Clearbottom Mangrove Kayak & Snorkel Tour: Explore Bonaire's Lac Bay National Park Mangrove Reserve
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Experience the Clearbottom Mangrove Kayak & Snorkel Tour in Bonaire's Lac Bay National Park. Explore the mangrove reserve, paddle through tunnels, and snorkel among diverse marine life.
Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Lac Cai Beach - Your mangrove glass bottom kayak & snorkel tour begins at the lovely beach from Lac Cai. The Bonaire Mangrove reserve is located in Lac Bay National Park. Visitors can only enter the mangroves in the company of an experienced nature guide. Your stable, glass bottom sit-on-top kayak is equipped with a comfortable backrest seat, a waterproof bag for your personal belongings and, of course, paddles. Off you go, into the calm waters.
What's Included
  • dry bag
  • Bottled water
  • All snorkeling gear provided
  • Carbonated beverages included
What's Not Included
  • Except for cruise passengers & children under 13 , it’s mandatory to have a Stinapa nature tag.
  • Pick-up between Hamlet Oasis and Delfins possible if booked with pick up. Ask Whatsapp +5997828219
Additional Information

Our tour of the Bonaire Mangrove reserve, featuring a glass bottom kayak and snorkeling experience, kicks off from the beautiful beach of Lac Cai located within the Lac Bay National Park. This reserve only allows entry accompanied by a seasoned nature guide. The sturdy, sit-on-top kayak you’re about to use sports a glass bottom, comfortable seat with back support, a watertight bag for your personal items, and essential paddles. Your adventure into the calm aquatic expanse begins now.

Navigating through shallow waters and mangrove tunnels is a breeze with this ideally suited kayak.

The tour allows you to paddle through clear waters surrounded by four types of mangrove trees. As you pass by habitats housing various birds and fish spawning areas, you’ll get insight into the symbiotic relationship between the fauna and flora. Our snorkeling spot is teeming with oceanic creatures, making it a bucket-list contender for many visitors to Bonaire!

Location
Windows to the Sea Kayaking
Lac Cai Beach at the conch shells. Time meeting time 9:05 start 9:15 If you search for Lac Cai Beach in Google maps, you get the route. It's at THE END of Kaminda Lac.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Pauline_s
Apr 2, 2024
Mangrove Kayak & Snorkel - I have done Mangrove Kayak tours before in other ports - this Bonaire experience was the best. Guide picked us up at Port (+$20), drove us to site where we waited around for them to get organized (only negative comment). All of us had experience kayaking, so they didn't spend time on instruction. (No PFDs were offered) Best highlight was snorkeling thru mangrove. We chose not to snorkel, but instead, we walked/swam thru the mangrove tunnel and saw large clusters of fish feeding on the mangrove roots, also crabs & mollusks. While I didn't touch anything, I could have, it was all up close & in their natural environment. I felt safe at all times on this excursion. Really beautiful, and I felt it was a good value for the price of excursion. Would do it again.
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Ebgb123
Mar 28, 2024
Different facet of our ecosystem. - Knowledgeable guide and off-the-beaten path kayaking and snorkeling. All six of us loved it. Snorkeling amidst mangrove roots!
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Nathalie_l
Mar 25, 2024
Mangrove kayaking tour - My daughter and I did this tour and we had the most wonderful time. It was super relaxing and just and overal fun experience. The guide as well was very knowledgeable and helpful. In short definitely recommended doing this tour.
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Glenn_m
Mar 23, 2024
Excellent personable... - Excellent personable guide! Ston the mon! Thanks for sharing your experiences during the journey! See you next time.
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Vanessa_s
Mar 13, 2024
Kayak Beginners - We had a great time with Stan. He explained everything calmly in a funny way and we loved it. Can recommend it 10/10
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Ellen_m
Mar 12, 2024
Overall great experience - The snorkeling was amazing, our guide was fantastic and i loved the kayaking! Loved Bonaire and can’t wait to return!
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Reta_r
Mar 11, 2024
Wonderful trip thru the mangrove - The snorkeling was great. So much to see! We even saw a turtle (who should not have been in the mangrove).
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Thilok2015
Mar 11, 2024
Gladly again! - Great kayak tour into the mangroves. Good communication via WhatsApp. Pick-up on time! Always happy to do it again!
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Tina_m
Apr 12, 2024
Being surrounded by the sights & sounds if nature - the tranquility of kayaking among the mangroves, being surrounded by stunning colours & sounds of nature
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Isabelledemeyer1990
Apr 1, 2024
Very bad, incomprehensible guide! - Very bad, incomprehensible guide! No assistance with boarding from the start of the excursion. The excursion would be accessible to everyone, but on the day we went kayaking, the water was very rough at the entry point. As a result, our canoe quickly filled with water and we lost our underwater camera. The rest of our stuff also started to float and the guide simply said that this was normal, that the kayak could sometimes fill up and that it would not sink (what about our stuff?! Not a word was said about that). The guide only took action much too late, so we permanently lost our camera. We have a damage amount of more than € 650. Thank you! He then showed no understanding for the loss of the camera and even blamed us for holding up the group and for influencing the atmosphere during the excursion. After an argument with him and a phone call he made to his boss, we were suddenly allowed to come along. This was truly outrageous at its finest! We've never experienced this before... Never again for us! The sad thing was that the mangrove unfortunately didn't look like much (you didn't even see one bird) and the transparent bottom plate of the kayak was also completely unnecessary: you couldn't see anything because of the cloudy water. If I may give one piece of advice: view the mangrove (with the beautiful flamingo colonies!) from the road in Bonaire with binoculars and keep the money from this overpriced excursion in your pocket. Do you want to see a really beautiful mangrove including snorkeling? Then go to Mexico, to Sian Ka'an: we had a great experience here!
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