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.


torsdag 26. januar 2017

Tough decisions

Life on Bonaire may seem easy, but every day there are tough decisions to me made. The major issues are: North or South, Macro or Wide. That is do we go north on the island to dive, or south to dive - and do I set up for Macro photography or Wide. Yesterday we went to what we call the far north and I brough my wide-angle for that. Up north just before Washington Slagbaii National Park there is a fish hut with a beach to enter the reef through a narrow channel. We call this divesite No Way Home, since it has prooved the channel going back in hasn't always been that easy to find..
We made two dives up there - one going south on the reef and one north. Beautiful reef both ways, and as "always" we were greeted and accompanied by our friend the green fat moray eel. We haven't always figured out whether his intentions for following us were "good" or "bad", but yesterday we got proof it was about food of course. As Ty speared a Lion fish (intended to be OUR dinner) the Moray attacked the spear and stole the whole fish! Assuming the speargun was lost, courageous Ty actually managed to grab it next to the moray eel's tail eating away on his lunch - and back in business hunting dinner... A few of yesterdays shots (video of moray + spear later).









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