Dock diving in Bonaire

[darook]

1000 Steps is a very easy entrance, it's the walk back up that people hate.

If it were me, I'd buy a copy of Bonaire Shore Diving Made Easy and tab all the sites marked as easy/beginner. There are some very easy entries even in the south.

The new(er) Dive Guide Bonaire book is excellent as well. Since they will be boat diving too it describes the sites that Susan doesn't put in the shore diving book. They may not read about the site until after they did it but makes logging and memories easier. Every shop has it and BSDME.

 

[Dogbowl]

I already own this book, which I am “studying” right now.

But a book is a book, not as good as first hand experience. But nevertheless I’m studying it! It’s a beautiful book by the way, listing and describing 103 dive sites.

 

[KeithG]

Hi @Dogbowl,

My wife is not crazy about shore diving. Bonaire is her favorite place to dive. We stay at Den Laman and dive with Dive Friends. We do the 2 tank AM boat dives to Klein Bonaire or unreachable north sites. We generally dive Barie Reef in the afternoon off the Sand Dollar/Den Laman Pier. Best of both worlds, best for my wife.

Best, Craig

We only need 1 dock for the week. We like macro and are slow swimmers so it takes us at least 8 dives to "cover" a single site going different directions and depths. Add in a single tank afternoon boat dive and we are happy.

 

[tkaelin]

and even when your "cover" a single site, what you will find changes day by day. We have done trips to Bon where the majority of our diving is on a house reef. Diving through Capt Dons staying at Coral Paradise you actually get three reefs, Buddys, Capt. Dons and Ciff. Throw in a couple one tank boat dives to Klein and some shore diving sites by truck and it makes for a complete week of diving.