if you are coming to Bonaire to scuba dive these are the Dives you do not want to miss coming up
and if you're new here yell I'm Christine Lozada with where in the world is CL and I make travel
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consider subscribing I spent the last two weeks diving this island I also Dove here last year
and these are the Dives especially if your trip is not very long you do not want to miss
I know you know that I'm going to put this dive site on the list because it is so popular and
also just so awesome and we're talking about 1 000 steps a beautiful spot that's on the North
part of the island what's amazing about 1000 steps well actually let's talk about this first
it's not actually 1 000 steps thank goodness it's around 64 steps but it's named after you know the
whole Shore diving thing when you come out of the water it might be 64 steps going down but
it's gonna feel like a thousand going up and it really really does one thousand steps takes the
win for being an amazing shallow-ish dive that has a ton of light and just The Little Mermaid song
is playing the whole time because you got tons and tons of tiny fish everywhere around you so
take a drive north it's on the narrow shared Road there's really not that many parking spots either
and get ready to see tons of tiny fish and you might find some other big things we found a pretty
big eel on our dive which I was very excited to see but this dive in terms of getting into
the water on a scale of one to ten is on the one slash two entry side super easy it's a one it's
going back up those thousand steps that makes it feel a little bit more challenging but actually
getting into the water is very easy and awesome for snorkelers as well this is one thousand steps
next on this list is the salt pier and the salt Pier just wins for variety and diversity in
other words it's kind of the dive where there's something for everybody you'll see you'll see big
fish you'll see small fish you'll see schools of big fish schools of small fish if you want to see
little itty bitty tiny fish you can hang out next to the big Coral or if you want to see some eels
look amongst the Rocks there's so many things here and you never know what you'll see at Salt Pier
every time I come it's something different but something that is guaranteed are these beautiful
stunning views of what it looks like when you're diving underneath the pier it's just such a unique
experience and it's such a great place to find so many fish hiding amongst here as well as things
growing on the pier what also makes this dive awesome is that it's a really easy entry so on
a scale of one to ten we're talking about a two or a three to get in sometimes there are waves
but not usually and this is also a great place to see things in the shallows also so you see
a lot of snorkelers that come here ooh helpful to know if there is a boat that's being loaded
with the salt then you cannot dive at the salt Pier when there's a boat around in other words
when the big boat is there they don't really want you scuba diving under it with things potentially
falling off that boat onto you while you're diving sounds kind of dangerous so just keep that in mind
there was a boat that was there for a portion of the time I was on the island but I still got in
a few Dives at this spot because it's one of my favorite spots salt pure variety and diversity
there's something to love for everybody by the way if you're getting some value out of
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I'm curious what diet sites you would recommend for people that they should not miss we're all a
community Let's help each other out and let's talk about this next one which is one of my favorites
if you like turtles even at least you must come to this dive site and I'm referring to Turtle City
here you can see 57 turtles in 57 minutes my mind was blown going on this dive and literally going
through the exercise of counting it was exhausting but this is a dive that you can do on the east
side of Bonaire Bonaire East Coast Divers with my guys Fred and Sid they're awesome I need to
tell you an honest story which is last year when I went diving in Bonaire I made a huge mistake in
that I booked this boat dive as my final dive and I was like oh my gosh I can't believe I'm
only doing this once which means I booked this as one of my first Dives coming back in 2022
and then I did it repeatedly so I went out on a total of five Dives with Fred and Sid all amazing
but Turtle cities in really amazing spot and let me tell you why what's really unique about Loch
Bay is that this area is very very protected so the way the reef is shaped Etc it's easy for the
turtles to sleep and hide here and be safe from predators and not only that the grass that they
eat grows here and one thing that Sid taught me is that the turtles will grow 30 percent faster
in Turtle city than they will out in the open ocean so I mean you think about it if you are
a turtle you would just hang out in Turtle city all day and eat and sleep that's what I would do
but I digress so in Turtle City you will just see so many turtles to the point where your neck will
hurt from looking around and trying to figure out which one to look at and every time I was looking
at one I'd realize I was swimming over one and every time I started filming that one that was
swimming underneath me there would be be three behind me and so this is what turtle city is like
it's an amazing spot as a bucket list destination for divers you should not miss Turtle City even if
you just a little bit like turtles ooh helpful tip one other thing to know is that Fred Sid Bonaire
East Coast Divers those guys are busy so check the info in the description below because not only do
they book up very quickly but they also have plans for taking people out on boat Dives on other parts
of the islands that you might not want to miss out on so I know I won't be missing out on that
but check out Fred and said Bon Air East Coast Divers oh you know what let's give you a bonus
tip because or rather a bonus dive site because it should be on this list white hole white hole an
amazing dive site if you do you have the option of doing two Dives with them in the morning or just
