Small Wall is exactly what the name says: a short, near-vertical wall on a coast that otherwise consists of slopes. The wall is not long, but it is real, making it one of the few places on the main coast where you dive along a wall rather than over it.
Small Wall is an advanced shore dive on the west coast: a reef top at four to six metres and a short vertical wall from ten to thirty metres, rare on this coast.
A top at four to six metres runs to a wall that drops vertically from ten to about thirty metres. In the overhangs sit lobster, moray and glassy sweepers; tube sponges and black coral stand on the wall. Barracuda and trumpetfish hang above the edge.
Year round; around midday the light falls most favourably on the wall. Also a good night dive, with the resort as a fixed reference point.
The wall is short: after a few minutes you have seen it and swim on over the ordinary slope. The entry is on resort grounds, so parking is not a given for passers-by.
Decisions on diveability, technique and health belong with STINAPA, a dive school or a doctor. This page only describes the conditions.
True vertical walls are rare on Bonaire; the coast almost everywhere consists of a descending slope. Small Wall and Carl's Hill on Klein Bonaire are the best-known exceptions.
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