Buddy's Reef

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What you'll see (17)

Stoplight ParrotfishSparisoma virideseen 414× near here

Queen ParrotfishScarus vetulaseen 346× near here

Western Atlantic TrumpetfishAulostomus maculatusseen 291× near here

French AngelfishPomacanthus paruseen 267× near here

Smooth TrunkfishLactophrys triqueterseen 253× near here

Caribbean Bluehead WrasseThalassoma bifasciatumseen 249× near here

GraysbyCephalopholis cruentataseen 238× near here

Princess ParrotfishScarus taeniopterusseen 234× near here

Schoolmaster SnapperLutjanus apodusseen 227× near here

Greater Star CoralMontastraea cavernosaseen 220× near here

Spanish HogfishBodianus rufusseen 210× near here

Redband ParrotfishSparisoma aurofrenatumseen 197× near here

Bicolor DamselfishStegastes partitusseen 195× near here

Yellowtail DamselfishMicrospathodon chrysurusseen 188× near here

Banded ButterflyfishChaetodon striatusseen 182× near here

Yellowhead WrasseHalichoeres garnotiseen 181× near here

Caribbean Ocean SurgeonfishAcanthurus tractusseen 181× near here

Planning a trip

8–14 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

18,277km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 63 dive sites within 25km, enough for several days of diving.

When people dive it

Busiest Sep · almost nobody dives it Jul.

From 33,322 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

Dive Crew is a dive group from Singapore. Members plan trips here, log their dives, and share their photos of each site.

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Moon and tides

Waning gibbous

71% lit · day 20 of the lunar month

Neap tides

Neap tides — the smallest range of the month, so the weakest currents. Easy conditions and usually the clearest water, though a drift site may barely drift.

New 10 Oct Full 26 Oct

Phase computed here, not fetched. This is the spring/neap cycle, which sets how hard the water moves — not a tide table: no free source publishes high and low water for Southeast Asian reefs, and the range peaks a day or two after the moon does, by an amount that varies with the coast. For times on the day, ask the operator.

Getting there

~27h 21m

door to water, each way · 2 legs

FlightBonaire (BON)~26h 51mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Dive boatBuddy's Reef~30 minShore diving the whole island; the sites are a hire car and a walk.

📍 Buddy's Reef on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Bonaire

Times marked ~ are estimated from straight-line distance and will be roughly right at best. The road legs are the ones Google Maps answers properly; it will not plan the ferry or the dive boat at all. A dive site's coordinates put a pin in open water, so the map link drops you on the site, not on a jetty.

Details

Island: Bonaire
Country: Bonaire
Marks: 12°10.262'N 68°17.329'W
Position: 12.1710, -68.2888

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Where it is

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Nearby

Sightings and photographs from iNaturalist contributors, research-grade records within 6km, under Creative Commons licences. Counts are what divers and snorkellers have bothered to log — a common fish with few records is common all the same.