Bonaire Trip Report - May 2015

[gbf]

Yes, my last dive trip will be July 2016 to the Red Sea, where I have booked back to back liveaboard trips to the far north and central destinations.
The retirement was planned and not enforced. I do enjoy my diving a lot but I made a promise to my wife 9 years ago when I started diving. We put a lot of land based holidays on hold to satisfy my diving bug and it was agreed that I would dive for 10 years and retire. Afterwards, we plan to start going to all those other holdays - Inca Trail etc in Peru, Central Asian Silk Routes, Patagonia, Madagascar (not to dive), Transylvania, New Zealand etc

Sounds like a good plan to me.

We have a similar plan. My bride likes the camping/hiking thing, and I believe the Hampton Inn is roughing it. So she's going to do the trips i wouldn't enjoy (she just got back from a rafting trip down the Grand Canyon) and I'll punch a few of my dive bucket-list items over the next few years. Then we can do some civilized trips together. For example, I want to rent one of those canal boats in the UK and do a pub-crawl on the canals.

 

[mbs]

"Apart from limited visibility at Red Slave, all the dives were very good. I did not enjoy the entries and exits and bet that the crew would have had a quiet laugh behind my back at my clumsiness."

Yes, my wife and I have had some of those not so graceful entries and exits. I always get a good chuckle when I recall her exclamation when things go bad: "And down she goes!" Fortunately no one scores you on your entries and exists, it's your trim and buoyancy when you are under that is important.

Ditto! Just back a couple of weeks now. One memorable entry at Vista Blue we just got in waist deep and my wife notices my tank is slipping out. She has a brand new knee and instead of asking her to deal with it I said I'd walk out and set back up on the rocks. As I'm doing that I hear her and turn and she has followed me back in a bit and got knocked down by a wave and is getting tossed around in the surf. I run out to help her just as another couple are coming by. They had that oh my god what a train wreck look on their faces. I said we're fine, have a nice dive Still finding sand tucked away in the nooks and crannies of her bc On a positive note the new knee held up great even after a couple of knock downs!!
And u are correct, we looked much better under water!
Back on topic, nice trip report and photos! Not sure if I am going to post one this year. After 8 years (I think) it might be enough to say see last year's report