Dennis Bakhuis

Dive site · sea · Bonaire National Marine Park

🇧🇶 Cliff

Kralendijk, Bonaire, Bonaire

One of the very few genuinely vertical walls on Bonaire, just north of Kralendijk, and the only site in this log dived twice a week apart.

Dives here
2
Deepest
27.7 m
Water
salt
First · last
2012 · 2012

Revision 1 · changed 10 Oct 2026

History
  1. 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

1 map

Reef plateau 0-9 mDrop-off ~10 mVertical wall 9-22 mDrop-off ~10 m↓30 m↓40 mOut, south along the wall, back · 317 mSteel pipe (marker)Stairs at the yellow stoneSponges and black coral on the wall↓18 mN50 m
  • Entry / exit
  • Point of interest
  • Shoreline
  • Depth contour
  • Dive path
  • Wall / drop-off
  • Pipe / cable
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Site map · 1 object · 1 path · max 40 m

One of Bonaire's few vertical walls: shore entry down the stairs at the yellow stone behind Dive Friends at Hamlet Oasis, a narrow reef plateau and, about 40-60 m out, a vertical wall from about 9 m to 22 m, then the reef slope to 40 m (divers-guide.com, bonaire.com, dive-centre pages). The steepest, narrowest stretch is just south of the stairs; sources disagree whether to swim north or south of the steel pipe marker. The steel pipe is placed just north of the stairs from a dive-centre description; the 30 m and 40 m contours and the route are illustrative. Coastline and dive-site markers © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Positions are approximate.

Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf

Most of Bonaire is a slope. Cliff, just north of Kralendijk, is one of the few places where it is actually a wall — a vertical face from about 12 m dropping straight down, undercut in places, hung with sponges and black coral.

Dived twice, on 10 and 16 August 2012, to 27.7 m. It was the first dive of the trip and one of the last, which is usually a sign someone liked it.

Dived here with

Kim

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2 dives at Cliff

  1. UV-nachtduik 16 Aug 2012 · with Kim night date16 Aug 2012 depth14.4 m time55 min water—
  2. 10 Aug 2012 with Kim date10 Aug 2012 depth27.7 m time53 min water—