 

[Cecil]

What Jet said,there reams and reams of info on www.bonairetalk.com and it's all free well except for that crazyness in Bonaire Chat.

 

[yahtzee]

We always carried BSDME in our truck and it had simple, straightforward info on all the dive sites. By choosing sites we wanted to go to from the book and then asking the guy who ran our dive shop if they were good sites for the particular day, we found all the sites to our liking. Good luck!

 

[robint]

I have heard of "Bonaire Shore Diving Made Easy" (http://www.infobonaire.com/bsdme/) but was wondering what the consensus was as to the "best" guide book (most accurate, greatest descriptions, etc.)? We need something to fill the time between booking the trip and actually going!!

Miranda

I really like this guide - its nice that it is compact but still has each dive site on a separate page and lots of room for notes. We are going to Bonaire in June and the friends we are going with (all are Bonaire veterans) told us to get it to study ahead of time to pick out dives that interest us and mark them. That way when you get ready to go out each day you can flip through it and see pages marked and any notes. While there you can mark the sites you do and what you saw or heard discussed at dinner the night before.

Yes, I really like all the online sites too but I really like that I can keep this book in my dive log as an additional resource.

robint