Saturday 1/29: Dawn Dive
This was the dive I was most looking forward to. Everyone had told me how fantastic dawn dives were: starting in the dark and watching the reef come to life. We went the other way “left” from buddy dive or south. We saw a couple of the mucous sacs that the parrot fish swim in. The tarpon were also still with us. We had a very laid back, easy going turtle that swam with us for at least 10 minutes. It gradually got lighter, then all of a sudden, the fish came out! We also saw schools of fish that don't normally school together: parrot fish.
When we had gone 40mins, it felt like we were really going with the current so I signalled Jim to turn around, but surprisingly, the current back wasn't bad at all. When we got back to the rope up to Buddy Dive, we decided to go beyond it to the north for a little while. In one five foot area, we saw two scorpion fish, one large moray, and one snake eel. It was pretty awesome, and the best way to wrap up our dive vacation possible. We stayed down for an hour and a half!
When we had gone 40mins, it felt like we were really going with the current so I signalled Jim to turn around, but surprisingly, the current back wasn't bad at all. When we got back to the rope up to Buddy Dive, we decided to go beyond it to the north for a little while. In one five foot area, we saw two scorpion fish, one large moray, and one snake eel. It was pretty awesome, and the best way to wrap up our dive vacation possible. We stayed down for an hour and a half!
After breakfast Ron and Tina, and Scott and Tammy went out for another dive, and we decided to do some sightseeing since we were through diving. We went into Kralendeijk and looked around, did some shopping.
We had a beer at a bar at the end of the town pier. That was really nice.
Then we went to a pond that is near the airport so I could photograph some flamingoes. There's lots of flamingoes in Bonaire. Unfortunately, they were too far away to get a really good picture of them.
We had a beer at a bar at the end of the town pier. That was really nice.
Then we went to a pond that is near the airport so I could photograph some flamingoes. There's lots of flamingoes in Bonaire. Unfortunately, they were too far away to get a really good picture of them.
For our final dinner, we went to a new restaurant no one had been to called La Barca. It was Italian and very good. The service was ssssllloowwww though. Fortunately we weren't in a hurry. When we first sat down, it looked like one of the sailboats moored in the harbor was on fire! But the fire eventually settled down; I guess the guy was having a major barbeque or something. After dinner, we all said our goodbyes, Randy and Shawn come home with us also.
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