Sunset over Klein Bonaire (little island off the coast) |
Nice Tube Sponges everywhere |
Spotted Moray eel |
Spotted Drum (adult) |
Spotted Drum (adult) |
Spotted Drum (adult) |
Closer look |
Churcher - Good dive buddy, close by, we were the only ones at this site |
tube sponge |
Large Trumpetfish |
Trumpetfish |
Trumpetfish |
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Sand Diver? |
View from beach at 1000 steps dive site |
View North from 1000 steps dive site |
Parrotfish and reef |
Another Sand Diver |
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Stove pipe sponge |
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Huge Brain Coral |
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Over-exposed picture of sponges and coral |
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Scrawled filefish |
Church made some nice finds!! Good dive!! |
View climbing up 1000 steps (actually only 67 steps - feels like 1000) |
Back at our truck |
Truck and tanks - Diving freedom!! |
Arid dessert like terrain |
1000 steps - great dive |
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Churcho in his "Men of Scuba Mr November" pose |
Goldspotted eel |
Actully think its a Sharptail eel |
Scorpionfish!! (poisonous) |
Scorpionfish!! (poisonous) |
Scorpionfish!! (poisonous) |
Porcupinefish |
Honeycomb Cowfish |
Another Spotted Drum |
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Dark out (wasn't a night dive, we started without tourches, woops) |
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Healthy coral |
More Stove pipe sponges |
Queen Angelfish swims away |
View of island on our 1st boat dive |
Spotted Drum (Juvenile) |
Spotted Drum (Juvenile) |
Trumpetfish |
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Smooth Trunkfish |
Barred Hamlet |
Yellowtail Snappers |
More Yellowtail Snappers |
Filefish |
Close up of the Scrawled Filefish |
Trumpetfish |
Trumpetfish closeup |
Lots of Yellowtail Snappers |
Dog Snapper? |
Honeycomb Cowfish |
Peacock Flounder |
Lizards join us for lunch |
Lizard hiding |
Lizards join us for lunch |
They aren't scared of people |
View of the saltmines from the water |
Huge Green Moray Eel |
Green Moray Eel |
Spotted Moray Eel |
Spotted Moray Eel |
Spotted Moray Eel |
Spotted Moray Eel |
Great looking Scorpionfish |
Tough, sharp, painful exit at alice in wonderland |
Wild Donkey |
Another Donkey |
Wild donkies |
Sunset |
Sunset |
Stunning sky |
Wideangle of the sunset |
Sunset |
Think there was a seahorse here, but I can't find it or I missed it |
was a frogfish here that I missed with the camera |
Overexposed smooth trunkfish |
Queen Angelfish |
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Porcupinefish |
Porcupinefish |
View north from a southern divesite |
View of the saltmines |
View of the beach and our truck |
German style self portrait |
Hilma Hooker wreck |
Church and the wreck |
Church and the wreck |
Tarpoon that lives at the wreck |
View of Church from partially inside the wreck |
Hilma Hooker wreck |
Hilma Hooker wreck |
Hilma Hooker wreck |
Hilma Hooker wreck |
Hilma Hooker wreck |
Sgt Majors |
Portholes of the wreck |
Hilma Hooker wreck |
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Peacock Flounder |
Sharp slippery rocks, and my tank fell off as well. Church was nice enough to safeguard my camera for me |
Nice view of the beach |
Some Donkeys on the rough interior of the island |
Donkeys |
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Donkey |
Cactus plants everywhere |
Relaxing under a tree between dives |
natural umbrella |
As we were in the water getting ready to decend, a 747 came rediculously close to us!! Turns out this dive site is right at the end of the islands runway!! |
Orange Sponge |
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Elephant ear sponge |
Giant Green Moray Eel that was upset with Church for some reason |
Green Moray Eel |
Close up of the Green Moray Eel |
Get close then get closer!! |
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Smooth trunkfish |
Another sunset |
Sunset |
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Sunset over Klein Bonaire |
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Sailboat was 2 minutes too late |
Buddy's dive |
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Pink Flamingos are indiginous here |
Pink Flamingos in the pouring rain |
Slave house |
Slave huts that were used at the salt mines |
Slaves huts lined up |
Me and the slave hut |
Rows of them |
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Me and the huts (in my indian Om shirt) |
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White slave huts |
White slave huts on the beach |
Picturesque |
View of the ocean |
Pelican |