Which dive-shop/schoo has the best house reef, to your opinion?
Wannadive, Yellow Submarine, Dive Inn, Photo Tours, Toucan, Blue Divers, or Buddy?

Toos

I vote for Buddy's

None of the above.
I vote for the reef at Divi Flamingo/Divi Dive Bonaire. Calabas is awesome at all depths! The coral and sponges have not been damaged by Lenny or Ivan, and the fish/sea critter diversity is stupendous. They also have about 50 resident squid.
Tish

As a person that snorkels, I vote Divi. The fish life under their docks and cement pier is incredible!

Of your choices, I'd pick Buddy's. However, Divi is also an excellent choice.

Buddy's is great. You can hang a right at the dropoff and explore the reef and wreck in front of Capt. Don's, or hang a left and check out Bari Reef in front of Sand Dollar. Over the years I have seen tons of fish life there, including: lots of tarpon, schools of silversides, numerous octopus, frogfish, a baby seahorse one year, turtles, squid, tons of juveniles including small schools of tiny sargent majors and angelfish under the piers and ladders, barracuda, pufferfish, all types of morays, and just about anything else you can think of. Must say, however, that your chances of seeing any or all of these are probably just as good at any house reef.

It's Divi, but we don't want to advertise it. We want to keep it for ourselves.

My vote is Buddy's. Check out dive, night dives, and the last dive the day before flying out, I never got tired of it.

Calibas at Divi and Dive-Inn is number one in the years we have been going to Bonaire. The Internet cable on the seafloor comes out just north of Dive-Inn and makes a great marker when diving that reef. In 1997 (before Lenny) The Front Porch was a great site. Now it looks like the surface of the moon. What a shame.... The public beach (Cha Cha) is in front of Dive-Inn and lots of parking. Easy entry and exit and Dive-Inn has a diveshop for all... Ron

After Lenny left a moon landscape of Front porch in 1997, a lot has happend.

Over the last years, a large concentration of fish has gathered for daily meetings of Bongo's Beach.

The diversity is so big at the moment that we cannot even start counting them. At the moment, we've got a s**tload of tuna hunting all the little fish just a 100 feet of shore. During night dives out here, we've encountered tarpon, common snook, green murray, turtle and so on!!!

At the 3 wrecks there's habitats of younger fish hiding for the hunters while nursing their little ones. Every now and then (and that's a yes at the moment), we've got seahorses and frogfish watching everything happen.

If you're looking for a beautiful reef, I need to agree, a moon landscape, if you're looking for the most action underwater during a nightdive, come and decide for yourself!!!

Of course, the biggest pro on diving front porch is your deco fluids available @ Bongo's after a 16 second walk!!!

For me, Buddy's is OK for night dives, expecially with the tarpons coming hunting with the help of your light (they realy come very close and they are huge!!!). It 's also is an easy dive for divers with not so much experience with night dives.

I think the "House Reefs" from Harbor View up to the desalinzation facility are all about the same. The marine life, general quality of the reef and so on ... its all about equal. There are a few minor features that are different such as the web cam and some very small wrecks, but its all pretty similar.

We all think of "dive sites" by the names given but these are pretty artificial boundaries. The environment is pretty similar in adjoining sites.


There is also a tendency to think of this or that reef as better for this or that because of the season one might have happened to dive it. It all changes from month to month. In my mind, the resorts house reefs are all very similar in terms of what is possible to see.

I would not choose a resort based on any perception of its house reef. I would choose it based on price and the kind of service that you want.