one single afternoon dive and if you do the two Dives they will take you to White what's unique
about Whitehall is if you're like me and you you get motion sickness and seasickness kind of easy
even though the boat ride out is very very very short it's actually desirable that it's very bumpy
with lots of waves because when that happens all of the things will hide in the white hole in other
words it's kind of a break in the reef and which is the Sandy white hole and here you can find a
lot of rays that are hiding in the sand you'll find the big Tarpon I was here with with pretty
smooth conditions if you watch my other video I talk about how I'm in Bonaire with some kind
of unique weather and a lot of rain which caused the bay to be calm so I call it kind of an empty
white hole but still found some really great finds in here so honorable mention white holes
this next one is something special and I literally mean something special because
the name of the dive site is something special if if you're like me and Eels give you all the
feels you're going to like this dive I I don't know when I first started diving I hated seeing
eels they were so scary looking and now I am so excited to see them anytime that they poke their
little heads out and this is a place where you can see a variety of different kinds of eels and
they're kind of everywhere on this dive I can't guarantee you an eel I can guarantee you a turtle
turtle City that's for sure but there are a lot of eels on this dive oh here's one thing I can
guarantee you'll see you'll see a lot of these beautiful beautiful anemones they're just so
pretty and sometimes they're in different colors and the way they just Sway in the water it's just
really beautiful this is a shallow dive though and it's right in the middle of town and it's a
very very easy entry we're talking about a one and there's almost like no waves here because
there's there's boats around and it makes it really easy as a night dive so if you're into
night diving this is a really great place for that but at something special you can expect to
see those boats like I talked about which I've personally love just seeing the Shadows of the
boats and the way that they're tied in in the water and seeing what's growing around their
anchors I love to see that but you'll also see a ton of cowfish here there's lots of Big Sandy
patches and there's just lots of fish on this dive one other unique thing you'll see the reef
restoration project here so it's really you unique to see it in the water sometimes you'll see some
fish swimming around it but it's kind of a unique thing to take a look at this is something special
I think the South part of Bonaire is so beautiful Let's Take a Ride South and let's go check out
the hooker not the kind of hooker you might be thinking of I'm talking about the Hilma hooker
this is a wreck dive and this wreck or rather this ship sunk in 1984 and Hilma hooker the top
of the ship is at 60 feet which means this is a deep dive the Mast is at around 100 feet so this
is a deeper dive where you can expect to see some big Tarpon and just beautiful views of the wreck
that's down here definitely a cool spot to check out especially if you like doing wreck Dives and
I have to give a quick shout out and thank you to one blue ocean and hen Thorne he's been traveling
to this island for over 20 years and has helped me to put together some of the dive notes I'm sharing
with you today and this is this is my Roundup of the best dies if you have a favorite dive
it in the comments below we're all a community let's give each other recommendations and also
I have another video that talks about kind of a Roundup of other Dives on the island so
info on that in the description below but are you ready for my favorite one is it my favorite one I
guess they're all kind of my favorite ones I don't know this one's pretty special let's talk about it
this dive I'm so excited to tell you about is red sleeve this dive site is named for the slave Huts
that are at the dive site and what's so unique about this dive is well one it's it's like a box
of chocolates you never know what you're gonna get this dive is located kind of on the corner
of the island in the South which means not only do you have a really unique profile that reminds me
of like a it reminds me of skiing double black diamonds it that's what I felt like it's just
this really big Sandy patch that just drops super steep into the shoulder and this kind of profile
of a dive isn't something I saw on other dive sites around the island so it's a really unique
dive site and because it's on the corner and usually usually the current is ripping in this
area you'll you never know what you're gonna get you never know what's going to be come and buy
you Swimming by you but what was unique was on the day I was there diving there was no current and in
place of there being current there were a lot of rays like tons of stingrays I everywhere I looked
there there was a stingray and and then another Stingray and then a stingray swimming under me
and I'm just like wow okay all the Stingrays are in the house at Red slave but aside from
that we also got a lot of really cool schools of fish just lots of them and it was really neat to
see the different kinds of schools of fish that we were seeing I mean we even got like a little
mini School of oceanic triggers I mean I don't know what fish gives better side eye than Oceanic
triggers if you have an answer let me know in the comments below but Oceanic triggers have
like a mean side eye which I love and I mean their mouths just look hilarious anyway we saw a lot of
these on the dive normally this entry exit is a six or a seven and that strong current makes it
more difficult I got I got pretty good conditions on this day but red slave such an amazing dive Bon
Air diving is so amazing if you had some fun with me in this video cheers that like button consider
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you know about we're all a community Let's help each other out and you know what let's get out of
the water and do some other fun things spawn air is full of Adventures to be had come join me in
this next video of things to do when you're not diving and I'll see you over there ciao