Bonaire

Bonaire
BREAKING NEWS:
The Scubadooby creature has been off course once before, and this year there are signs of proof that this might happen again... Not so much off course though, still along the golf stream the creature has drifted to the Bahamas!
The creature seem to be more and more dependent on water, moving down from the hills to the beach in Bonaire last year, the creature now actually will rest ON the water when surfacing from the deep. It has become rather sociable and will be spending time on a sailboat with very goood friends and UW-creatures whenever up to dry up. Since this implies less WIFI connectivity, time will show if the Scubadooby are able to transmit signals to the rest of the world. The creature is still closely attached to new friend Precious, and hopefylly this symbiosis will result in images of the UW-scenery for landlocked creatures to enjoy - stay tuned :)

The Bahamas is an archipelagic state consisting of more than 700 islands, cays and islets in the Atlantic and is located southeast of Florida, north of Cuba and Haiti and northwest of the Turks and Caicos.

Bonaire er den minste av ABC-øyene (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaceau) - sør i Karibien ca 80 km nord for Venezuela. Bortsett fra et fantastisk korallrev og dykking i verdensklasse, er det ikke noe særlig annet å se eller ta seg til... en relativ flat, tørr og liten øy med masse kaktus og kun noen få sandstrender, altså det perfekte sted å senke skuldrene og ta det piano et par uker.


lørdag 28. januar 2017

Klein Bonaire - and far south with stingray encounter

Bonaire is about the very best of shorediving, as there are about 80 + marked sites accessible from shore. That means its a perfect island for no scedule diving as all one need to do is to load diving gear onto truck, - and off you go to explore whatever site that comes into your mind.
To get to the divesites of its little "sister" Klein Bonaire though, a boat is a must. Yesterday we went with the Sea Donkey and were honored with the former lobster fishing boat maiden trip as a dive-boat. Two dives at Klein - at divesites Forest and our favourite Jerry's Reef, where we always have seen turtles. But no turtles yesterday... Anyway, nice sponges and coral formation with plenty of opportunity to practise wide-angle photography.

Today - we took advantage of the calm conditions and went far south to Red Slave and Sweet Dreams, usually with rather large waves breaking close to the shore making entry and exit difficult. No problem today however, and we got out to the reef where we had a nice encounter with a southern stingray. Very happy to see this ray as we don't always have been granted with  such a treat on our visits to Bonaire. They are more common to see down south, and luckily today it was our turn.
A few of the last two days photos, more wide-angle excercise :) AND: The stingray! A little in the distance, but still - a stingray :)
















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