No Name Beach (Klein Bonaire)

No Name Beach is a breathtakingly beautiful beach located on the north side of Klein Bonaire. To the west of No Name Beach is dive spot Sampler and to the east is dive site Ebo's Reef. Klein Bonaire is about eight hundred meters away from Bonaire.

What does No Name Beach look like?

No Name Beach is the most beautiful sandy beach on Bonaire; it has the look of a real Bounty beach! The waves of the azure-colored Caribbean Sea gently wash up on the snow-white No Name Beach. The powdery sand feels wonderful and invites you to go for a walk barefoot or to sunbathe. Green trees and plants grow on the edge of the beach. The green scrub, the snow-white sandy beach and the blue ocean water are stunningly beautiful.

No Name Beach on Klein Bonaire is heavenly beautiful.

Is No Name Beach private or public?

No Name Beach is a public beach.

If you intend to recreate in the water that engulfs Bonaire, you must purchase a permit. The entire Bonaire Caribbean Sea falls under the Bonaire National Marine Park (BNMP). If you want to go diving, purchase a dive tag. Non divers buy a so-called nature tag.

What can you do at No Name Beach?

• sunbathe
• have a picnic
• barbecue
• to walk
• swimming
• snorkeling
• diving

If you like you can walk around Klein Bonaire. You follow the rugged coastline and walk over different surfaces (white sand, petrified coral rubble, pebbles and rocks) and pass various landscapes (coves, groves, coral rubble walls and small salt lakes). The length of the route is more than ten kilometers, it takes about four hours.

It is possible to walk around Klein Bonaire. Make sure you have enough water with you.

Klein Bonaire is a paradise for snorkeling and diving. Coral reef is located along the entire coast of the oval-shaped island. It is a coral reef that starts right at the shoreline and extends to a depth of seventy meters and more.

The reef is made up of two zones. The first zone consists of a reef terrace that gradually slopes down to a depth of between 10 and 12 meters. The outer edges of the reef terrace are at a distance from the coast which is between one hundred and one hundred and fifty meters. The first zone mainly grows elkhorn coral, stag horn coral and other soft corals. On the east coast of Klein Bonaire, the reef terrace is very narrow or not even present. In these places, the ocean floor descends directly to depths of up to one hundred and eighty meters.

The second zone of the Klein Bonaire reef starts with the so-called 'drop-off'. Here the ocean floor slopes down at an angle of between twenty and fifty degrees. This zone descends to a depth of between twenty-five and fifty-five meters. In the second zone mainly brain coral, star coral and other hard coral species grow. At the end of this steep slope, the ocean floor flattens out.

In the past, local coral collapses have occurred along the northeast coast of Klein Bonaire. At the top of the slope, unstable coral formations broke off and caused devastating coral avalanches. In those places, the reef is now interrupted with channels of sediment. At the southwest point of Klein Bonaire there are also characteristic fields with black coral; this section is called Forest.

Accessibility

No Name Beach can be reached by various water taxis and other boats. Every day you can make the crossing to No Name Beach at different times.

No Name Beach can be reached with a water taxi.

Facilities

Two thatched roofs with benches, three information boards, various waste containers and barbecue areas.

Accommodations

None

Watch an overview of the beaches on Bonaire.