left Burlington Vt at 6:00am
Arrived in Bonaire at 9:00 pm
after 2 layovers JFK/San Juan
Long day but well worth it.

Snorkeling Day 1
Tori's- Amazing, saw an octopus after only 5 mins int he water, spotted eagle ray, green moray

Windsock- Many large schools of small fish, spotted moray

Andrea II- Beautiful corals, plant life was amazing

Day 2
Lac bay- lots of small stuff

Boca bartol(in park) Beautiful purple sea fans everywhere.

Playa Funchi (in park) Large barracuda, Scorpionfish? Large spotted moray

Day 3

Windsock at 6:00am open corals(awesome) Lots of eels in various shades, one was black wuth orange lines. Large balloon fish.

1000 steps- Nice corals, many fish

Karpata- Again nice corals

Day 4

Klien-
No Name
Ebo's
Jerry's

Awesome stovepipe sponges Huge brains

Day 5
Bachelors- easy entry large schools of small and medium sized fish (thousands) by boat dock on left

Alice in wonderland
Aquarius - saw another octopus

Cai- Large turtle, Big spotted eagle rays other Large fish, couldnt stay long as we were getting pulled out to sea.

Will be scuba certified before i go back,boy it looks cool down there.

Food
Kontiki- Awesome, every meal was top notch
Ribs Factory-Great ribs
it rains fishes- OK menu a little deceiving(cocktail sauce means mayo)
Zeezicht-So-so
Chibi-Chibi- Great food, nice place to look at the water while eating,Spotted moray came from under the deck
Richards- Awesome, Great food good views.

Hope to be back in Bonaire soon, would love to get down a little deeper.
Thanks for all the Great info This site was awesome

Dave K

Thanks for the report Dave. Happy to read you folks had a good time!

Aren't you glad you came home to this nice weather? lol

My kind of report Dave - mostly diving!! Was there much storm damage at Boca Bartol? I've dove Playa Benge a couple of times and while it's an outstanding dive, I noticed some storm damage on the reef there.

Marcus it was hard to tell as we were not in the water long the water was pretty rough.

Playa Benge was closed so we were not able to check it out

Really. Any idea why Playa Benge was closed? Thanks.

Not quite sure, there was a big log blocking the road to it and the park ranger had told when we went in that it was closed.

Addition to trip report:
For anyone who hasnt been to Bonaire, this was my first trip.
I have been snorkeling in the Bahamas, Grand Cayman, Puerto Rico, Cozumel and Roatan.

Until now Roatan was by far my favorite, I highly recommend Bonaire to anyone who is looking for a pure diving/snokeling vacation the diversity from site to site was amazing. So many fish,corals,things i had never seen anywhere else and all so close to shore.

David,

Was this the black/orange eel you saw? If so it was a chain moray.

How about this? It is a Chain Moray and they are neat to see.

Yes, thats the one it was neat to see