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Don't forget the occasional double-reef. ______ \ \____/\ \____ or the Hilma Hooker ___________ \ \ /^\ \_/ \__

I've seen lots of happy customers. However between the maps we got on the island and the little bit of info on shorediving.com, I don't feel like we ever lacked info we needed to find a site or make a decision. Reef maps? Really? ------\ \ \------- That'll be 20 dollars...

One thing about Bonaire... was instead of worrying about how many dives we got, we paid attention to the quality and duration. I'm not too worried about new divers doing something unsafe after reading that, as much as I am about people blowing a great vacation by robo-diving. If we liked a...

Thanks for the address Mr. Lincoln. What makes you think I disagree with what you said? Thank you for preaching something everyone already pretty much agrees with. Do you feel better for it? Also, Oil Slick has a nice wooden platform now over the rock. I could see how without it, it...

Sunrays are mean shoes. Love mine. I bought a size up of my fins used on ebay to fit them.

Are you reading that as an endorsement of a coral kicking or trying to argue that accidental contact never occurs?

I own OMS slipstream fins and when I plan to dive 4 times a day in warm/easy conditions, I wear my Atomic split fins. Staying in one place? Not a problem. The occasional frog kick when you are close to the sand looking at a shrimp. Not a problem. The current on the south end? Not a problem. I...

At what dive sites? We dove the usual west/south sites and didn't find a single site that gave my buddy problems in his soft-soles.

I wore Seasoft Sunrays which are remarkably over-engineered warm water dive boots with super soles. My dive buddy wore el cheapo Deep See 3mm soft-soled deck boots. Both of us were fine and didn't have any issues. Spring straps were the thing we appreciated most to be honest. Hard soled boots...

Once when I was on a certain island, I asked a local guy where he eats: "Subway, eat fresh mon". Sometimes fast food _is_ local food. We actually had some sandwiches from Subway in Bonaire one day when we were in the area around lunchtime. Being so remote, they have stock issues. The bin of...

Eli Deli takes some of this: And some of this: And makes you one of these: I ate it their way complete with pickles and eggs. The bread was a fresh crusty french bread. It was amazing (and I am considered a picky eater). Just try the sandwiches their way.

In case you aren't well traveled, that's how they advertise "motor oil" in some other english speaking places. Although I'm sure they sell the other stuff too....

The "no solicitors" sign would be redundant.

Okay, we've got a lot to work with here. a. thats is a pretty cool ad b. the beer is the least bad thing for you in the ad c. after several of the beers, the food there won't taste quite so horrible d. if you go to bonaire and eat KFC, you have issues When you are in Bonaire, you will notice...

Horrors of the Dutch Grocery. Cool american flavored chips. As a cool american, I can say that my flavor doesn't belong on a corn chip. Hazelnoot or Melk? I am pretty sure you would get your butt kicked for even asking for that at many restaurants in Texas. Even get the feeling that...

Well, "Finding Nemo" for a while made clownfish a lazy thing for PR/marketing types to add to underwater themed ads. We've noticed a few clowns in ads/banners/posters/murals for other parts of the caribbean as well.

Jersey, it was our first Bonaire trip. Even with the food, this was one of our least expensive dive trips. But with much better accommodations than we had in say Belize or Honduras.

Btw, the huge wall poster/mural in the airport has a clown fish on it. If there was a scuba version of Failblog, a pic of that would be on it.

Nigel Powers: All right Goldmember. Don't play the laughing boy. There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch. Car: We got on a shuttle to island car rental where we were given a chev-ro-lett. Not a chev-ro-lay, a chev-ro-lett...

Haven't seen a Frogfish yet, and I've been eyeballing every small out of place sponge I can..... Tried lovers ice cream. Its the bomb. Played fish tag with the big tarpon off buddy reef at night. Ate the Ribs Factory. Enjoyed the ribs and didn't find it expensive. Dove sweet dreams...