Travel days are always taxing when you are heading to a great destination. We met up with most of our dive group in Calgary on Friday evening and then flew into Houston where we joined a few more of the group before getting on a midnight flight out of Houston into Bonaire. The flights were fine and we had no issues with customs, security, flights so that part was all good. Wade and I were happy to see our bags arrive on the tiny carousel in the Bonaire airport but were sad to hear that two of our group members were not so lucky! Hopefully their bags will arrive tomorrow...it’s hard to dive with no gear!
It is very warm and humid here which feels GREAT! I was surprised to see so many huge cacti growing everywhere...they even make fences out of cacti! We saw some flamingoes when we left the airport and there were lots of other birds in the trees around us too. Our first impression of Bonaire...it is quite a lot like Ambergris Caye in Belize...it has a very similar feel :-).
We got to our resort at about 7am so our rooms weren’t quite ready for us yet...but breakfast was on so we did our check in paperwork and then headed over to the restaurant. After breakfast we gathered in the pool bar for our ‘orientation’ session. Everyone who dives in Bonaire needs one so that we all know the rules for diving here...basically do no harm...no touching anything. No taking anything out of the water living or dead...you know...good stuff like that.
By that time our rooms were ready so we got our stuff put away and squeezed in a tiny nap before heading to the dock to do our ‘check out’ dive. Basically our first dive to make sure everything is working as it should be both for equipment and our skills :-).
This was a nice dive. It is great that there is such cool stuff to see just a few fin kicks away from our dock. We saw lots of our old friends from Cayman and Belize...Jacks, puffers, angels, trunk fish, trumpet fish and plenty of pretty corals and sponges...really great conditions, super visibility and calm waters. A relatively shallow dive of max 55 feet or so. We were down for about 40 minutes and then headed back to rinse off the salt :-). We didn’t take our camera gear down with us for this dive but I can see lots of opportunities to dive here again and take some pics and video.
After our dive we went and got our rental truck and did a quick trip to the nearby market. Our condo has a full kitchen so we wanted to stock up on a few essentials...you know... beer and pepsi LOL. Next on the agenda was dinner so we gathered at the pool bar once again for a happy hour drink and some good food.
Tomorrow brings diving, diving and more diving...and yes we’re taking the camera!
It is very warm and humid here which feels GREAT! I was surprised to see so many huge cacti growing everywhere...they even make fences out of cacti! We saw some flamingoes when we left the airport and there were lots of other birds in the trees around us too. Our first impression of Bonaire...it is quite a lot like Ambergris Caye in Belize...it has a very similar feel :-).
We got to our resort at about 7am so our rooms weren’t quite ready for us yet...but breakfast was on so we did our check in paperwork and then headed over to the restaurant. After breakfast we gathered in the pool bar for our ‘orientation’ session. Everyone who dives in Bonaire needs one so that we all know the rules for diving here...basically do no harm...no touching anything. No taking anything out of the water living or dead...you know...good stuff like that.
By that time our rooms were ready so we got our stuff put away and squeezed in a tiny nap before heading to the dock to do our ‘check out’ dive. Basically our first dive to make sure everything is working as it should be both for equipment and our skills :-).
This was a nice dive. It is great that there is such cool stuff to see just a few fin kicks away from our dock. We saw lots of our old friends from Cayman and Belize...Jacks, puffers, angels, trunk fish, trumpet fish and plenty of pretty corals and sponges...really great conditions, super visibility and calm waters. A relatively shallow dive of max 55 feet or so. We were down for about 40 minutes and then headed back to rinse off the salt :-). We didn’t take our camera gear down with us for this dive but I can see lots of opportunities to dive here again and take some pics and video.
After our dive we went and got our rental truck and did a quick trip to the nearby market. Our condo has a full kitchen so we wanted to stock up on a few essentials...you know... beer and pepsi LOL. Next on the agenda was dinner so we gathered at the pool bar once again for a happy hour drink and some good food.
Tomorrow brings diving, diving and more diving...and yes we’re taking the camera!
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