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.


søndag 22. januar 2017

Out of hibernation and arrived at destination

So - finally the Scubadooby reached it's destination after a long migration and two years of hibernation. This year, after having dried up for too long, the route ended up seafront in a villa with it's own reef in front. Two dives from our very own front porch (at least ours for the next weeks), one mid-day and one at night. Neither did disappoint - the reef Something Special was teeming with life both day and night.
As we have moved a step-up camerawise (info to follow), the first dive was made without a camera in the housing... just to make sure new housing was waterproof ... An ordeal to decide to enter the water without being able to frame whatever that could happen to pass by... But - holding housing, pushing buttons (yes - this will take some practice...) and observing fish behaviour actually was a good excercise. Lots of friendly Queen angels was a nice treat during the day. Back on the surface, abstinence kicked in and just after sunset the new camera/housing was ready for its novice dive and first proper test. Goal: to manoever this "Jack Costau thing", and shooting macro in the dark with focus on adjusting lighting/flash.
Here's the result - a nice Christmas tree worm, a few fish portraits, anemone, feeding coral and a tiny crab :) And half of the dive accompanied by our three large house tarpons - hunting food with the help of our divelights.








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