If you are unfamiliar with this region of the world, perhaps a couple of charts will assist you in locating the area.
Bonaire is the third of a group of islands sometime referred to as the A, B, C islands, standing for Aruba, Curacao, and Bonaire. As you can see from the map, they are north of Venezuela. |
Bonaire
Diving Bonaire is largely conducted along the Western Coast of the island and along the smaller island, Klein Bonaire.
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Bonaire is one of the most leisurely dive sites that all can enjoy. The waters are calm and clear, there is no discernable current, and the diving is extremely easy, but the area has sufficient diversity to satisfy all divers.
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Bonaire is also known as one of the most contentious areas in the world, and very concerned with protecting its sea life. As an aside, Bonaire was once an area using slaves to support its sole industry, salt mining. Left over from those vintage years is one of the slave huts where they lived.
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We enjoyed Bonaire so much on our first trip that we were very pleased to return again in 2002 to join another group of photographers for the Second Digital Shootout. This was our second experience using a digital camera underwater, though the majority of our images were captured on 35 mm and then scanned for use here.
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You may enlarge an image by clicking on it.
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The Hilma Hooker lies in 100 feet of water and is a definite attraction when diving Bonaire. We were also fortunate to meet with the infamous "Captain Don" on our first trip to the island.
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