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How To Dress Your Truck for Diving Or Beware The DickBird Shore diving on Bonaire is easy. Get your truck/jeep. Throw a couple of bottles of water you froze the night before in the cab. Throw a 2 liter bottle of tap water in the back. Drive to the dive site. Put your car keys/room key/ID in...

Salt Pier can be a really gloomy dive. Between 4-5pm the angle of the sun is nice for a well lit dive with lots of activity. If it is a lot of trouble to do Salt Pier when the stars align just right, it is a fine dive to skip altogether. It is near several other dive sites that are great...

Still adding my thoughts to this "Bonaire Shore Diving Made Stupid" guide, my unofficial addendum to "Bonaire Shore Diving Made Easy". 1000 steps Dilemma: Do I want to climb down about 75 stone stairs to dive, then climb back up them when I am done? Answer: This reef is covered in algae at...

Saw this guy on Bari reef at night. I believe it is a baby scorpionfish. The guy whose image I cribbed also had problems ID'ing the one he photographed.

Borrowing some pics from Ned Deloach, I finally found a long spine urchin shrimp on a night dive. Also, we saw several red snapping shrimp using Ned's pic as a guide. I reviewed this blog entry http://fishid.com/marinelifeblog/?p=795 each time I went to Bonaire so I could more easily...

Also, rare find. harlequin pipefish, we found it when we weren't looking away from the reef on the chance encounter we might see kraken in the deep blue. No picture. But I found a pic elsewhere on scubaboard...

Go here: Buy a single scoop of this on a cone. Its 1.75 for a single scoop. It is a small scoop. It is not a pint of ice cream on a cone. It is a great afternoon snack. We went there three times. We like Lover's Ice Cream as well, but Gio's has some amazing treats in sensible portions with...

Another Bonaire trip in the bucket. We stayed at Den Laman from Apr 30 to May 7th. We found an off season special at Den Laman, some reward tickets on Delta, and some vacation time. After this second trip, I wanted to do a trip report but instead it sort of came out as an editorial. Let's...

I went in august. If you think you missed shrimps, lobsters, and octopi, you should have dove Buddy's at night and swam along the shoreline. It's basically covered in shrimp and juvenile lobsters. Saw decorator crabs in the shallows on the way to the wall. Dive near the salt pier and the...

Note: the GRI web site is now down. To anyone else that Liz and her husband stiffed on money, your quest is now over (unless New Jersey small claims court can recover it, might be worth looking into).

I'm putting down a deposit at Den Laman and planning on having a great time in Bonaire again in May. Lesson learned, when a merchant doesn't settle their debt to you, give them 2 weeks and then let Amex/Visa settle it with them. I'm out 735 dollars unless I want to file a small claims in...

I'm not sure Amex support is really needed. I paid for a stay for 2 on Amex, while there, Liz charged the second person for their share of the stay and said she would chargeback half of what I paid. We get back from Bonaire (August), nothing has posted. More time goes by, no chargeback...

As someone patiently waiting over 6 months for a refund (extremely patiently), due to Amex chargeback issues from Bonaire. I would like to suggest something called "Paypal". I was hoping to at least get my money back before GRI changed hands. We had such a good time, it's a shame the billing...

I have full confidence that they will clear the books before passing the title. I just wanted to remind them since they've had all these health issues on their minds and Liz (who handled this stuff) laid up.

Who should we contact for billing issues while you are out of commission? I've been trying to get a chargeback for months now. I'm fine working with Ed or whoever (or even the Dutch). Last I heard, there were problems with doing Amex chargebacks. But I can also take money via paypal or check.

Is there another low frills off-beach place like GRI? wireless internet and a small AC unit in the bedroom are all we need.

My dive partner was trying to book dates with them and said they've fallen off the radar for almost 4 weeks. Does anyone know if the owners are okay?

Full. There is one small store on the island and the other places to eat are at other dive resorts.

If they were fished out, the divers who made a spectacle of their presence making it known are partially to blame. A few years ago, tiger sharks were made easy victims in South Africa as well. Advertising "sharks here" is a great help to fishers.