KrysyGT

Just got back from our cruise 2 weeks ago on the Caribbean Princess!

We booked the water taxi to Klein Bonaire through the ship. As much as we wanted to get there on our own without expensive ship tours, it wasn't worth the hassel. We took the 7:30 taxi over and it was the best thing we did. As we were leaving droves of people were coming in on other ship tours, non ship tours and the other taxis were dropping people off. I highly recommend getting on the first taxi over if you can get up that early!

Ride over was uneventful, but beautiful. Booking through Princess you get tickets for rum punch. There are no facilities on the island other than a hut where you can rent out snorkel gear, buy drinks, as well as underwater cameras.

Snorkeling: This was some spectacular snorkeling. I would put it in my top three, with one and two being experiences I had in Belize and Curacao. When you arrive, put your belongings near the hut where eveything is rented. Then walk left down the beach as far as you can go. Enter into the water and carefully look around for an opening. There are a few, some are very small and one good wave could knock you into the coral. This was the one issue I had here, is people were not being careful and were using the coral to hold themselves up. This kills the little creatures inside! Once you get through it's like you dove into your own private aquarium. You can let the current take you along the deep side of the reef all the way back down to where you left your things. Once you get there it's sandy enough just to swim straight to shore. We spent over an hour snorkeling the reef and exploring the in's and out's. Below are some pics.

Overall: I thought it was a great bang for the buck especially for the limited time in Bonaire (7am to 1pm). It left us with just enough time to check out some of the street vendors and shops before heading back to the ship.

Arrival at Klein:

Watch out for these little guys, there are some big ones too!

Reef:

Last December on the Valor I had some nasty Apple struddel thing for dessert one night. I remember not being particularly fond of any of the deserts 2 1/2 years ago on the Destiny either. I think the only good desserts Carnival has are choc covered strawberries, soft serve, and the Lava cake!