Bonaire part 1
Innamorata
Steve & Carol
Sat 28 Jul 2018 18:06
Sorry for the long silence on the blog – all is well we just have been busy
enjoying ourselves .
Sanne kindly gave us some lovely pictures of us sailing:
These are on route to Los Roques.
On route to Bonaire
We had some friends who were already here in Bonaire – Sara and Joan on
Tangeroa were 4 moorings away, Anne and Bob on Baloo were on the mooring next to
them and Sanne and Rik ended up on a mooring nearer the town, we also
recognised a few of the other 40 odd boats on moorings here and have made a lot
of new friends since arriving.
View of our neighbours from our mooring.
After paying for the mooring and checking in we spent the first few days
finding our way around the town, checking out the supermarkets, restocking our
cupboards, socialising, snorkelling and doing our first Bonaire dive.
So far we have done 12 dives since we got here – probably not as many as we
thought we would do but washing our kit takes a lot of fresh water and the dive
compressor is a little antisocial for our neighbours! Steve also had a bit of a
mishap with his BCD - I think it was my fault as it got caught when I was
lowering it into the water! We were able to get it repaired but it took a few
weeks so in the meanwhile we bought new ones!
Here are some of the marine life we have encountered mainly diving off the
back of the boat.
Everyone loves an encounter with a turtle! Steve’s picture of me taking
picture of this chap.
One of my favourites Honeycomb cowfish – love the horns and colour changes
these fish do.
Smooth
trunkfish
Trumpet
fish
Spotted Drum fish
Blue
Tang
Friendly French angle fish waving hello, they have grumpy faces though!
Some amazingly colourful
coral
and christmas tree worms
Baloon fish
Lobster
Pederson cleaner shrimp
Banded coral
shrimp
Giant Anemone
Lion fish – not native to the Caribbean they are seen as an invasive
carnivore with no natural predators although it is thought that grouper have
acquired a taste for them.
Some friends we have dived with – Sara &
Joan Rik
and of course pictures of us
More on our land and marine adventures in the next posting.
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