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THE ABCs OF BONAIRE

Bonaire is a Dutch island, one of the three “ABC” islands: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao. Bonaire is the least-developed of the three—hence its unique beauty.

As a longtime cruiser, I knew little about Bonaire outside of its reputation as a diving mecca of the Caribbean. The island is not exactly as well-known to boaters as, say, the more easily accessible St. Thomas or Tortola.

But everything I had heard about Bonaire’s diving—pristine conditions, 54 official “walk-in” sites from the shore, another 31 mooring buoys for sites

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