Bonaire - Divers Paradise |
Sand Dollar Resort |
Shore Diving Capital of the World...park, gear up & dive! |
Bari Reef is the house reef for the Sand Dollar |
waters edge view of the Sand Dollar |
My Home is my Castle. |
Goldentail Moray |
Scary Looking Dude |
Purple Stove-Pipe Sponge, Black & White Crinoid and Rick |
Bonaire Seascape |
Rising Sun |
Flamingo Tongue |
Unfurling |
Lettuce Sea Slug w/uncommonly seen blue tint |
Lettuce Sea Slug , another view |
Peppermint Shrimp Roll |
Arrow Crab |
Rising Up |
Queen Parrotfish, Initial Phase |
Sleeping Parrotfish |
Parrotfish being cleaned and damn happy about it |
There is nothing quite like getting your eyeball cleaned! |
It's lunchtime, I think I'll have a little brain... |
Eyes Wide Shut |
Grandpa and his Wacky Face |
Lurking in the Shadows |
Little Puffer |
Slender Filefish |
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Cute one |
Swaying with the gorgonian and trying to go unnoticed |
The Eyes Have It |
Identity Crisis |
Free Swimming Fireworm on a Night Dive |
Bearded Fireworm |
What are you looking at? |
Another Visitor? |
Cool Chin Rest |
Eye's straight foreward, but check out the NEXT picture... |
My cool eye trick! |
Southern Teardrop Crab & Orange Tube Anenomes |
Spotted Trunkfish, AKA Hotlips |
Seahorse Portrait |
Hanging on |
Arrow Crab clinging to the tube sponge |
Tube Sponge and Brittle Star |
Now That's a Colorful Bedroom |
Sleeping Puffer - a little closer view |
Little Teardrop Crab |
Squeezing out the sponge |
Yellow Highway |
Snake in the Grass |
Mountain Road |
Zig Zag |
Scorpionfish |
Where did those cleaners go? |
Hawksbill Turtle, Flippers Up |
Green Sea Turtle |
Green Sea Turtle Portrait |
Susie found this one sleeping, until we woke him up... |
Another Hawksbill |
Count Dracula |
Susie |
Self Portrait |
Center of attention |
Grouper feeling a little green |
French Angelfish |
Tube Dweller |
Little Shrimp (oxymoron?) |
Staircase |
We Spotted a "Spotted Cleaner Shrimp" |
Mirror Mirror on the Wall |
Waiting for customers |
Another Cleaner |
Hang on |
Finger Licking Good |
Up close and personal |
Banded Butterflyfish |
Craps anyone? |
Double the fun |
The Lineup |
The Big Purple House |
Reaching Out |
Stovepipes |
Sunrise at Andrea I |
Orange Elephant Ear, Schooling Fish, and Rick |
Red Dawn |
wide angle of Rick |
Branching Vase Sponge, Sponge Brittle Stars & Rick |
Same Branching Vase Sponge, different pose |
Smoke signals |
Purple Stove-Pipe Sponge, Black & White Crinoid and Rick |
Another Bonaire Reefscape |
Group of Azure Vase Sponges & Rick |
Caribbean Spiny Lobster |
Huge Caribbean Spiny Lobster |
Checking out the camera |
Electric Blue |
The Maze |
Cleaning Goby and Brain Coral |
Goldspot Goby Snuggled in |
Froggy |
Frogfish under the Christmas Tree |
Froggy Portrait |
Mugshot |
Longlure Frogfish |
Another view of Froggy |
Microscopic, lot's of little guys were found on the reef |
Feather Duster |
Fish Bowl |
Green with envy |
Scrawled Filefish up close |
Anemones, Bridle Cardinalfish and a Two Claw Shrimp |
Fish escaping the big white blob |
Spotted Spiny Lobster |
Azure Vase Sponge, Bicolor Damselfish & Spotted Trunkfish |
Caribbean Reef Squid |
More reef squid in the shallows at Tori's Reef |
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Bari Reef Squid |
Iridescent Caribbean Reef Squid |
Arms Up |
Arms Twisted |
On the lens |
Curious about the camera |
Relaxing Pose |
Spazed Out |
The Court Jester |
Close Fly By |
A little close and puckered up... |
Fancy Squid Hairdo |
Susie's favorite encounter on this dive |
Daytime Squid |
Brainyack |
Pederson Cleaner Shrimp? |
Juvenile Spotted Drum |
Peacock Flounder |
Bonaire Mantis Shrimp - rare find |
Whitespotted filefish |
Sleepy Head |
