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.


fredag 18. februar 2011

Dolphin dive!

Started early early this morning with a dolphin dive here in Curacao. Ocean Encounters in cooperation with the Seaaquarium here on the island do twice a week a dive with these mammals where divers can observe their behaviour close up. A unique experience seeing these underwater mammals agility and manouvreability! Looking into their eyes you see intellegence. Today there was not only one dolphin on the reef, but two, as one younger female was in heat..... A male insisted to come along... These dolphin are free to swim where they want, but choose to stay in the protected Dolphinarium on Curacao where they get trained and fed. They can however leave at any time and swim free. We took a boat ride to a reef where we were met by these two dolphins and their trainer. Impressive to see how they acted together, clarely today we were not interesting enough, but to us their natural behaviour was more interesting to see. A mating surely was not far away..... Since we only got to see them for about 10 minutes, the dive was refunded.... However, - for us 10 minutes with dolphins was more than we could hope for in a wild setting!





Stein and the dolphins
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1 kommentar:

  1. Skaubo21. februar 2011 kl. 03:01

    Fantastisk! Vel tilbake fra ferie må jeg jobbe meg gjennom innleggene her :)

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