Klein Bonaire

We arrived in Bonaire at noon (due to the distance from Grenada) and took the 1pm water taxi from Kralendjik to Klein Bonaire. The ride takes about 30 minutes. What they don't tell you (perhaps they can tell by looking at all of us carrying bags with snorkel gear that we're pretty hardy) is that you have to descend a ladder into about knee deep water to walk to the beach. Luckily, no one had any issues with that. The beach is not particularly pretty or wide, and is heavily dotted with broken coral. But the attraction here is what lies beneath the water.

Over and over again I would walk about 7 minutes down the beach, enter the water and put my mask, fins and snorkel on, pass through an opening in a wall of coral just below the surface of the water, and drift, snorkeling, back to where I started. The whole thing took about 30 minutes.

I did it four times. I love this place. The beauty underwater matches or surpasses anything above. I just can't get enough of it.

We would love to dive, but two-tank dives are costing over $100 per person. Today's snorkeling cost nothing; the round trip water taxi was $15 per person. It was a pretty good trade off.