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Snorkeling & beach time in Bonaire


Brobbins246

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While I'm in Bonaire next year, my daughter and I would like to snorkel over the National Marine Park in semi-deep water off the side of a boat, not just from shore.  But we'd also like to spend some time relaxing on No Name Beach at Kline Bonaire during the same excursion.  RCI has a shore excursion that allows us to do both of these, but I'd like to see some other options with non-RCI excursions.  All the others I see tend to be one or the other - like a single or double dip snorkel with no beach time (like Woodwinds excursions) or water taxi or excursion to Kline Bonaire with snorkel equipment, but you have to snorkel from shore.  I did find that one of the water taxi companies provides off-boat drift snorkeling with beach time, but only once a week and I don't think it'll be on the day we're there.  Do you know of anything else I haven't found yet?  thank you!

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I don't know how much time you have in port but since there is a water taxi that will take you to No Name Beach, could you make two excursions..take one of the snorkeling excursions (Sea Cow or Woodwinds) and then do the water taxi to the beach on your own afterwards?  I know logistically it may not be that easy..but if you really want to get away from doing the Royal excursion may be something to look into.

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So I looked into this, and I can do the Woodwinds drift snorkel in the afternoon, with an excursion they have from 12:30 - 3:45.  It departs from Divi Flamingo Beach Resort & Casino, south of the cruise pier.  I'll take a water taxi to Kline Bonaire for a couple hours of beach time early that morning, and it looks like those pick up a little ways north of the cruise port. 

Is it best to reserve the water taxi in advance, or do they usually have plenty of space available?  I'll be heading there straight off the ship as soon as we dock, so there might be a rush of people then I'm thinking?

Also, if we're tight on time between everything, including grabbing lunch before snorkeling, how easy would it be to catch a cab from the water taxi pier to Divi resort?  I'm not sure if we'll want to hoof it the whole way walking quickly in the sun.

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