Meet the dreamteam 2017

So – that’s all for now, another fantastic dive holiday has come to an end. Unfortunately. 

As always, the dreamteam providing photos for the blogg consisted of Kelly and Ty (spotter and Lionfish-hunter), Elin and Stein – photographer and spotter/videographer. New divefriends Jort and Rosa contributed to memorable and fun days in Bonaire. 

Also new this year, Precious, the Nauticam camerahousing provided by Lars at Fotografit in Denmark and baptised by a pastor on our way to No Way Home, made sure memorable moments could be captured from the Nikon D7200. From now Elin and Precious will be an inseparable team on all dive-journeys, the beginning of a long relationship learning about the tricks and secrets of uw-photography. Step by step – a little more knowledgable now than when arriving Bonaire 2 weeks ago.

And last but certainly not the least - Esther and  Menno, the fabulous all perfect gooodivers and owners of diveshop Gooodive (for us the one and only diveshop on Bonaire) made sure that we all had perfect air and support for our dives,  as always. This year we got to do even more fun-dives together, and - at the same time Esther made sure we became a little better divers too through our adventure dives as part of our Advanced  open water certificate. 

Highly recommened too: The ”airmix” Esther and Menno fill the tanks with must be a ”special happy-mix”, as this was an incredibly successfull dive trip with plenty of joyful and memorable moments. Logging 27 dives in two weeks can make you a little ”high” – if not deep… 

In our dive-villa Villa Ganshi with our very own house reef, Something Special, we made sure every day to follow the instructions on the sign on beach – Be Happy J 

Since getting the most out of our divetime was most important, the blogging suffered again... – so included a few pics from our last dives. The Scubadooby will no go into hibernation for a while, untill next time - hopefully not too long - this creature wakes up for more nutrition.

Salt pier - pillars and people, and turtles

The salt pier in Bonaire is a dive that can be done with great reward both day and night, wide-angle and macro. And when the news of three turtles hanging around in the shallows feeding reached us, we just had to do it all. The pier can only be dived when there's no ship in, so we had to wait for a few days for this luxury. But then, - the ship was gone and we could go in. Three very friendly turtles gaves us a real treat, eating in the shallows totally ignoring our presence. And then after about 70 minutes in the water - up to a magnificent sunset.

A deep, a drift and a night - three fantastic dives in one day

As part of our advanced diving certification (with Gooodive, Bonarie)  we had three fantastic dives in one day - one of pictures posted from the wreck Hilma Hooker, one drifting from La Danias Leap to Karpata saying hi to a couple of turles and a huge Rainbow Parrotfish on the way, and one night dive at Salt Pier which goes into history as one of the most memorable dives ever. Three octpus and two rays - a southern stingray up close and an eagle ray up even closer as it turned around and bumped into me as I was taking its picture! Most likely will never ever get closer to a ray than this, spots on picture below taken in the moment it bumped into my knee! Woaw! And Salt Pier at night is a fantastic macrodive - with orange anemones that open only during night and basket stars reaching out for prey. The colours covering the pillars are simply breathtaking :)