Thousand Steps (16)

Thousand Steps is one of the most famous dive sites in all of Bonaire. Parking for this site is at the top of a cliff where you descend down 67 stairs with your gear on to access the beach. The long set of steps is where this site gets its name. A beautiful dive location.

Marine life at this site

You’ll see typical Caribbean life like nurse and reef sharks, possible eagle rays, turtles, stingrays, and lots of fish: snapper, angelfish, grunts, parrot fish, and grouper.

Based on open species observationswithin ~5 km — likely to see, not necessarily confirmed at the site itself.

Giant Anemone

Condylactis gigantea3 obs.

West Indian Sea Egg

Tripneustes ventricosus1 obs.

Atlantic Ghost Crab

Ocypode quadrata1 obs.

Krebsdyr

Neogonodactylus bredini1 obs.

Koral & anemone

Plexaura homomalla1 obs.

Atlantic Long-spined Sea Urchin

Diadema antillarum1 obs.

Purple Sea Fan

Gorgonia ventalina1 obs.

Svamp

Callyspongia plicifera1 obs.

Caribbean Reef Squid

Sepioteuthis sepioidea1 obs.

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Koral & anemone

Madracis auretenra2 obs.

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Hawksbill Sea Turtle

Eretmochelys imbricata2 obs.

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Green Sea Turtle

Chelonia mydas2 obs.

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Krebsdyr

Scyllarides aequinoctialis1 obs.

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Mustard Hill Coral

Porites astreoides1 obs.

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Krebsdyr

Periclimenes yucatanicus1 obs.

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Koral & anemone

Agaricia agaricites1 obs.

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Krebsdyr

Tozeuma carolinense1 obs.