Saturday, May 10, 2014

Bonaire: Dive 2 - Oil Slick Leap

83 ft/39 minutes –consumed 2,100PSI
Easy entry down a ladder after a harrowing walk across very rugged coral.  Fall here and you’ll be shredded.   The ladder drops down to a small coral platform with a cave forming under and behind the ladder.  The cave traveled well back and created a small blowhole maybe 3 inches in diameter.  

Very cool. 

We saw 3 small lionfish (in 80, 70, and 30 feet of water), one maybe the diameter of my hand with none of them larger than a dinner plate (with fins spread).  We also spotted a tarpon, a brown white spotted eel, a yellow and black small eel, a very big blue parrotfish, lots of arrow crab, hordes of trumpet and cornet fish, and oodles of other fishes – oh my.

I found an ammo can near the bottom of the Oil-slick marker guarded by a vicious damselfish.  Geocache!  Inside the can were little key chain cache items with instructions on how to register them at geocache.com and then a request to move them forward to a new cache.   I retrieved a little turtle and Mary a dolphin.

Dinner at BobeJans for delicious BBQ Ribs and Chicken Sate.  And the rum & diet coke wasn’t bad either.   Took a walk around town to burn off the drinks, found some free wifi to check in, then gelato, then home for a swim, and now playing with the day’s video.  Soon off to bed.  It’s all of 9pm.  We’re wild, I tell ya…

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