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.


tirsdag 8. februar 2011

A lazy day in the hammock...

- preparing for a couple of boat dives in the afternoon/night. Yesterday we had two great dives, "Angel City" and "Tori's Reef".
"Angel City" is our favourite spot on this island and never disappoints. Plenty of fish and beatiful coral formations, a lively underwater community - this time we had the pleasure of meeting a big lobster taking a walk, a tarpon checking us out and lots and lots of beautiful coral. What was not so pleasant was to discover that a few dangerous immigrants had settled on the reef. The lion fish is more and more common to see, - this is not a native to the area but rather being introduced to the Caribbean by thoughtless people. Having no predators in the area its multiplying fiercly and on this one dive we saw 4 specimens! Being a predator the lionfish prey on other fish in the area, and may have a detrimental effect on the reefsystem.They're now trying to control this by spearfishing, but it will be a hard battle.. the lionfish seems to instinctive know when someone has bad intentions for it... The reef is such a delicate system, and one foreign species like this will alter the balance.

"Tori's reef" was abundant with life in all shapes and colours, a truly beautiful dive! Looking out for rays as they are known to pass by here, we didn't see them this time either... next time hopefully they will show up...The internetspeed is quite good right now, so there will be quite a few pictures today, and maybe a video later....
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