Bonaire Viking Divers 2018: The octopus at Oil Slick Leap

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 11. februar 2011

The octopus at Oil Slick Leap

At "Oil Slick Leap" there is an octopus just below the ladder. Several sightings the last days made us eager to have a look ourselves, and for sure it was there as "promised". Octopus hunt at night, and this time it was resting squeezed in between rocks. All we could see was arms and body exactly matching the colours of the surrounding rocks. A master of disguise!

Just a few meters away was a huge barracuda, and as barracudas tend to do this one looked us deeply in the eyes, without moving as much as an inch! "Take right or left, above or under me please, - this is my spot!" A little behind with blogging now, - pictures from three more dives will eventually appear - a night dive at "Ol Blue" with lots of critters, and two boat dives at Klein yesterday - where a turtle said HI! Now, a day-trip to Washington Slagbai National Park - above water this time.