Carl's Hill is the wall of Klein Bonaire: right beneath the boat the reef drops away almost vertically. There is little shallow water to orient yourself on, but that is precisely why you are on the finest growth of the island within a minute.
Carl's Hill is an advanced boat dive on the north-west corner of Klein Bonaire: a narrow top at five metres and a near-vertical wall full of sponges to thirty-eight metres.
A narrow top at five metres gives way straight to a near-vertical wall full of purple and orange tube sponges, vase sponges and black coral. Lobster and moray sit in the overhangs; trumpetfish hang along the wall, and now and then a turtle. The wall runs to thirty-eight metres.
When the boat crosses and the sea is calm. Around midday the light falls most favourably on the wall; the sponge colours only truly come out with a torch.
The wall invites you to go too deep, while the best of it stands between ten and twenty-five metres. Little shallow water to off-gas on the return. Boat only, no facilities on the island.
Decisions on diveability, technique and health belong with STINAPA, a dive school or a doctor. This page only describes the conditions.
The site is named after a diving pioneer who mapped the north-west corner of Klein Bonaire. The wall belongs to the steeper west side of the island, where the bottom drops away faster than on the sheltered north side.
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