Carribean destination, Macro, convenient from NY area airport?

[tkaelin]

. Was in Curaçao last Feb - I thought it had gotten a bit run down

Curious as to where on the island you dove. When I have seen any negative comment like yours about the diving in CUR invariably the diving was not on the west end/Sabana Westpunt area.

 

[KeithG]

For me, the top caribbean macro locations have been Bonaire and Little Cayman. I've also found the shore dives on Grand Cayman to be good for macro, particularly at night.

Agreed on Bonaire (not been to LC).

Belize Half Moon and Long Caye have great macro as well.

 

[bvanant]

I guess it depends on what you want/mean by macro. For weird and unusual critters St Vincent should be on the list. If you want arrow crabs and such then Little Cayman is OK, but they are more into taking you to the wall and looking at larger things. Compared to the South Pacific (in my view) the macro in the caribbean is quite lacking. You can (or soon will be able to) get from NY to Manila non-stop. Anilao is real macro critter heaven, well worth the long flight.

Bill