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Summer Coral Spawning Means Full Undersea Friskiness
If you’re into watching coral getting frisky, a resort in Bonaire should be on your short list for a summer diving trip. The Divi Flamingo Beach Resort has set up diving trips based on the prime periods for watching the coral do the nasty. The best chance of witnessing the coral spawning takes place four to eight nights following a full moon, and the resort is more than ready.
Scheduling these special dives for August, September, and October, the resort hopes that these will be the lucky days for both divers and the coral. Boulder Star, Brain, and Branching coral are just some of the varieties that will be getting busy under the waves. There’s Sea Rod coral too, but we’ll be mature and skip the obvious jokes about that species.
Packages for this trip start at $950 per person, and you’ll get seven nights at the resort, breakfast buffet daily, unlimited shore diving, and one free night dive during the spawning. If you’re more of a prude and would rather give the coral some privacy, the resort also allows you to create your own dive package. You’ll be able to avoid all the provocative behavior and just keep your eyes focused on the fish.
Related Stories: [Photo: Wikimedia]
·Divi Flamingo Beach Resort [Official Site]
·Explore A Modern-Day Shipwreck In Nevis [Jaunted]
·Diving coverage [Jaunted]
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Deals Travel: Rebates in "Paradise"
Everywhere we travel on our Internet adventures these days, we see articles about ways to save a buck on your next trip. Well, the island of Bonaire, in the Netherlands Antilles, has a new offer for both travelers and cheapskates. They're called Paradise Rebates.
Local businesses feel that you shouldn't have to pay luggage fees and surcharges, so they're offering rebates towards dining, accommodations, activities and vehicle rentals.
While the Tourism Corporation Bonaire didn't develop the discounts, the group is getting behind the effort, hoping to keep visitor numbers up while the economy is down. We're expecting to hear more from the island later this summer, too: As hurricane season ramps up, we wouldn't be surprised if the tourism board reminds us that the island sits outside of tropical storm range.
Related Stories:
· Paradise Rebates [Official Site]
· Tourism Bonaire [Official Site]
· Bonaire Travel coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: bradleyolin]
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Tropical Divisions
Travel Writer Alex Robertson Textor was in Bonaire and Curacao at the end of March. He'll be filing five dispatches for Jaunted this week about the relatively unknown (unless you're Andruw Jones) Caribbean islands. The fifth and final post, Last Dispatch from a Disintegrating Nation, starts below and continues here. Alex, when not traveling and writing, is a Senior Editor over at EuroCheapo.com. Take it away, Alex:
A dramatic title of my last entry on Bonaire and Curaçao, the southern two islands in the soon-to-disintegrate Netherlands Antilles fivesome, exaggerates the situation a touch. In fact, the Netherlands Antilles is both relatively well off and stable--in global terms--so "disintegration" shouldn't imply collapse or disaster. Nonetheless, the Netherlands Antilles, a nation within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, will soon fall apart.
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Curacao Chow
Travel Writer Alex Robertson Textor was in Bonaire and Curacao at the end of March. He'll be filing five dispatches for Jaunted this week about the relatively unknown (unless you're Andruw Jones) Caribbean islands. The fourth, In Search of Antillean Grub, starts below and continues here. Alex, when not traveling and writing, is a Senior Editor over at EuroCheapo.com. Take it away, Alex:
After a number of failed attempts to eat local food on Bonaire (the highly touted Gibi's Terrace has closed, and the location a local gave us for the house where Gibi lives and continues to cook up culinary masterpieces for takeout yielded no evidence of Gibi) we were hungering for a break from the formulaic Eurofusion of the tourist restaurants on Bonaire.
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Diving, Snorkeling, and Reading Trashy Novels in Klein Bonaire
Travel Writer Alex Robertson Textor was in Bonaire and Curacao at the end of March. He'll be filing five dispatches for Jaunted this week about the relatively unknown (unless you're Andruw Jones) Caribbean islands. The third, Pimp My Dive, starts below and continues here. Alex, when not traveling and writing, is a Senior Editor over at EuroCheapo.com. Take it away, Alex:
Klein Bonaire, with its amazing beaches and reefs, is a quick jaunt from Kralendijk by water-taxi. Of Bonaire's almost 90 diving sites, 23 are situated off Klein Bonaire. The concentration of snorkeling sites on Klein Bonaire is even more impressive: Eleven of Bonaire's 23 snorkel sites can be found off Klein Bonaire's shores.
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The Lowdown on Bonaire and Curacao
Travel Writer Alex Robertson Textor was in Bonaire and Curacao at the end of March. He'll be filing five dispatches for Jaunted this week about the relatively unknown (unless you're Andruw Jones) Caribbean islands. The first, Eight Reasons for Non-Divers to Visit Bonaire, starts below and continues here. Take it away, Alex:
Divers love Bonaire, and Bonaire loves divers. The island is one of the best places in the Caribbean to dive; Bonaire license plates are emblazoned with the slogan "Diver's Paradise". Dive-set visitors may look at you cross-eyed when you tell them that you're on Bonaire to do anything else. Here are eight things--other than diving--to mention to them the next time you're confronted with their small minds cradling ultra-conventional travel philosophies.
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