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This page is about our dive trip to Bonaire in November 2021 However, the pictures above are from our last trips in 2018 and 2019 until I am able to edit and upload pictures from this trip.

Bonaire 2021

The Donkey Divers Return To Bonaire

After several cancelations and over two years away from our favorite dive destination, we are returning to the island of Bonaire for a two week visit of stress-free diving. We originally scheduled this vacation for June of 2020. When that was cancelled, we tried rescheduling a couple of times but Bonaire did not open up to American tourists until May of 2021 and the first time that everyone in our group could reschedule our trip was the middle of November. That is when college football is just getting interesting and it required me being out of the country for last 3 Saturdays of the regular season, including THE GAME.

 But it was worth it. We had a great trip. I got in 54 dives and we dove some sites that we had never dove before. All of our dives were shore dives. We didn't make any boat dives. Since several sites can only be accessed via boat, that did limit our selection but we were still able to experience 34 different sites. I have made over 600 dives on Bonaire since my first trip in 1997 but this trip I managed to dive 5 sites that I had never dove before.

We had 8 divers and one snorkeler in our group. Not everyone made as many dives as I did. It was a vacation, not a competition but I did win. Not everyone likes to make night dives. Some entries looked a little challenging to some, some wanted to spend some time out of the water to enjoy the sun or beach, nap, shop or explored other topside attractions. We didn't make any night dives the last few days due to box jellyfish in the area at that time.

 

Dive Log

One of the things I like about Bonaire is that you can dive any time you want and as much as you want.

We usually eat breakfast and lunch in the room to save time and get in more dives.

 

Trip Logistics

Dates: November 13 to November 27, 2021

Airline: Delta

Accomidations: Belmar Oceanfront Apparments

Dive Operation: Buddy Dive / Belmar

Gas: Nitrox (included at no extra charge with our package)

Booked through: The Travel Shop

My Dive Statistics

 

Video

 

 

Dining

While we usually eat breakfast and lunch in the apartment to save time and get more dives, we like to eat out for dinner most nights. We have our favorite group of restaurants on the island that we usually eat at but this year we spent two weeks on the island so we had more time to find new ones. Here are some of the places we ate on our trip in 2021.

Bobbejans BBQ: We always eat at Bobbejans at least once while we are on the island. They are only open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Normally, we eat at their petit backyard restaurant but this year they were not offering dine-in service so we took advantage of their take away service and ate back at the apartments. We enjoyed their food on the first night of our trip and again a week later.

Cuba Compagnie: Great food with indoor or outdoor dining.

 

Mona Lisa: I always have to have a meal at Mona Lisa when I am on the island. The food and service is excellent but their apple strudel with cinnamon ice cream is my favorite dish there. We enjoyed two meals here on this trip. (see picture above)

 

 

 

Rum Runners: An outdoor restaurant right on the water at Captain Don's Resort north of town. Nice variety of foods with a great view of the sunset and Klein Bonaire.

One day we bought our lunch from the Cactus Blue Food Truck which is usually at Donkey Beach Monday to Thursday. Thamara makes great burgers and lionfish sandwiches.