Diving
20 December 2008 | Bonaire
pilott / clear and breezy
Well, once that first cheeseburger was behind us it was time for the real action. As I've said diving is Bonaires life blood and we were going to help it keep pumping. We had purchased 50 air fills and were bound to use them up if we could! This is the only place we've been that rivals the Bahamas for water clarity. It is not unusual to have visibility in excess of 100ft. One of the really cool circumstances about diving here is you don't have to hire a local dive shop to take you out like in so many places in the eastern caribbean. Here you can jump in your dinghy and head out to one of a hundred sites with friends or just the two of you. You do your dive and come up for a cold beer and head back to the boat. You've just saved $100 or more. The fish are tame by most standards and a close up view is the norm. There are turtles at nearly every site and they will swim close to you for a look at the strange fish invading their habitat. So our days went, a dive in the morning and cocktails on one boat or another in the evenings. We were expecting company in Bonaire, but not for a few weeks yet. So we decided to head for Curacao as we had plans to fly out of there to Fl for Fantasy Fest, one of the worlds great bachannals. Little did we know!!!!!