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 13. februar 2018

A visit to caves and "Dinghy cay"

It is easy to plan a trip on the map – however, on a trip like this what really decides your itinerary is weather… On our way down  to Georgetown we decided to turn around for two reasons:
1. Exiting the calmer Bank side to the rougher Sound side of the Exumas which we would have to to get to Georgetown is really not a good idea in high winds/waves like we have at the moment. Especially going against the winds would give us a bumpy 2 day sail…
2. Phoning the dive-company  - the weather is actually to rough for diving this week… And diving was our main reason for heading towards "sivilization"...

So, I guess our dive-blog will be a snorkeling blog this time… But  then the snorkelig the Exumas is actually very good. And we get to practice "split level-photography" - which is half under/half over surface.
Down on the southeast side of Ruddercut we got to explore a couple of caves – a pretty good reef , and we saw even more rays, one with it’s tail bitten off by probably a shark. This area also have a full size concert piano with a mermaid leaning onto it places on a shallow sandbank…! This put her by illusionist David Copperfield why owns an island here, Musha Cay, which you can rent for only 39 000 dollar – per night, minimum four nights….We kind of decides just to pass slowly by...

We’re experiencing and learning every day here – for the last couple of nights it has been rather bumpy nights anchoring here – being tossed from side to side, anchor dragging and one night we ”slept” with the keel touching the ground for a couple of hours on low tide… Waking up to our dinghy gone the next morning! Searching the area we found it washed ashore on a small island, both sides of this island open ocean… next to it a red plastic bucket conveniently  placed there by ”someone” so Stein could empty the water out and wrestle it back to us. Now last night in very sheltered calm Cave Cay marina repairing the dinghy (had a few holes) and waiting out winds before heading back to Blackpoint – exploring/snorkeling Great Guana Cay on our way.



















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