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Lac Bay (Lac Baai) is a sheltered, ~700-hectare shallow lagoon on the southeastern coast of Bonaire, a special municipality of the Netherlands in the southern Caribbean. The bay is protected from the Atlantic Ocean by a coral reef and fringing mangroves, resulting in mirror-flat, turquoise water rarely exceeding 1 metre in depth and a water temperature of around 28 °C. The easterly trade winds blow with over 90% reliability at 15–25 knots from December through August, making it a world-class freestyle and flatwater windsurfing destination; conditions are lighter but still rideable (10–20 knots) from September to November. On-site infrastructure is well developed: Jibe City is the largest windsurf centre (lessons, large equipment fleet, wingfoil), with its Hangout Beach Bar serving food and drinks daily; Bonaire Windsurf Place and Frans Paradise (founded by world-champion brothers Tonky and Taty Frans) are two further windsurf and wingfoil schools at Sorobon Beach on the bay. Windsurfing and wingfoiling are ideally suited to this spot across all levels; SUP is available through Jibe City. Kitesurfing is officially banned at Lac Bay by STINAPA (the Bonaire nature authority) because the water is too shallow for safe kite crashes, kite lines pose a threat to the protected mangrove and seagrass ecosystem, and mixing kiters with the dense windsurfing traffic creates serious collision risk. Wakeboarding and ocean surfing are not practised here due to the flat, enclosed lagoon character. The key local safety hazard is the barrier reef at the bay mouth: there is significant current running along and through the reef, and the extremely shallow, hard seagrass-and-sand bottom throughout the bay means that even moderate falls can result in impact with the seafloor.

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