Hanging on the Rim |
Any closer and I'm back in the tube |
Is the coast clear? |
Banded Coral Shrimp |
Coral Polyps |
Pea in a Pod |
Pea in a Pod, the sequel |
Night time on the reef, the polyps are out... |
Orange Cup Coral |
Twisted Sister |
Reach for it |
Feeling Silver |
Peppermint Shrimp |
Spotted Moray |
A little curious |
I Hear You Knocking, But You Can't Come In |
Christmas Tree worm |
Another Christmas Tree worm |
Bonaire Octopus |
Azure Vase Sponge & Gorgonians |
Auditioning for the Band |
Rick and Susie |
Azure Vase Sponge, Spotted Moray and a Foureye Butterflyfish |
large Porcupinefish |
Splash of Lavender |
Susie at unmarked site "The Rock" |
Susie in B&W |
Last dive of the trip was done without water |
Not where you want to spend your last dive |
Dr. Juan Botero, Harold, and Bent diver Rick |
Chamber Gauges |
Inside the chamber, nice and cozy |
Over/Under at Sand Dollar |
Snorkeling Susie |
Snorkeling at the Sand Dollar Reef Balls |
Large cross @ Seru Largu |
Cross @ Seru Largu |
Seru Largu summit |
White Slave Huts |
Kite Surfing by Fish Hut |
Salt, Pink Water, and Foam |
Bonaire Sea Salt |
fishing boats |
Iggy at the Sand Dollar |
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Parrot on the grounds @ Sand Dollar |
Ahh, this is the life... |
We found a nice chair to relax on between dives |
Susie hogging the chair |
Bonaire Pelican |
Coming in for a Landing |
Sunshine, Sea & Susie |
Susie |
Brilliant Sunset |
View of the Sunset from the Sand Dollar |
another view... |
View of Buddies from the Sand Dollar |
Sand Dollar Dock at Night and Den Laman Apartments |
Bonaire Coast and Pelican |
More relaxing between dives |
Susie kicking back |
The Sun Setting on our 4th Bonaire Trip |
Bonaire Part II, December 22-30th 2007 |
Rick |
Susie |
Rick and Susie Self Portrait |
Red Reef Hermit Crab, Paguristes cadenati |
Climbing theTube |
First Born, Red Reef Hermit crab with hatchlings (Paguristes cadenati) |
Trumpet Fish |
Juvenile French Angel |
Sand Diver |
Redlip Blenny |
Rose Garden |
Going to School |
Scorpionfish |
Scorpionfish |
Peacock Flounder |
Peacock Flounder |
Tube Anemone |
Mr. Curly |
A Little Green |
A Little Green with a Dab of Brown |
Juvenile Spotted Drum |
Bonaire Octopus |
Susie |
Schoolmaster |
Feeling Droopy |
Head on |
Jack Portrait |
Blue Tang |
Red-Ridged Clinging Crab |
Red-Ridged Clinging Crab |
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Lots of Color |
Hermit Crab |
Bearded Fireworm |
Bearded Fireworm |
Bearded Fireworm |
Holding On |
Mountain Pass |
Giant Basket Star |
Basket Star with Basket Star Shrimp |
Basket Star Shrimp |
Red Hind |
Parrotfish |
Open Wide |
Juvenile Trunkfish |
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File Fish |
File Fish |
File Fish |
File Fish |
Puffer |
Puffer |
Rocky Road |
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Hermit Crab |
Spotted Spiny Lobster |
Spotted Spiny Lobster |
Shrimp |
Yellowtail Snapper |
Trumpet Fish |
Lettuce Sea Slug |
Lettuce Sea Slug |
Smooth Trunkfish |
Line Up |
Jack |
Little puffer chillin on the sponge |
Running in Circles |
Coral Polyps |
Batwing Coral Crab |
Reaching |
Bonaire Scallop |
Hide Out |
Hogfish and a Brittle Star |
Well Rounded |
Three Amigos |
Peppermint Goby |
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Puffer |
Down the tube |
Got Soap? (Soapfish) |
Soapfish |
Decorator Crab |
Highly Decorated Decorator Crab |
Another Decorator Crab |
Decorator Crab on the tube |
Slippery Slope |
Decorator with big red gun |
Another Decorator |
Parrot Fish Eye |
I wonder why I wake up every morning with a sore forehead? |
Never been kissed |
Elusive Bonaire Nudibranch |
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Halloween |
Polyp explosion |
