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Try parabiosis with a young mouse. How is that for outlandish? Let me know if it works. The mouse will needs its own dive gear, of course.

Brad--do you mean that you have booked flights and are looking for suggestions re where to stay? If so, I'd suggest a studio at Sand Dollar or a unit at Den Laman. Both are on Bari Reef. Walk out and into the water just a few feet away. The snorkeling is excellent all around the Bonaire Dive and...

I usually carry a slate, using it about once per trip. My wife and I communicate a lot under water using the American Sign Language alphabet to identify fish, etc. Sometimes, things demand greater explanation, or we are diving with folks who do not know the ASL alphabet. The slate I now use...

And, what about the air pressure changes during travel in mountains, in airplanes or in elevators? Are they dangerous, too?

No offense, but this is Jerry Ligon and this is lignin

Start at the beginning....the so-called "Native Americans" were invasive, too.

I have seen plenty of frogfish, but each one has been found by someone else and its location pointed out or described to me so that I could find it. I want to "stumble across" one of my own. Same for seahorses. I am in good company re the frogfish. A friend has done over 4000 dives on Bonaire...

A search of ScubaBoard will show that a minority of folks find all sorts of things wrong with Bonaire, including reef/fish status. IMHO, Bonaire remains one of the best, if not THE best, dive destination in the Caribbean. Moreover, it is one of the few places where there has been a major effort...

Richard--I think your unknowns are a sand tile fish and a school of southern sennet. Underslung jaw, slender, no blotches, decent school size. Sand tile fish has yellow snout and upper tail rays; elongated, and probably hung/cruised around a few feet off the bottom.

A Bonaire divemaster rather sheepishly admitted to me one hot summer day that he had been diving up north a few weeks earlier and had made a serious miscalculation. That is, he did not bring water with him and he became exceedingly thirsty to the point that he took a water bottle from a parked...

I have dived Bonaire many times and Curacao once, and only the west end. I like both. The diving is similar, the fish are similar. The major negative about Curacao, imho, is that many great dive locations are inaccessible except by boat. Roads simply do not provide access to the shore because...

"Good" and "Affordable" may not be compatible. Your taste and funds may dictate otherwise, but my wife and I have always enjoyed the small motel-like places that are hold-overs from the 1950's. They are one story high and have shade from a variety of trees. Much less expensive and enjoyable than...

Nope. No relation, as far as I know. My family name is a common French Canadian last name and there are more of us in New England the closer you get to Quebec.

Nice info. Sounds great. What does he charge?

On our one liveaboard trip, we were required to have with us at all times a Dive Alert-type air horn, a very bright strobe light and a safety sausage. If divers did not own them, the company provided them to rent.

Bill--watch your timing going through Aruba to/from Bonaire and from/to US. The airport can be a complete disaster because it cannot handle the crowds that arrive in droves at certain times in the afternoon. PM me if you want more info. We have been the Aruba/Bonaire route about 8 times and have...

It never hurts to have some bug spray. That said, Bonaire is deep into the dry part of the year and there will be few bugs around, for the most part, as there will be little standing water. Waterfront areas are always a bit different, so if you head out to dine near the shore, bring something...

Stay liberated!!! Be a Bonaire Beach Bum. Take 4 tanks to a dive site (say, Pink Beach) and camp, diving afternoon, dusk, midnight and dawn! Then, report back to us about re-living your youth.

I have really, really flat feet and poor ankles. However, I cannot envision a circumstance in which I would be impeded when conducting a shore dive without my usual arch supports. Usually, distance from vehicle to entry is short because of the gear involved. If the entry were a long distance...

Because of a major major problem with money handling in Venezuela, neither Tiara nor Insel have been paid huge amounts of money owed them from Venezuela. We read in the Bonaire Reporter that it was 40 million and 70 million for Tiara and Insel, respectively. Tiara could not maintain its...