Bonaire Day 6

Holy crap! It's already day 6. This week has flown by.

Last night we did a night dive on the reef just off shore from the resort. This is the third time I've made a night dive. The first one sucked as all I had was a hand held light. It's hard to swim using my hands and still see anything. Take two strokes, coast, and use the light to try to find something to look at.

The second one was last year. I had on a light that I wore on my head and a hand held light. The head light was just barely bright enough to see where I was going and if I found anything interesting, I could stop and use my hand held light. Better, but still not right.

This year I had a bright light that I could attach to my mask strap. This was bright enough to see where I was going and see other stuff. I hardly used my hand held at all. At one point in the dive we were buzzed by a big ol' tarpon. This was a very enjoyable night dive. Now that I've got the equipment worked out, I'm hooked. Cindy (the cute quad) and her family went as well. Her mother freaked out when the tarpon was buzzing us. I think she thought it was a shark.

Here's a picture of the setup I used last night.

Notice I got in a little plug for Bert's shop, Divers@Sea.

After we got our equipment stowed and we got cleaned up, seven of us went into town to get some dinner. We were gonna go to Mona Lisa but it was full. The other place we wanted to eat has closed down. We were in two cars, and American cellphones don't work in Bonaire (unless they are CDMA) and we got separated a few times. It was getting late and there weren't too many places open. We finally wound up in a bar out on a pier that got its food from a restaurant across the street. The service was slooooow. The waitress took our orders together and then split it up into separate checks later. That took about fifteen minutes. We didn't get back to the resort until midnight.

6:45 came awfully early this morning.

Did two dives this morning. Great dive sites. Duh. It's Bonaire. On the second dive we saw some tarpons and a barracuda.

The dive this afternoon was on a beautiful wall. To do the wall we had to break procedure. Normally you swim against the current for the first half of the dive and that way you can drift back to the boat. We wanted to do the wall so we drifted with the current and Graham and Charlie had to tow me back. It was an awesome wall.

Only two more dives left.

Posted by denny at September 27, 2007 04:52 PM