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11/12/2006 John from Miami (Avg: 5.00 Review) - Nice site, just fantastic! A lot of Tarpon swimming near you. I love Bonaire!

05/22/2006 Jason NYC (Avg: 4.40 Review) - This was our house reef during our week long stay. We dove here about 6 times in one week, mostly all at night. Entry down steps, follow rope to drop off in about 25fsw, head north, saw lots of the usual and one small hawksbill, visibility about 75ft. Nice night dive! Current? What current! Look out for Charlie the very large 3+ft tarpon that isn't shy and likes to hunt by dive light. The Buddy facilities made shore diving here and at other sites a real pleasure. Have dinner at the Lion's Den after a night dive here!

07/25/2004 JoAn (Avg: 4.38 Review) - This was our house reef, so we dove it multiple times - morning, noon, and night! Diving can't get easier than this. They have a rope that leads you from the dock to the reef. There are also nice sandy areas that are perfect for open water training classes (and so that no coral is damaged during the classes).

07/22/2004 John White (Avg: 4.29 Review) - The 2002 trip was our second to Buddy Dive, have done about 13 dives on the house reef. I'd be hard pressed to chose between a dive starting 45 minutes before sunrise or right at sunset. Those two times are when I have done most of the house reef dives.

01/03/2004 Deborah Norton (Avg: 3.85 Review) - We stayed at Buddy Dive and found this site to be as good as almost any on the island. It is a very easy site to dive and convenient. We dove it 4 times on October 2003, including one night dive. The reef is in good condition an the marine life adundant. The frogfish hangin out just south of Buddy's were really a treat.

12/08/2003 Anonymous (Avg: 4.13 Review) - Very Nice!

10/15/2003 Marge Lawson (Avg: 4.41 Review) - Did this dive a couple times. The first time, the most unusual sighting was an unusual brown sea cucumber with black spots. The second time we did this dive we found the green frogfish that is right out in front of Buddy's in a black rope sponge, which was also covered with brittle star. We like this dive better than the La Machaca dive just to the north.

04/27/2003 Brent Houchens (Avg: 3.55 Review) - This is a pretty healthy site even after Lenny and with a lot of diver traffic. Go toward Capt. Don's and look in the hull of the "wreck". When we were there, it was rumored to be the home of a huge eel. The best thing about this reef is the resort attached to it. We stayed here, and while the food, dive shop, and lodgings are just average, the drive and dive station where you can pull up your truck and load tanks is second to none for serious shore divers. We did some boat dives, but next time we will just drive because the boats go to shore dives more often than not (Klien Bonaire is the exception, and we had some great boat dives there).

09/09/2002 Jim Haggart (Avg: 4.33 Review) - Best reef on the island. Easy entry from their dock. The reef goes from Buddy's, past Lions Dive to Capt Dons. Great for night diving. Saw Octopus, Turtles, Squid, etc…

08/30/2002 Marc R. Brouwers (Avg: 4.85 Review) - Since I work at base of this beautifull divesite(Buddy dive shop) I can only say this site can compete with any site on island, just take your time and you'll see anything you want, ofcourse I'm here daily but I see my underwater friends everyday, and I introduce them to my students very often, very wide variety of life, of corals and fish, Boy am I happy to life on Bonaire

08/21/2002 Fiona Rattray (Avg: 3.93 Review) - We stayed at Buddy Dive, so this was the house reef. Reef showing a bit of wear in places (Lenny?), good fish life though.

07/03/2002 Tony Leona (Avg: 4.04 Review) - Very nice, easy dive. Lots of fish life from lettuce sea slugs to a variety of eels and even tarpon. You can also dive "Capt. Don's" reef for Free. The good Captain has decided to charge divers that enter the water from his resort, very unlike most places in Bonaire!

06/28/2002 Dan Benson (Avg: 4.85 Review) - This is the house reef for Buddy Dive, and open to anyone. This is diving at it's easiest. We stayed at Buddy. Picked up our tank, walked 5 paces and were in the water! And despite the traffic the reef is in very good condition, with two resident Octopus, etc. The slope begins in 30' of water and falls off rapidly to 130'. The bottom continues to slope to deeper than you can go. Nice colony of garden eels at the 130'.

09/10/2001 Dean Botsford (Avg: 3.79 Review) - Gear up, jump in and go! Nice dives and good night snorkeling. Lots of sea urchins at night. Good variety of fish.

07/03/2001 Mike Field (Avg: 4.92 Review) - Very easy and enjoyable dive.

05/16/2001 Scott Chaffee (Avg: 3.89 Review) - Dove this site several times as this is the resort I stayed at. Nice dive right off our doorstep. Tons of life on this reef, several small sunken ships, can go deep if you want to. Seahorses, sharptail eels, peacock flouners, cudas, scorpionfish, all the usual and unusual reef creatures.

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