last day in Bonaire

Gone in the blink of an eye. 

Sorry I haven't been as good about keeping a blog this trip.  It's a combination of getting a little injured on our dive day 2 and getting a little sick.  But nevertheless, I've had a fantastic vacation.  We did 6 days of diving:
Day 1 - Bari's Reef and Something Special,
Day 2 - a little mishap at 1000 steps and an aborted dive then Angel City and Bachlor's Beach,
Day 3 - The cliff, the lake, and something special again
Day 4 - Oil slick, Alice in Wonderland
Day 5 - Funchi (east side), Invisibles
Day 6 - Hilma Hooker, Alice in Wonderland and Something Special (yup, for the 3rd time)

Drumfish

Burrfish

Spotted Moray Eel with Banded Coral Shrimp

Christmas tree made of Christmas Tree worms

Queen Angelfish

cute blue fish in the shallows

Porcupinefish

Baby trunkfish sucking up some mucus

vibrant Filefish

What is this??

flounder

Green Moray Eel

Eagle ray

Add caption

Day 1 in Bonaire - Diver's Paradise

I absolutely love this place. After the amazing apartment at Den Lamen last year, I had to come back. This year, I have an even better apartment - ocean front with a wrap around balcony that fits a full dining table and 2 lounge chairs with room to spare. It's really luxurious.  

Today was our first day of diving and it was by far the most amazing first day every.  On our first dive, we saw 2 octopuses, one of them just out in open. I've never seen such a thing. There were so many groups of fish and pairs of fish. Really beautiful.

Our second dive was at Something Special which is always a favorite. Beautiful plentiful fish as always.  We must have seen 5+ eels, 3 spotted sea snakes, a lobster, and 5+ porcupinefish which I totally love.

Banded Coral Shrimp

Mr. Octopus 

And his lady friend

Sea Anemone

Spotted Moray Eel

Burrfish

Queen Anglefish

French Angelfish in transition

Sea anemone