Boka Bartol

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What you'll see (19)

Stoplight ParrotfishSparisoma virideseen 21× near here

French AngelfishPomacanthus paruseen 12× near here

Queen ParrotfishScarus vetulaseen 11× near here

Spanish HogfishBodianus rufusseen 8× near here

Caribbean Bluehead WrasseThalassoma bifasciatumseen 8× near here

Puddingwife WrasseHalichoeres radiatusseen 8× near here

Blade Fire CoralMillepora complanataseen 8× near here

Lettuce Sea SlugElysia crispataseen 8× near here

Beaded PeriwinkleCenchritis muricatusseen 8× near here

Lobed Star CoralOrbicella annularisseen 8× near here

Slippery DickHalichoeres bivittatusseen 7× near here

Yellowtail DamselfishMicrospathodon chrysurusseen 7× near here

Schoolmaster SnapperLutjanus apodusseen 7× near here

Green Sea TurtleChelonia mydasseen 6× near here

Elkhorn CoralAcropora palmataseen 6× near here

ConeyCephalopholis fulvaseen 6× near here

Grooved Brain CoralDiploria labyrinthiformisseen 6× near here

Smooth TrunkfishLactophrys triqueterseen 6× near here

Black TriggerfishMelichthys nigerseen 5× near here

Planning a trip

8–14 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

18,270km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 47 dive sites within 25km, enough for several days of diving.

When people dive it

Busiest Sep · almost nobody dives it Jun, Jul.

From 18,217 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 30m

door to water, each way · 3 legs

FlightBonaire (BON)~26h 51mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~9 minShore diving the whole island; the sites are a hire car and a walk.Directions →
Dive boatBoka Bartol~30 minThe last leg is always a boat — a dive site has no address.

📍 Boka Bartol 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°18.289'N 68°23.853'W
Position: 12.3048, -68.3975

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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.