Bonaire

William (Billy) Albert Putman
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Bonaire Dive Trips

I have been to Bonaire eight times and stayed different places. Each place had something I liked, so they were all good.
2006 Buddy's Dive Resort, May 30 - Jun 3, 2006
2011 Buddy's Dive Resort, Aug 1 - 8, 2011.
2012 Divi Flamingo, Oct 7 - 13, 2012
2014 Captan Don's Habitat, Aug 29 - Sep 6, 2014
2017 Buddy's Dive Resort, Sep 2 - 9, 2017
2018 Captain Don's Habitat, Sep 1 - 8, 2018
2019 Captain Don's Habitat, Jul 27 - Aug 3, 2019
2022 Captain Don's Habitat, Aug 27 - Sep 3, 2022
2023 Captain Don's Habitat, Jul 22 - Aug 5, 2022

Buddy's Dive Resort

Buddy's Dive Resort is north of town and they, also, have a location in town. It has an excellent boat operation, and one of the best drive-throughs to pick up tanks. The breakfast bar is amazing, and the palapa bar is great! Buddy's does a wonderful job at hiring good staff and dive masters.

Divi Flamingo

Divi Flamingo is near town so its a two minute walk to restaurants. The lockers are located on the boat dock so there is no need to carry gear back and forth. I liked the rooms because of the screened-in porch.

Captain Don's Habitat

Captain Don's is north of town, nort of Buddy's Dive. It has some great dive sites. It is within swimming distance of the Cliff dive site. The lockers are within a little cave-grotto beneath the resort, so one can gear-up for a shore dive in the shade. The dive staff is knowledgable and friendly. They have a dedicated tech staff for any dive equipment problems.

Common Carribbean Reef Fish

French grunts, trunkfish, sanddiver, butterfly fish, angelfish, squirrelfish, porcupine fish, sharpnose pufferfish, grouper, spotted drum, blue tang, peacock flounder, scrawled cowfish, filefish, yellow goatfish, yellowtail snapper, yellowhead jawfish, great barracuda, tarpon, lionfish, chub, jack, damselfish and sergeant major, frog fish, stone fish, scorpion fish, eagle ray, stingray

People
Buddy's Dive palapa bar Bill and Bill 07/05/2011	Buddy's Dive 07/06/2011 Dive Masters: Irene and Franchesca	Buddy's palapa Bar 09/08/2017 Dive Masters: Julia, Guillermo and Gordon	Captain Dons Dive Staff 09/08/2018 Netal, Gary and Ricardo
Places
Bonaire Island Map (Click for larger image)	Captain Don's Resort 09/07/2018 Reef Freedom Dive Boat	Captain Don's Dive Gear Lockers Grotto under dive shop	Iquana Captain Don's Dive Resort
Dive Sites
Buddy's Dive Resort Leaf coral and fire coral	Buddy's Dive Resort - Juvenile Damselfish and Christmas tree worm	Buddy's Dive Resort Brown tube sponge	Buddy's Dive Resort Christmas tree worm
Eighteen Palms - fish swarm	Eighteen Palms - sea anemone	Eighteen Palms - trunkfish	Hilma Hooker Underwater Wreck
Hilma Hooker underwater wreck Bill Pamplin at 80ft	Kelly's Reef Sand diver	Munk's Haven purple tube coral	Munk's Haven Damselfish and Grasby
Munk's Haven 09/03/2014 Sand diver	Reef Scientifico 09/05/2014 Scorpion fish	Klein Bonaire - Hands Off Underwater scenery	Pufferfish - Karpeca dive site
Red and White Banded Coral Shrimp Cliff dive site 09/03/2018	Juvenile Drum 09/03/2018 Cliff dive site	Adult Drum 09/04/2014 Bloodlet dive site	Anemone Cleaner Shimp and eggs Cliff dive site 08/03/2018
Squid 09/04/2014 Bloodlet dive site	Fish and Coral 09/03/2018 Cliff dive site	Frogfish 09/03/2014 Munks Haven dive site	Tarpon 09/01/2014 Eighteen Palms dive site