As of 24 January 2022
Thinking About Bonaire for your Next Dive Trip: “Just during our month here, December-January, we have seen the entry rules change twice, thanks to the Omicron variant,” our long-time correspondent tells us. “Bonaire hoped to keep it out, and thus enforced strict entry rules, but last fall rules were relaxed in favor of frequent testing and restrictions on gathering. In mid-January, restaurants are limited to 50% capacity and no more than four per table. That means no big dive club tables! Sadly, the government continues to let floating COVID wards, aka cruise ships, dock and overrun the island with cruise passengers driving golf carts spreading COVID. The good news is I noted fish I had not seen on the west side — hogfish, a nurse shark, abundant yellowtail snapper, more tiger and black grouper — and delighted in seeing a pair of seahorses in the same place I saw them last summer. Be careful with your rental car: long stretches of busy roads are more potholes than roadway.”