Bonaire

  • IMGP0025 Arrived at the Buddy Dive Resort in Bonaire at 3:00; at 4:00, Brie's in a bikini playing with the Iquanas
  • IMGP0026 While Jess is sunning
  • IMGP0027 This Iguana has a name
  • IMGP0031 Will and Willing take advantage of the 16 year drinking age in Bonaire. Willing still gets carded
  • IMGP0035 Feeding the lizards
  • IMGP0038 Buddy Dive Resort
  • IMGP0039 Buddy Dive Resort
  • IMGP0041 Afternoon drinks!
  • IMGP0062 Monday night dip off the Buddy Dive Dock... while taking the picture, yelling "ready... one... two... three... SHARRRKKKKK!"
  • IMGP0044 Night dip
  • IMGP0052 Night Dip
  • IMGP0053 Night Cannonball
  • day 1 007 Next morning... from the breakfast area
  • day 1 010 Throwing bread to the fishes
  • day 1 011 The dock
  • day 1 019 At breakfast
  • day 1 022 Buddy Dive Resort : day 1
  • day 1 023 Buddy Dive Resort
  • day 1 025 A Manta Ray swimming by
  • day 1 027 A Manta Ray swimming by
  • day 1 029 A Manta Ray swimming by
  • day 1 050 Buddy Dive Resort
  • day 1 cont 014 a I wasn't feeling 100% on Sunday, so I drove to a high point overlooking the west coast of Bonaire (where buddy dive is located) called "Seru Largu"
  • day 1 cont 008 a This is the structer at Seru Largu ... not sure of the significance.
  • day 1 cont 003 The view from Seru Largu
  • day 1 cont 012 The view from Seru Largu
  • IMGP0069 After checking out my scuba gear, snorkled by the dock
  • IMGP0071 Parrot FIsh
  • IMGP0078 Blue Tang
  • IMGP0082 Blue Tang
  • day 1 040 a The Buddy Dive dock
  • day2 002 Monday... kids are doing pool work
  • day2 006 Pool work
  • day2 008 And some book work
  • day2 009 View from our three room apartment at Buddy Dive
  • day2 017 Kids surprise me with a birthday present
  • day 1 cont 021 a Buddy Dive Resort
  • day2 019 and dessert complete with sparklers!
  • day2 022 Will drinking something fruity
  • day2 023 WIll and Willing
  • day2 025 All of us relaxing at the end of the day at the Pool Bar... I don't think we missed a single happy hour the entire week
  • day2 026 Sunset from the Pool Bar
  • PICT0086c Dive on Tuesday with the new camera... this is called "Flamingo Tounge"
  • PICT0002c Coral
  • PICT0003c Coral
  • PICT0004c Coral
  • PICT0008c Barracuda!
  • PICT0009c Sea Anenome
  • PICT0011c Christmas Tree Worm
  • PICT0013c Coral
  • PICT0028c The reefs were fantastic; unfortunately, the colors don't come out and the flash can't light up the entire reef
  • PICT0036c Coral
  • PICT0040c DIve Master
  • PICT0044c Coral
  • PICT0078c Trumpet Fish
  • PICT0003 Kids are doing their open water work on Tuesday
  • IMGP0118 Tuesday night, we went night snorkeling with lights... these large Tarpons would come and eat any smaller fish we'd light up. Then a Manta ray came by... six feet wingspan looming out of the dark
  • PICT0010 Coral
  • PICT0018 Coral
  • PICT0024 Me!
  • PICT0029 Squirrel Fish
  • PICT0047 The reef
  • PICT0055 Loved these bright purple fish... I think they are called fairy baskets
  • PICT0061 Coral and divers
  • PICT0062 Black Durgon
  • PICT0094 Blunt Slipper Lobster (the bug like think in the lower left)
  • PICT0105 Fish
  • PICT0111 Yellow Damselfish... this would also come in all black and charge anyting in sight
  • PICT0112 Hanging under the boat
  • PICT0001 (2) Coral
  • PICT0005 (2) Coral
  • PICT0007 (2) Barracuda!
  • PICT0029 (2) Bonaire Crynitoid
  • PICT0045 (2) small Cleaner shrimp
  • PICT0060 (2) Coral
  • PICT0064 (2) Moray!
  • PICT0071 (2) Spiney Lobster
  • PICT0074 (2) Sea Anenome
  • PICT0007 Parrot Fish
  • day3 002 Tuesday night... sunset from "It Rains Fishes"
  • day3 004 Dinner at "It Rains Fishes"
  • day3 005 Passing the hat
  • day3 008 Passing the hat
  • day3 009 Passing the Hat
  • day3 010 Drinks!
  • day3 011 It Rains Fishes
  • PICT0011 Kid's final Ceritifcation Dive Wednesday Morning. Brie and Jess are about to jump in off the dock...
  • PICT0012 Splashdown for Brie
  • PICT0016 Swimming out to do skill checks
  • PICT0032 Skill checks
  • PICT0050 Bouyancy check
  • PICT0054 V for victory!
  • PICT0066 French Grunt
  • PICT0072 WIll... it was THIS BIG
  • PICT0073 Brie has a mask malfunction and has to swap with the instructor underwater
  • PICT0078 Off to the reef
  • PICT0081 Video
  • PICT0087 Checking out the reef
  • PICT0094a Artys Fartsy shot
  • PICT0100 Brie
  • Project1 Done and on the way back in
  • PICT0102 Video
  • PICT0009e Wednesday afternoon, kids are ceritifed... Brie and Jess go sunning, Will and Willing do the afternoon boat dive with me
  • PICT0010e Coral
  • PICT0021e Cleaner shrimp
  • PICT0022e Willing
  • PICT0024e Black Durgons
  • PICT0028e Will
  • PICT0036e Will and Willing
  • PICT0038e Moray!
