Interesting day today. Two dives, but one of them was the most challenging we have had as a family. It started out like all the other dives this week, but we quickly found that we had a rather severe current to deal with. About 2/3 into the dive we realized we weren’t really going that far, and we had to very carefully swim in the right direction to end up where we started. Each dive site has a buoy to mark it about 50 yard off shore, Alex did get us to the buoy on our swim back toward shore, but it was almost impossible to hold on to it due to the current.
So we each powered in to shore swimming at almost at a right angle to the current so that it would take us to the starting point. All went well, except I did run out of air! Not real serious, since I was only 20 feet down and I could go to the surface, but rather disconcerting to be swimming that hard and realize you had no air to breath. Nobody panicked, but we are a bit more careful of the currents now.
Still got some pictures though. I have included a video of Alex, Greg and Gloria fighting the current. Not real dramatic, but you can see what it is like scuba diving in Bonaire.
This is a picture taken at about 60 feet of an area probably 6 inches across, there are probably 20+ different species in the photo, amazing diversity!!
At the north end of the island is their National Park. A bit of vertical terrain, a few small lakes and flamingos!
The PM dive was fairly uneventful. No current, thankfully, but poor visibility; maybe only 30 feet. I decided to do some macro photography of the coral. These two pictures represent about an inch of coral at about 50 feet.
Gloria hasn’t told me the name of this fish yet.
Finally, a video of an iguana enjoying an apple core someone gave him. He is about 3 feet long. Prior to this scene, as we were finishing our first dive, Gloria was getting her wet suit off, when all of these lizards about a foot long came from all over to check her out. She was swatting them away like flies! Reminded us of Jurassic Park, with those little lizards that attacked people, except they were miniature dinosaurs walking on two feet, these weren’t as menacing, but just as pesky.
