Bonaire Trip Report 3-6-10 - 3-13-10 (Pic heavy)

[reefduffer]

... The Hilma Hooker is still huge; you swim toward the open blue sea, then it seems 'fuzzy' or something, and suddenly your entire oncoming field of view is a dark wall of your side of the ship. There's no little ship in the distance; it's just suddenly there, close up. ...

I'm just struck by the similarity with our experience. Here's what I said in my trip report for December '08:

"The Hilma Hooker was an experience, the biggest wreck we'd seen. A 130' freighter with its nose at just barely 100' and it's stern at 55' or so. We swam towards it per the briefing at about 70', looking for a boat. By the time we were close enough to resolve features and recognize it, we couldn't see it all, we had thought the dark shape ahead was the reef. Bam! And suddenly there's a wreck in front of us"

Thanks for the report, especially the pics.

 

[Barb729]

Thanks for sharing. Great pics & report.
Count down to Bonaire, 63 days to paradise.

 

[Basscat]

Great report and pics, thanks! I'm wheels up in 63 days for my first trip there, now I really can't wait

 

[shred]

Great report!My wife,sister and I are really looking forward to our trip in a few weeks.

 

[morecowbells]

That's the diving equivalent of saying you're going to "give crack a try" sometime.

:shocked2:

"Dude, you got it all wrong man... I can stop diving Bonaire any time I want"

Lol! Perhaps it is a good thing that I have not visited Bonaire yet. The airline flight times and prices are still a deal breaker. Could become an expensive addiction.

 

[Mike]

Very cool pictures and report!

If you stay here, take some dive lights out at night & walk the shore, studying where the waves wash over the rocks. As usual we found prowling chain moray eels at night; I found 2 juvenile spiny lobsters. You can also look from their pier.

I'm going to remember that. When we were in Roatan there was a restaurant on the water that has 3-4 green morays that hang out there under their lights, you can eat dinner and watch them.

 

[drrich2]

Mike:

When I mentioned the chain morays, think about 1.5 to 2 feet long, on the beach side where the waves coming in at night form 'puddles' with a rock shelf between the puddle & the main ocean. The wave comes over the rock shelf & replenishes/floods the puddle, recedes, comes again, etc...

Here is one of Wallob's photos from our first trip to Bonaire; be mindful we're standing on the beach walking up & down the shoreline of Eden's Rubble and the land north of it.

Richard.

 

[deeper thoughts]

Thnx for the report

 

[christnk1]

Great pics!

 

[Drewpy]

Excellent!! Great pics!
I am amazed at how fast the "Our Confidence" wreck has deteriorated! Man a few more years and it will be gone!