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Buddy
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Our
"base" for the exploration of Bonaire is Buddy Dive, a relatively
small and well-organized resort on the leeward side of Bonaire.
The resort has a nice restaurant, Dock of the Bay, on the premises, where we will have breakfast and dinner while enjoying the oceanview and fish right in front of the private dock. All the rooms have a comfortable seating area, T.V., telephone and a fully equiped kitchen. 
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Snorkeling
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 Bonaire is truly a fish-lovers paradise. The waters around Bonaire have been protected for 25 years, resulting in friendly fish that are unafraid of snorkelers and divers. 
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 Ranging from an inch-long goby to a three feet tarpon, there is a huge variety of fish, and all of them are harmless and unafraid. 
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Displaying a variety of colors, this scrawled filefish is well adapted to live in the complex environment of a tropical reef. |
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 Even without colors, the black and white fish such as the smooth trunkfish and the spotted drum have beautiful patterns. |
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 Besides the interesting fish-life, there are also a lot of invertebrates worth seeing: the incredible orange cup corals, Christmas tree worms, anemones, octopi and Caribbean and Spanish lobsters. |
 
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Island
Exploration 
Besides exploring the tropical coral reef, we will also spent some time on different parts of the island. One of the planned activities is a snorkel in the mangrove areas of Lac Bay, where we will see a seagrass environment, including juvenile fish, burrowing shrimp and the peculiar upside-down jellyfish.  |
 
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We
will use our private vans to tour various parts of the island and
learn more about the culture, history and wildlife. Bonaire is known
for its wild donkeys, endemic parrots, lizards and iguanas. and has
one of the biggest breeding colonies of flamingos in the world.
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 One of the oldest, and biggest "industries" on the island is the production of solar salt. The crystalization ponds of the Cargill Salt company take up most of the flat, southern part of the island. We'll learn more about the way salt is made, both now and in the past when most of the hard labour was done by slaves that lived in these small shelters along the coast. Dive- and snorkel-sites in the Bonaire Marine Park are marked with the yellow stones on the picture above. |
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