Over time, Bonaire’s salt industry grew and became one of the island’s main exports. Today, the process remains, but the focus has shifted more toward sustainability and conservation, aligning ...

The salt pyramids of Bonaire,are just the most recent manifestation of the Caribbean’s centuries-old salt trade. Salt, was, historically, at the center of a complex web of trade relations, which ...

Each pyramid is about 50-feet high and contains approximately 10,000 metric tons of 99.6% pure salt, according to Bonaire Sea Salt, and that a private company draws saltwater directly from the ...

Caribbean coral reef off the coast of Bonaire. johnandersonphoto/Getty Images. One of the best-known sites on Bonaire is the Salt Pier, which is actively used by the island’s sea salt industry.

Weightless in salt water, breathing through ... and fall into the sea at almost any point along the inner edge of Bonaire’s crescent (the eastern side is unsheltered and too rough to swim).

The Caribbean island of Bonaire has been on a pretty interesting path energy-wise since 2004, when the island’s sole power plant burned to the ground. Given an opportunity to rebuild literally ...

Bonaire is a tiny island in the southern ... of the island is a flat landform with most of it covered by the sea. One can find salt flats as well as mangroves here. The rocky coral beaches cover ...