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Article: BONAIRE'S BOUNTY UNDERSEA WORLD OF ENCHANTMENT GRACES LAID-BACK CARIBBEAN ISLE.(Travel)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- April 29, 2007
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Byline: ERIC NOLAND
Travel Editor
BONAIRE, Netherlands Antilles - When the promoters of Caribbean tourism are scouting sites for their next travel poster, they sail right on past Bonaire.
The little speck in the Netherlands Antilles, just off the coast of Venezuela, cannot deliver the Caribbean's iconic images: vast beaches of powdered-sugar sand, lavish resorts with infinity pools, lush rain forests, pulsating nightclubs.
The island is a sparsely populated crescent of 112 square miles, and is nondescript at first glance. Until you look beneath the surface.
Of the water.
Ringing the island is an undersea world of ...