Bonaire June 14-21

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rlskill1

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We are headed for Bonaire on June 14 for a week of great diving! 15 of us are making the trek. Pics and reports during the trip or upon our return.

We are staying at Eden Beach and diving with Wannadive.

Roger
 
We will be at Habitat starting Saturday as well. Have a great trip!:blessing:
T.C., Report! :cheerleader:
We are on Delta along with a group T.C. is part of-he and the group are staying at Buddy's.
 
jimw, this is T.C. Sitrep follows; break.

43 hours till touchdown. Green 2 green. Slant 3. Negative contact with water yet.
Bags packed and staged for movement on order. We are continuing TLPs to execute mission. Break.

Intent remains to continue movement to LD ATL on schedule, then commence movement to contact and secure OBJ Buddy Dive NLT 141600JUNE14, and conduct continuous dive ops in and around OBJ Buddy Dive. Standing by. Over.




I can translate that into English if you'd like. :D rlskill, Good to hear from you, sounds like you'll have fun! I'll be there with a group of about 24 divers at Buddy Dive. Are you going on the Atlanta flight? if so, I'll see you at the airport; look for the guy with a green Bonaire Shirt, shorts, an ACU backpack, and a black Sealife Camera bag.

jimw is easy to spot; he's the ugly one. :D

Maybe we can put together a Scubaboard dive. I know there will be another Scubaboarder there at the same time.
 
Sitting in Aruba awaiting flight to Bonaire early afternoon. Will be at Bruce Bowker's CArib Inn June 13-21.
 
You guys will all have a great time!

was 81 last week on Thursday and about 60ft viz, not sure about now that was my last dive day of the trip!
 
You guys will all have a great time!

was 81 last week on Thursday and about 60ft viz, not sure about now that was my last dive day of the trip!

+1

We just got home... Our week it was a consistent 81. Viz varied from 60 - 100.

Jim
 
We are flying Insel Air out of Charlotte-Curacao-Bonaire
 
We are staying at Eden Beach and diving with Wannadive.

My 1st 4 Bonaire trips were with the group Parrot Island Divers out of Nashville, TN, back when Eden Beach Resort was under the old management. Since then I've visited their Spice Club restaurant once; it was okay, but I thought it was pricier than some other options. A few thoughts on your location.

1.) The house 'reef' is Eden's Rubble. Don't know it. The shallow rocky ledge has crevices, the rubble area sometimes has sea cucumbers and scorpionfish, and out aways there's a bowl-like depression with the wreck of the Bakanal oh, maybe 80 feet? Not the Hilma Hooker, but you can take a photo of the whole thing.

2.) Night dives here can be interesting. Lots of anemones stick out of the sand, and can pull back in real fast.

3.) At the extreme north end of the property, you can enter & head north. There's a tug boat down around 90 feet. I think the dive site will be Front Porch.

4.) Enter at the south end of the property and head south, and years ago, there was a wreck called the Our Confidence. Old worn wooden wreck back then; I don't know what it looks like now.

5.) If boat's moored off shore are perpendicular to shore, current's probably mild. If the current's turned them parallel to shore, you might not want to dive there till that changes.

6.) At night, walk along shore with your dive light. Where the water washes over the flat rocky area, chain moray eels crawl along, hunting. An LED dive light that you can run out of water without overheating, and has a long battery life, is nice for this.

Richard.
 

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