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Final dives

Neat silhouette shot of Robert & we finally found another seahorse. I have plenty more pics to upload this week…

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Not ready to leave

4 more dives on friday…one tomorrow early am, then we’re renting cars to explore the island

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Turtle chows down

Thursday’s afternoon dive was the best yet. We saw 2 Hawksbill turtles, I followed one to surface then the baby returned to the bottom, started chowing down on a piece of coral. then a queen anglefish starting coming in for scraps. We all sat and watched them work on it for a while, got a neat video i’ll get up later of my dad hand feeding a chunk of coral to the turtle.

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Eels, lobsters, turtles…

great morning dives. Here are 2 of the 15 year olds on the trip…playing air guitar and drums.

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Wednesday = 4 hrs underwater

2 morning dives, afternoon, plus a 9pm night dive…needless to say i slept very well after a few cold beers. Saw several tarpon, spanish lobsters, a big crab & a really neat cuttlefish ( or squid, i’m not sure).

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Tuesday am dives

Great dives this morning off the small, protected island of Klein Bonaire. Here are some of the highlights…finally getting the hang of my new Ikelite strobe rig. Hope to try the double setup tomorrow.

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Cudas, Bait & a Seahorse!

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Great start to the trip…incredible boat dives this am where we saw a seahorse. Shore dives in front of hotel on Sunday were really neat. Nice Barracuda was hanging out in the middle of a huge bait ball. Had fun swimming thru the wall of fish and snapped a few photos…this one is low light but you can see the impact of the the scene.

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Headin’ South!

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I’m traveling to the Island of Bonaire this Saturday for 8 days. We will be diving and I hope to get in some bonefishing on the flats. We’re staying at the Divi Flamingo Dive Resort right near the capital city of Kralendijk. Bonaire is located just north of Venezuela and is part of the Netherlands Antilles

For more information about the island of Bonaire, visit www.infobonaire.com

I hope to post a series of blogs on my daily adventures…depends on web access.

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Nassau Pics

Hawksbill Turtle - Nassau, Bahamas

Awesome trip to Nassau, Bahamas last weekend! Stayed at our small hotel (Land Shark Divers) & made 8 incredible dives with Stuart Cove’s Dive Bahamas. Check out the pics…getting the hang of my Olympus SP-350. Macro shots came out well using the internal flash w/ diffuser. The wide angle shots suffered…really need to get the external strobe setup.

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