Dive site · sea · Bonaire National Marine Park
🇧🇶 Alice in Wonderland
Kralendijk, Bonaire, Bonaire
The classic example of Bonaire's southern double reef — an inner reef, a sand valley, and a second reef beyond it that most divers never realise is there.
- Dives here
- 1
- Deepest
- 27.3 m
- Water
- salt
- First · last
- 2012
- Position
- 12.0998, -68.2853
Revision 1 · changed 10 Oct 2026
History
- r1 10 Oct 2026 Imported from the personal log · Dennis Bakhuis
Site data © divelog-sites contributors (ODbL), descriptions and maps CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf
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- Entry / exit
- Marker
- Shoreline
- Depth contour
- Dive path
- Wall / drop-off
- Shallows
- Coral / reef
- Sand
- Depth
Bonaire's double reef at its classic site: a shallow terrace, the inner reef from about 5 m sloping to a sand valley at 18-20 m, and the outer reef beyond it, less visited, dropping into deep water (bonaire.com, site descriptions). The outer-reef width and the route across the valley are illustrative. Coastline and dive-site markers © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Positions are approximate.
Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf
The south coast of Bonaire has something the rest of the island does not: a double reef. An inner reef starts at about 5 m and slopes down to a sand valley at 18–20 m; and then, out across the sand, a second reef rises again and drops away into deep water.
Alice in Wonderland is the site named for it. The first reef is the one everybody dives; the crossing of the sand valley to the second reef is the thing that makes it worth the extra planning, because the outer reef is less visited, in better condition, and has the bigger animals.
Dived 10 August 2012 to 27.3 m — so the far side.
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1 dive at Alice in Wonderland
- 10 Aug 2012 with Kim date10 Aug 2012 depth27.3 m time53 min water—
Sources
- First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)