On Wednesday, September 8th 2004, hurricane Ivan passed 60 miles north of Bonaire N.A., sending large swells on Bonaire's north/east shores. Linda Baker from the Carib Inn sent out a few e-mail to keep Bonaire regulars up-to-date. The Carib Inn lost most of the boards from their pier, the Divi lost their main pier once again, and Lions Dive had to sweep sand from their offices. Linda also reports that Vista Blue is fine, Something Special is more of a garbage site now than before (but the 4 frogfish are still there), Witches Hut has a lot of broken coral in the shallows and coral damage by sandcover, some coral heads were pushed near the entry ramp at the Windjammer reef (aka BOPEC) and there is minor sand damage to the corals, there doesn't seem to be much damage at S.W. Cornor - most of the damage there was from Lenny in 1999. Margate Bay, Hands Off and South Bay were reported as fine. Petri's Pillar has some sand damage. Linda was told by someone who dove Baby Beach that the corals are in really bad shape.

The Carib Inn has posted several photos of Ivan and it's aftermath on their website.

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