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Article: Little Dutch island called 'Fish Capital of Caribbean'; Fishy: Bonaire offers a photogenic haven
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- February 24, 2002
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BONAIRE, Netherlands Antilles - Over the past two decades, my wife
and I have been scuba diving all over the planet. We've explored the
near-freezing waters of Lake Baikal in Siberia and the warm waters of
the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
We've dived with sea lions in Galapagos and with sharks in the
Bahamas. We've even dived down to an underwater hotel, the Jules
Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, Fla., and to an active underwater
volcano in Indonesia.
One of our favorite places to dive is Bonaire, a small desertlike
island in the Netherlands Antilles, 24 miles long and 3-7 miles wide.
It is one of the ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao), 30 miles
from Curacao and 50 miles north of ...