Bonaire 2005

Wally Romaniak (Chicago Wally) and I decided to go to Bonaire before the rainy season this year and I picked the week after the full moon in September in hopes of getting some video of the coral spawning. It usually spawns a few days after the full moon in September of October. We also decided to try out a new resort to see how we liked it so we went to the Eden Beach Resort.

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One of the highlights (excuse to drink Brights) was Wally making his 400th dive. He made it at Andrea I, the same dive site where he made his 100th and 200th dives.

We drove up to Karpata one morning to dive one of the best sites on the northern side of the island. This iguana welcomed divers to the site.

This is a spotted moray eel on a wreck at night. He swam around for a while darting in and out of opening on the wreck.

This is a spotted eagle ray that we saw at Andrea II. That morning we saw a couple dozen eagle rays on the east side of the island when we dove with Bas.

This spotted moray eel had taken over this little cove where the juvenile drum fish seen in the foreground of the picture was living. This is the last time that I saw this drum fish in this area. I don't know if he moved or if he was eaten that night after being forced out of his cove.

Found this large starfish (slightly over a foot across) on the east side of the island at Cai when we were diving with Bas

This is a juvenile French Angel Fish swimming around a couple of small brain coral heads.

This is a southern stingray and a barracuda that we saw at Andrea II

Here is a red banded shrimp at night crawling out of his hiding place on a wreck.

This is an arrow crab at night. I could not get him to move away from the orange coral background so he is a little hard to see at first.

Bas showed us some neat things on the east side of the island. Here is a view out through a cave he took us into.

Here is Bas swimming with a turtle.

Date	Location	Dive site	Maximum depth	Bottom time
9/18/2005	Bonaire	Monte's Divi	60	64
9/18/2005	Bonaire	Witch's Hut	67	66
9/18/2005	Bonaire	Andrea I	66	62
9/18/2005	Bonaire	Eden's Rubble	81	63
9/18/2005	Bonaire	Eden's Rubble	85	52
9/19/2005	Bonaire	Boka Spelonk	85	61
9/19/2005	Bonaire	Cai	47	98
9/19/2005	Bonaire	Eden Beach Reef	77	64
9/19/2005	Bonaire	Eden Beach Reef	57	69
9/20/2005	Bonaire	Cai	49	78
9/20/2005	Bonaire	Chairs	132	62
9/20/2005	Bonaire	Bachelor's Beach	57	58
9/20/2005	Bonaire	Windsock	41	64
9/21/2005	Bonaire	Oil Slick Leap	91	61
9/21/2005	Bonaire	Andrea II	57	63
9/21/2005	Bonaire	Eden Beach Reef	76	56
9/21/2005	Bonaire	The Cliff	56	55
9/21/2005	Bonaire	Buddy's Reef	41	51
9/21/2005	Bonaire	Buddy's Reef	32	85
9/22/2005	Bonaire	Ole Blue	76	61
9/22/2005	Bonaire	Karpata	49	58
9/22/2005	Bonaire	Something Special	49	55
9/22/2005	Bonaire	Eden Beach Reef	87	25
9/22/2005	Bonaire	Angel City	60	48
9/22/2005	Bonaire	Buddy's Reef	31	68

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