Playa Bengé is a pebble bay in the north of the park, with a reef in better condition than almost anything along the inhabited coast. Visitation is low because the drive is long and the entry goes over rolling pebbles.
Playa Bengé is an advanced shore dive in Washington Slagbaai: a pebble entry, a reef top at four to six metres and a slope to thirty metres, little visited.
A reef top at four to six metres with dense finger coral and fan coral, giving way to a slope to thirty metres. Schools of grunts and parrotfish on the top, jacks along the edge. Turtles are regular in the bay.
In flat water, early in the morning. In onshore swell the pebbles roll and the exit is the problem.
Pebbles that roll from under you at entry and exit. A long unpaved drive, park entry, gate closed at five. No shade, no water, no toilet.
Decisions on diveability, technique and health belong with STINAPA, a dive school or a doctor. This page only describes the conditions.
The bay belongs to the first nature park of the Netherlands Antilles, established in 1969 on the grounds of two former plantations. The low visitor numbers are the main reason the reef here has stayed intact.
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