What you can see on the Sorobon cam
The camera looks from a beach resort along the sand of Sorobon and out across the bay. Pale sand curves along the water, a low rock breakwater runs out into the shallows, and the bay spreads in shades of turquoise and green to the line of the reef, where the surf breaks white. In the afternoons, the sails of the windsurfers dot the water.
Sorobon Beach and Lac Bay
From a beach resort at Sorobon, this camera looks along the sand and out across Lac Bay. A pale beach curves along the water, a short breakwater juts into the shallows, and the lagoon stretches in bands of turquoise and green towards the reef, where the white line of the surf marks the open sea.
When the wind picks up, the sails of the windsurfers fill the bay. It is one of the SHOWME Caribbean cameras on YouTube.
Lac Bay
Lac Bay covers a large shallow lagoon on the south-east coast, edged by mangroves and seagrass beds where sea turtles feed, and it is protected as a wetland of international importance. The reef at its mouth keeps the waves out while letting the wind in, which is why the windsurf schools here teach children and champions side by side.
When to watch Sorobon
The wind is usually strongest from late winter to midsummer and lightest in the autumn. Mornings are calmer; by midday the wind picks up and the sails come out.
Nearby
The mangroves at the north end of the bay can be explored by kayak, and Kralendijk, the capital, is about 15 minutes away by car. Bonaire's flamingos feed in the salt pans of the south, near the old slave huts, the pink salt pans and the white salt piles of the salt works.
Getting there
The windsurf centres rent boards and give lessons. Flamingo International Airport is near Kralendijk.
