For me - PBD is chronic and uncurable - Here's more....
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The finest dive sites on Earth can be found by driving along the coast road and stopping at yellow rocks marked with the site name. Bonaire diving offers total freedom - your own schedule - your own desires - your own experience or limitation.
We seldom dive Nitrox there because of the depth limits of the gas and because multi-level diving along the sloping reef gives us all the bottom time that we need or want. Every once in a while there is a time when we want to extend that bottom time out to all we can get - every precious minute to savor the magnificent beauty of the reef. Such a site is Alice in Wonderland.
We left shore on a heading directly out to sea and passed the innermost reef and kept swimming until we reached the second reef - sort of like a mountain rising from the ocean floor. We turned right and finned lazily along the outside edge at about 90 feet - drifting past lush and healthy corals, huge schools of baitfish and the Jacks that follow them. They put on quite a show for us. We gazed into the opean ocean - trying to see that turtle, eagle ray or shark that might wonder by. At half our gas supply we turned toward shore and crossed the sand flat to the inner reef and turned right again - headed back to our exit point. Queen Conch meticiously worked the sand - filtering out food particles - the garden eels doing their dance. Then - out of nowhere came the six-foot Green Moray! He wasn't afraid of us - why should he be? Just laid there like a ribbon of silk - watching us - wondering what sort of creature we were - wondering if we were good to eat.
Gas supply critical - we recognized our original place of entry and turned left - reluctantly headed for shore. The only thing making it bearable is the knowledge that we have more dives to make before day is done.
Total dive time - 51 minutes - Visibility 200+ feet - water temp 82 degrees. Pure and simple sensory overload.
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The finest dive sites on Earth can be found by driving along the coast road and stopping at yellow rocks marked with the site name. Bonaire diving offers total freedom - your own schedule - your own desires - your own experience or limitation.
We seldom dive Nitrox there because of the depth limits of the gas and because multi-level diving along the sloping reef gives us all the bottom time that we need or want. Every once in a while there is a time when we want to extend that bottom time out to all we can get - every precious minute to savor the magnificent beauty of the reef. Such a site is Alice in Wonderland.
We left shore on a heading directly out to sea and passed the innermost reef and kept swimming until we reached the second reef - sort of like a mountain rising from the ocean floor. We turned right and finned lazily along the outside edge at about 90 feet - drifting past lush and healthy corals, huge schools of baitfish and the Jacks that follow them. They put on quite a show for us. We gazed into the opean ocean - trying to see that turtle, eagle ray or shark that might wonder by. At half our gas supply we turned toward shore and crossed the sand flat to the inner reef and turned right again - headed back to our exit point. Queen Conch meticiously worked the sand - filtering out food particles - the garden eels doing their dance. Then - out of nowhere came the six-foot Green Moray! He wasn't afraid of us - why should he be? Just laid there like a ribbon of silk - watching us - wondering what sort of creature we were - wondering if we were good to eat.
Gas supply critical - we recognized our original place of entry and turned left - reluctantly headed for shore. The only thing making it bearable is the knowledge that we have more dives to make before day is done.
Total dive time - 51 minutes - Visibility 200+ feet - water temp 82 degrees. Pure and simple sensory overload.