  • PICT0039e More moray
  • PICT0040e Banded Butterfly Fish
  • PICT0046e Reef
  • PICT0058e Me!
  • PICT0059e WIll and WIlling...
  • PICT0060e Willing and Able!
  • PICT0063e Box fish
  • PICT0076e Scrawled Filefish
  • PICT0085e Coral
  • PICT0090e Young Parrotfish (they change color to green and blue when the get older)
  • PICT0101e Engine won't start... let's hit it with a lead weight for a while and see if the works!
  • PICT0111e Guess we will have to call the mechanic with the big-ass car battery starter!
  • PICT0114e Success! We will live after all!
  • PICT0104e Klien Bonaire (the small island to the west of Bonaire) from the boat
  • PICT0109e Will and Willing, hanging out...
  • PICT0116e Willing's still back there while we head in... where's Will?
  • PICT0117e Ahhhh. Napping
  • PICT0118e Mechanic is behind us on a rescue boat
  • PICT0122e Buddy Dive Resort
  • PICT0123e West Coast of Bonaire
  • PICT0133e Buddy Dive Resort
  • PICT0128e Buddy Dive Resort
  • PICT0129e Will and WIlling
  • PICT0130e Buddy Dive Resort
  • thurs 007 Dinner at "At Sea" Wednesday night
  • thurs 005 Sunset from "At Sea"
  • thurs 011 Cruise ship departing
  • PICT0135 Thursday... Girls are Diving with Pascal. WIll and WIlling are with me again
  • PICT0137 Will
  • PICT0138 WIlling
  • PICT0139
  • PICT0141 Sand Diver
  • PICT0144 FIsh
  • PICT0146 Blue Tang and Parrot Fish
  • PICT0147 Coral
  • PICT0156 Willing
  • PICT0159 Coral
  • PICT0160 Mushroom
  • PICT0178 Diving
  • PICT0189 Spotted Drum
  • PICT0200 Coral
  • PICT0206 Coral
  • PICT0207 Moray!
  • PICT0208 Lots o' fish
  • PICT0212 Trumpetfish.. this one was about three feet long!
  • PICT0215 Lion Fish ... invasive species, they had a course in killing them, and you could bring them back and they would cook them for you
  • PICT0216 Coral
  • PICT0221 Rock Beauty Fish... buggers were very shy
  • PICT0227 Coral
  • PICT0229 Coral
  • PICT0238 Some kind of triggerfish
  • PICT0254 French Angelfish
  • PICT0255 Me at the photo shop... decided to buy a external flash for the underwater camera
  • PICT0001 Thursday afternoon, we all head to the Salt Pier, a working pier where they load salt.
  • PICT0003b It's our first shore dive
  • PICT0012 squid A squid!
  • PICT0014 Dive Master trying to temp the squid closer
  • PICT0016b Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0018b Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0024b Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0025 Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0028 Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0029b Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0030 Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0031 Eel
  • PICT0032b Eel
  • PICT0035 Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0037 Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0038 Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0041 Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0043 Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0045 Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0046 Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0048 Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0054b Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0055b Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0057b Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0059b Diving the Salt Pier
  • IMGP0092 Box fish
  • PICT0061b Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0062b Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0064b Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0069b Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0070b Diving the Salt Pier
  • PICT0071b Puffer fish (Porcipine fish)
  • IMGP0124 Friday is a no dive day... shopping in Kralendijk
  • IMGP0125 Shopping
  • IMG 0532 Then off to Washington-Slagbaai National Park
  • thurs 100a Washington-Slagbaai National Park
  • thurs 013 Washington-Slagbaai National Park : thurs
  • thurs 015 Big-ass cactus : thurs
  • thurs 112 The root systems on the the cactus where surprisingly tree like.
  • thurs 021 Volcanic mountain
  • thurs 027 The Bonaire Parakeet. Common, colorful, noisy!
  • thurs 028 Wild goats
  • thurs 035 Washington-Slagbaai National Park : thurs
  • thurs 043 Washington-Slagbaai National Park
  • thurs 044 Rough walking surface (cause we wandered off the trail).
  • thurs 049 Washington-Slagbaai National Park
  • thurs 056 Washington-Slagbaai National Park
  • thurs 057 Washington-Slagbaai National Park
  • thurs 058 Washington-Slagbaai National Park
  • thurs 062 Washington-Slagbaai National Park
  • thurs 065 Brie found a hermit crab
  • thurs 066 Washington-Slagbaai National Park
  • thurs 069 The blow-hole
  • thurs 071 Washington-Slagbaai National Park
  • thurs 073 Washington-Slagbaai National Park
  • thurs 079 Washington-Slagbaai National Park
  • thurs 082 Washington-Slagbaai National Park
  • thurs 088 Washington-Slagbaai National Park
  • thurs 095 Washington-Slagbaai National Park
  • thurs 110 Flamigo Preserve : thurs
  • IMGP0127 Buddy Dive Resort ... a short swim with Willing after the dry park hike (everyone else went to the bar)
  • IMGP0126 Willing
  • IMGP0140 Sunset from the Pool Bar on our last night in Bonaire
  • IMGP0138 Jimmy, one of the dive instructors
  • IMGP0139 Pascal. who took the girls out for their first certified dives
  • IMG 0547 All of us with Pascal
  • IMG 0549 Brie and Jess
  • IMG 0556 Will and I
  • IMG 0560 Pascal
  • IMG 0564 Scott, the lead instructor
  • IMG 0565 Jess