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 24. januar 2017

Loading the batteries...

Yes, we are here to load our batteries and retrieve some energy - without that nothing works. Neither do cameras or flashes...
The new equipment takes some preparations to get safely below water, and  - to our excuse a bit to get used to. So when arriving at Tori's reef down south yesterday - with fisheye lens and wideangle all set up to frame that so wished for eagle ray passing by - the flash had got too little attention for it's liking - no batteries...
Well, what to do? As uw photography is all about light, and getting good at it is about mastering available light (flashlight or the sun) this was a good as any opportunity to work with what was available, - the SUN! Luckily Tories reef has a long stretch of shallow water out to the reef and plenty of ambient light (sunlight)coming through on a sunny day. As we go deeper the color is absorbed by water, and we are more dependent of flashlight to bring them out again. So pictures from our two dives south (Tory's and Vista Blue) is about divers and blue water. And I had a go at split-level photos, though a lot of room for improvement there..
Back at the villa, it's impossible to stay out of the water so a night dive was inevitable. Now taking wideangle with the intention of getting those tarpons from yesterday. The three guys didn't disappoint, but so did the photographer. Thinking the camerabattery could take three dives in a row.. not so. 10 minutes into the dive - batteries gone dead.
So - lesson of the day - charged batteries make a huge difference... for both scubadoobies and equipment... At least our batteries are charged for every hour we spend down here :)





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