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12/27/2008 Anonymous (Avg: 3.75 Review) - Recent storm brought up some sand, and recent rainfall increased particulate. Orange frogfish atop an orange sponge at 3 meters, 20 meters south of buoy. Wonderful find!

03/23/2007 Colleen Haggart (Avg: 4.28 Review) - Very easy entry, with a good swim out to the reef. It's about the easiest entry on the island, with a nice small sandy beach.

05/22/2006 Jason NYC (Avg: 4.08 Review) - This is a lovely sandy beach at the base of a 10 foot cliff with stairs leading down to it. You can park right next to the stairs and be in the water in seconds. It can't get much easier to enter, just watch your step on the last rock/step! A bit of surf when we were here but not too bad and great visibility without current. A short trip across a sandy bottom to the drop off in about 25 ft brings you to a lovely and healthy reef system filled with life. Saw lots of the usual including 3 adult spotted drums. Not much else to say, just get in the water and enjoy a very easy and relaxing dive! I just hope the construction going on around this beach doesn't block shore access any time soon. Construction is inching southward on Bonaire.

11/27/2003 Jerry Besco (Avg: 4.86 Review) - This is my favorite site on Bonaire for several reasons. One ease of parking and entry. Abundant fish life starting at the waters edge. My first solo dive was here and a great first dive of the day due to wonderful visibility and fish life. An added bonus is the view north after the dive. You can see the entire coast and the Park.

10/15/2003 Marge Lawson (Avg: 3.64 Review) - Only did this dive once. It was a pretty average dive, nothing unusual. We were staying at the Bel Air Apartments, which is just south of Bachelor's Beach, and we did a half dozen day dives and a couple of night dives right out in front of the apartments. The rest of this review is actually for the Bel Air Apartments to Bel Mar Apartments area. We enjoyed those dives more than the dive at Bachelor's Beach. Saw morays, queen angels, tiger grouper, cowfish, tiger tail sea cucumber, lots of peacock flounder, lots of brittle stars, barracuda, spotted drum, porcupine fish, tarpon, white spotted filefish, firework, etc. Saw a large mama blue spotted coronet fish with her little 3 foot baby, and they were nice enough to hang around so I got several good photos. Saw the coral spawning on the second night dive we did here.

11/28/2002 Fiona Rattray (Avg: 4.33 Review) - This dive is not actually Bachelor's Beach, but about 100m further south at BelMar, their house reef. Gradually sloping reef after a 2 min swim though coral rubble. Since not many dive this reef, things are IMHO in pretty good shape. Bottom of reef at 110ft, hard corals, free swimming gold spotted eel at dusk in the shallows.

09/09/2002 Jim Haggart (Avg: 4.05 Review) - Very easy entry. Saw lots of fish and an Octopus.

03/06/2002 Marcelo S. Ramos (Avg: 3.90 Review) - Easy to reach and park. The stairs make your entry easier. The reef is about 5 minutes of easy swimming. Good dive about 45-60 feet (15 - 20 meters). I and my son did 2 twilight dives at Bachelor, and we appreciated it!

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