Better visibility today,

… but nowhere near Bonaire’s always clear waters. A bit rough seas, but managed to do two dives with no problems. There’s not that much coral here, so missing in the colors we’re used to see. But when you start to look under rocks and into small caves there is life! We went a few meters into a cave today, and it was teeming with squirrelfish and trumpetfish. Nice also to look out from the cave and into the blue ocean. Quite a few moray eels – green, spotted and “normal”. Puffers and porcupines are plentiful – and today we also saw a beautiful triggerfish.  No sharks or manta’s yet though, - they might be there  but with max 10 meters visibility we should be lucky to see them.

Now – this island don’t have much wi-fi so lucky to be able to load up pictures… will try again J

 

Cabo Verde – cant see, where are you…? - or Bonaire – where are YOU?

When the wind and waves pick up at Sal – there are murky waters…  The Scubadoobys first encounter with Cape Verdian diving can be described with one word: soup..!  - and it wasn’t  even fish soup! The only time we have had poorer visibility was the Oslofjord, April and 4 Celcius water. Today warm though, 28 C – but we could barely see the wreck we were diving on. The Santo Antao wreck is a ship that sunk in 1967, and there are some coral formations on the body, but the main attraction today was the big puffers hovering around – we saw them as we bumped into them.  Apart from that – it wasn’t much of a dive. Practising a bit with the camera was useful though. And – we do realize now how spoiled we are (actually we knew that).  Crammed in a rib with 11 divers + crew was kind of a culture shock! If only Captain Menno and Me Jadato could come and pick us up!

Scubadooby is on the move!

There is rumors that the Scubadooby has woken up long before season and now is heading south/west. Due to this unusual interruption of hibernation the odd creature is slightly out of it’s normal route of migration, e in the waters off the coast of Africa!

The Cape Verde islands off the coast of Senegal have been luring for years now, and when divers abstinence kicked in terribly this autumn the Scubadooby had no chance. Sal Island as one of the Capverdian Island is a flat, sandy island with apparently pristine waters with abundant marine life – also the bigger creatures can be seen here! Also this year the Scubadooby is equipped with even more camera-stuff, - so be sure to check in regularly if you’d maybe like to see a manta, shark or even a whale-shark! We’ll do our very best to doc life below 0 m J