EIGHTEEN PALMS
Bonaire
Eighteen Palms is the Van der Valk Plaza Beach & Dive Resort house reef with a lot of facilities, such as a diving school, swimming pools and restaurants. The marine life is quite interesting. Snappers, octopuses, tarpon and barracuda's are frequently seen. The reef runs from 6 to 12 meters, then drops steeply to more than 30 meters. Paid diving.
Particulars
Eighteen Palms is accessible from the northwest entrance of Van der Valk Plaza Beach & Dive Resort. Park at the resort and walk to the entry point with your dive gear on. The slight current makes this a relaxing dive with sometimes surprising encounters.
Warnings
Pay attention while entering Eighteen Palms, the bottom is uneven. Paid diving.
EIGHTEEN PALMS Features
- Nicknames
- 18 Palms
- Address
- 80 Julio A. Abraham Boulevard, Kralendijk, Bonaire
- Parking
- Next to Plaza Resort
- Distance
- 40 m.
- Suitable for
- All levels
- Permit
- Bonaire Nature Tag
- Access
- Paid diving, nature fee
- Facilities
- Diving school, sunbeds , restaurants, swimming pools
- Water
- Salt
- Kind of dive
- Shore dive, snorkeling
- Current
- Limited
- Visibility
- 10 - 30 m.
- Average visibility
- 20 m.
- Depth
- 30 m.
- Bottom
- zand en koraal
- Life
- Barracuda, crab, lobster, common octopus, grouper, tarpon
- Other recreation
- Boating, yachting, beach recreation
- Emergency
- 912
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