Bonaire live webcam
Sorobon Beach on Lac Bay, the windsurfing beach of Bonaire, live.
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Photos: Sorobon: Ulises Icardi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The B of the ABC islands
Bonaire is the easternmost of the ABC islands, off the coast of Venezuela, and the quietest of the three. Since 2010 it has been a special municipality of the Netherlands itself, and its small capital, Kralendijk, faces the islet of Klein Bonaire across a strip of sea that is part of one of the oldest marine parks in the Caribbean. The reefs start a few metres from the shore, which has made Bonaire a byword for shore diving.
Wind and flamingos
The island is dry, flat in the south and hilly in the north, and the trade wind blows across it almost without pause. On the windward side, Lac Bay is a shallow bay closed off by a reef, with mangroves and seagrass where turtles feed, and its flat, waist-deep water is one of the best places in the world to learn to windsurf. In the salt pans of the south, flocks of pink flamingos feed and breed.
When to watch Bonaire
Bonaire's clock is the same as Curaçao's, four hours behind UTC. It lies south of the usual hurricane tracks, rain is scarce and mostly falls from October to January, and the breeze tends to peak from late winter to midsummer.