Bonaire July 2014

Published on Jul 15, 2014
Here are a few clips from our dives so far. Alex is photographing an overturned sculpture that depicts Bonairean culture. An arrow crab gets crabby with a little fish. Lots of squid, a sand dollar, a pair of banded butterfly fish, a passing turtle and a small school under the Salt Pier. Until later!

Published on Jul 19, 2014
The cast of characters are as follows - spotted moray, Alex shooting a tarpon, a hogfish being shadowed by a trumpet fish while munching on a starfish - that's a mouthful! Horse eyed jacks - they are mean looking. Rock beauty angle fish, sharptail eel head sticking out one hole, tail another. Puffer fish being cleaned by gobies, common purple anemone and a very tiny red seahorse. Great barracuda with Alex in the background. Trumpet fish also with cleaning goby and a burrfish with iridescent eyes. A french angle fish and a honeycomb cowfish sharing a sponge lunch. Spot fin butterfly fish, note the squid in the background.

Published on Jul 23, 2014
Feature creatures include a fast Spotted Moray eel, a group of social feather dusters, a school of tangs and a very camouflaged crab. Next is a ride above "The Cliff" dive site and another clip of the little red sea horse, this time I put my finger on the sand so you you can see just how big (or little) this guy is. Since field of view is greatly reduced with masks on, we use these little rear view mirrors to keep track of each other easily. It really works! Meet "Tweetie" the frog fish, close up of a barracuda's pearly whites and a Porgy just hanging out. We finish up with a photogenic coral head, slow motion withdrawal of a feather duster and a cute little jaw fish.

Published on Jul 24, 2014
We start out with some clips of the wreck Hilma Hooker - OK you can imagine the jokes.... next is a view of a swimming flounder that you don't normally see - the underside! Getting a smile from a trumpet fish and a couple of banded butterfly fish munching on a moon jelly fish. Another smile from a sand diver and a couple of cute garden eels with a close up. Some Creole Wrasse getting a "teeth cleaning" and another burr fish with terrific iridescent eyes. Next shot is just a glide over a reef - nothing special - just relaxing, finally a puffer fish and our final exit, that's our truck waiting for us! One last dive in the morning - any sharks or rays will get their own post!