Thank you scubatexastony; I'm not worried about myself, it's my girlfriend who is just now completing her certification and will be doing her OW work there. She is new to all this, and struggles yet to handle her gear poolside. Myself, except for some recent lake entries I've been diving from boats. Coworkers of mine who live to dive on Bonaire have glowing reports of the easy shore dives, so I'm not too concerned. In the early 70's I did a bit of diving off the shores in Maine and Mass., and that could make for some very rough entries or exits, with the heavy surge and the rocky nature of the entry areas we had access to. Once I dived the warm (and much calmer) Carribean I never went back to the cold North Atlantic. With Sunset we're planning 6 boat dives, as many shore dives as we want, and my favorite, several night dives.