The island of Bonaire is located 90km off the coast of venezuala and is part of the Dutch Antillies. It is only 3-7miles wide and 24 miles long, and unlike most caribbean islands has an arid and dry landscape. Most of the north part of the island is national park (13,500 acres). Bonaire also provides good restaurants (from its dutch influence), shopping, guided tours, and bird watching as shore time activities. The whole of the surrounding reef is a protected marine park and has been for many, many years. The capital of Bonaire is Kralendyk and the offical currency is the Netherland Antillies Guilder, although US dollars are freely accepted. Both dutch and english are spoken on Bonaire.

Diving on Bonaire is mainly done on the western side of Banaire and around the small off shore island (1 km offshore) of Klien Bonaire. The diving in Bonaire is a wall divers paradise, with the drop off from fringing reefs very close to the shore. Caves and Caverns can be found in and around the reefs and the marine life to be found includes, calico crabs, flamingo tongue shells, finger print cowries, squirrel fish, black soldier fish, lizard fish and peacock flounders. Also worth diving is the wreck La Machaca a native built 45 foot fishing vessel which lies only 100 meters from shore.

Bonaire is a delight with its friendly marine life (due to marine park protection having existed for so long) to the fact that it caters well for snorkellers (15 sites), shore dives and boat dives all in one convenient place.