Banded Shrimp with cool face |
The Road Less Traveled |
Sponge Brittle Bob |
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Old Man Face (jolthead porgy) |
My friends call me blue |
Trumpet fish |
Reef Crab |
Catching some zzz's |
Green with Envy |
Caribbean Reef Octopus |
The Stretch |
Sharpnose Puffer |
Tubing It |
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Soldierfish |
Purple Highway |
Hawksbill Turtle |
Early Morning Hawksbill |
Hawksbill Turtle Portrait |
Queen Angelfish |
Spotfin Butterflyfish |
French Angelfish |
French Angelfish |
French Angelfish on the lens |
Spotted Moray Eel with Cleaner |
That's the spot... |
My lips are sealed (Chain Moray) |
Chain Moray |
Andrea I, Bonaire |
Climbing the pole (Teardrop Crab) |
Orange Cup Coral |
Purple Tube/Rick |
Wrapped UP |
Tube Anemone |
Chin Rest |
Purple Tube & Rick |
Rick @ Karpata |
Honeycomb Cowfish |
Orange Elephant Ear/ Rick |
Purple Tube & Rick |
Please Clean Me... |
Fireworm macro |
Christmas Tree Worm |
Christmas Tree Worm |
shrimp macro |
Feather Duster Super Macro |
Fireworm Macro |
Hermit |
crab |
Bellyfull of eggs |
Basket Star |
Bearded Fireworm & Blenny |
Blenny |
Blenny |
Blenny |
Blenny |
Cleaner Shrimp |
Eating a worm |
Blenny |
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Purple Tube Anemone |
Barracuda |
Free Swimming Green Moray |
Shrimp macro |
Angel City, Bonaire |
Rick with the trip winding down |
Susie |
In Coming.... |
Red Slave Huts |
Red Slave Huts |
Which Way? |
Bonaire Flamingos |
Willemstoren Lighthouse |
Willemstoren Lighthouse |
Windsurfing @ Sorobon Beach |
Windsurfer @ Sorobon Beach |
December 27, 2008 - January 4 2009 |
Yellow Seahorse |
Seahorse |
Seahorse portrait |
Hogfish eating a brittlestar |
Rainbow Parrotfish |
Blue Tang |
Blue Tang School |
Spotted Filefish |
Cleaning Goby |
Sleeping Puffer |
Dwarf Blenny |
Viper Moray |
Shrimp and Sea Cucumber |
Flamingo Tongue |
Anemone and Cleaner Shrimp |
Octopus |
Hermit Crab running the tube |
Peppermint Shrimp |
Decorator Crab |
Christmas Tree Worm and coral polyps |
Christmas Tree Worm Garden |
Wildside Turtle |
Turtle on the Wildside |
Wildside Tarpon, Blue Hole |
Thick |
Blue Hole, Wildside |
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Extended polyps and goby |
Wire Coral Shrimp |
Hermit Crab |
Urchin |
Sponge bed |
Decorator Crab |
Shrimp and Anemone |
Sleeping juvenile |
Yellowtail Snapper |
Tiger Grouper |
Tiger Grouper, Karpata |
Tiger Grouper |
Lettuce Sea Slug |
Spotted Drum |
Bonaire Urchin |
Decorator Crab |
Arrow Crab |
French Angelfish |
Hermit Crab |
Hermit Crab |
Bari Reef Octopus |
On the prowl |
Whitespotted Filefish |
Whitespotted Filefish |
Whitespotted Filefish |
Casper |
Spotted Scorpionfish |
Open Wide, Spotted Scorpionfish |
Sand Diver |
Old Man Face |
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Orangespotted Filefish |
Susie, sunrise dive at "The Rock" |
Goldentail Moray |
Soapfish |
Scrawled Filefish |
Scrawled Filefish |
Polyp Hideout |
King of the Hill |
Spotted Trunkfish |
Sleeping Puffer and Brittlestar |
Tube anemone |
Colorful Tube Amenome |
Cleaning Goby |
Goatfish |
Hemit Tube |
Juvenile Damselfish |
Jack |
Schoolmaster |
Caribbean Reef Squid |
Lettuce Sea Slug |
Lettuce Sea Slug |
Lettuce Sea Slug |
Christmas Tree Worm |
Christmas Tree Worm |
Lofty Triplefin |
Cleaner Shrimp |
Peacock Flounder |
Peacock Flounder |
Spotted Eagle Rays |
Tarpon, Blue Hole Wildside |
Rick |
Rick |
Bucktoothed |
French Angelfish |
Spinyhead Blenny |
A little Tipsy |
Talkative |
Blenny |
Constipated |
Scorpionfish |
Scorpionfish |
Roughhead Triplefin |
Donkey near Karpata |
Bonaire Wild Donkey |
Sunset at Den Laman |
Our Coral Wall, at "The Rock" |
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