Monday 1/24: Torie's Reef and White Slave
They have a nice breakfast spread here. So nice to sit and watch the water and the divers going in/out of the water. The plan was to go south today. The first site was Torie's Reef, which they chose for the nice entry. We got there and started setting up, but Jim's reg stated free flowing and he couldn't get it to stop. Fortunately, Ron and Scott have been there so many times they could give us directions to the best guy to take it to. So we went back into Kralendeijk, and got his reg fixed. Didn't take the guy long at all, and he didn't even charge us anything! We got back to Torie's Reef before anyone else had surfaced so we decided to do a quick dive too. So many fish!!! Large sandy area at the start, but we didn't see any rays.
The second site was further south, White Slave, named after the white slave huts located there. Terrible, small, cramped things. I can't imagine living in them.
This site had a much trickier entry. The “beach” was layers of loose coral pieces and there was a steep slope down to the water. You basically slid sideways down to the water. The dive was pretty nice. There was current so we started out against it. Scott and Tammy set a fast pace, and I was huffing trying to keep up, so I just slowed down. Also a wide sand patch near shore.
This site had a much trickier entry. The “beach” was layers of loose coral pieces and there was a steep slope down to the water. You basically slid sideways down to the water. The dive was pretty nice. There was current so we started out against it. Scott and Tammy set a fast pace, and I was huffing trying to keep up, so I just slowed down. Also a wide sand patch near shore.
Our lunch consisted of PB&;J's and trail mix washed down with Amstel Brights after each dive :) Jim and I had a bit of an adventure buying bread yesterday afternoon when we went grocery shopping. Since it was Sunday, many stores were closed. We found a grocery store that was open, but they only had 1 loaf of bread, and it looked rock hard, but we figured we needed to buy it. On the way back, we saw a mini mart and went in there. Their bread selection wasn't much better, but we picked up a bag of hoagie rolls. When we got back to Buddy Dive, I discovered that I actually bought apricot jam instead of strawberry. Jim liked it, but between the crappy bread and the apricot jam, I wasn't too fond of our sandwiches. I ate more trail mix instead :)
For dinner, we went to one of their favorite restaurants in Bonaire, Cactus Blue. Unfortunately, the owners had divorced since they last went down there, and the quality had gone down. I had an ahi tuna that I said I wanted medium. It wasn't at all what I was expecting: it was basically sushi. And it came out pretty raw too, so I sent it back to be cooked more. It was more edible the second time, but still pretty bad. Jim wasn't overly fond of his fish either. Too bad. Apparentely this place was pretty special in the past.
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