| BAHAMAS A few of the Donkey Divers are going to be living on a dive boat for a week in the Bahamas. Check out the web site to learn more about the
dive operation:
The pictures below are from a trip that four of us made a few years ago. |
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Four of the Donkey Divers (Johnny, Linda, Wally and I) made a quick trip to Nassau in the Bahamas in May of 2002 for a very pleasurable dive trip. The diving was good. The food was great and the company was most enjoyable. It was so much fun, we decided to do it again in August of 2004. Check back in a couple of weeks to see the pics from the latest trip. |
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We managed to find an excellent restaurant every night. |
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This was the view off our balcony. The hotel (Ocean South) was next door to Stewart Cove's dive center so we didn't have far to carry our gear. |
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Here Johnny and Linda wait for our table before dinner. |
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OK, enough of the dry pictures. Here are the ones most of you came here to see. On my second dive in the Bahamas, I was greeted by over a dozen Caribbean reef sharks. What a great welcoming party. |
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This shark was sneaking around behind me. I get a little nervous when they are swimming behind or below me. |
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These were a couple of my dive buddies on one dive. |
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This guy smiles as he approaches for a closer look. |
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I think this guy wanted to wink at me, but sharks don't have eyelids. |
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Here comes Johnny but Linda seems to be chasing that shark. |
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Johnny wished his young bride a Happy Mother's Day on this dive. |
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Who's down in there? Wally looks down into a cargo hole in this wreck. |
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He might have been surprised to see me pop out of the wreck. |
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We got to dive on lots of wrecks on this trip. Some were used in James Bond movies. |
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Can you identify this fish? I
saw this guy on a dive on a shallow reef. He disappeared under some coral so I could not
get a good picture of him. I am not sure if this is a shark or a ray. He was about 10 to
12 inches across and about 2 feet long including the tail. |
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If you blow this picture up and look closely, there is a flounder on the sand and a small cleaning shrimp has come out to clean the surface of the flounder. |
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Linda swimming with her dive buddy, the yellow stripe snapper. This guy seems to follow her. No matter where in the world we dive, he shows up to dive with Linda. |
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Johnny and Linda found this new mask and
bought it for my birthday. It has magnifying lenses that flip out of the way. They can be
flipped into place to look at fish far off under the water or Seminoles when we are on
land. How thoughtful can friends be? |
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Here I am trying out my new mask underwater. Notice that the telescopic lenses are engaged in this picture. |
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This is always a good sight when you are running low on air and the sharks are circling. "I found the boat again." |
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Johnny and Wally hanging on to the safety stop line. |
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Well, once we leave the dive sight, this guy figured there was no need to stick around. Things get boring once the Donkey Divers are gone. |
To see pictures from other dive
trips, click on the button below to go to my SCUBA page. It has links to
other pages of pictures and dive reports from many different dive trips
over the years. 
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