Early morning greetings from Bonaire. I'm jet lagged and have come out of my room because I was disturbing my roommate with my flashlight trying to read in the dark. My bad.
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So I thought it would be a good time to report to anybody who is following this thread but was unable to make the trip.
Those divers who had travel woes due to unexpected flight delays have kept arrangements pretty fluid, but now things are settling down, chaos is losing its grip, and everybody has had their orientations and has hit the water with boat dives to lovely sites. We are all glad to be bonding as a big group, and I am personally happy to be getting to know so many great people. Neptuner gets busy every once in a while to lead a group cheer of "Bonaire Baby" in dining rooms, and all the non-SD resort guests just stare at us, LOL.
As for the diving, the water is cool for me, but not as shockingly COLD as it felt the first day. I attribute that to horrible travel fatigue and not sleeping properly for three consecutive nights en route. I guess I was pretty cranky too, so I am contrite and hope to make up for it.
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The dives have been very nice. For me, most of the marine life is unfamiliar, so I'm going nuts thinking everything is interesting while those who are used to these critters just swim on past them giving them no more than a glance (I hover and stare!). I pointed out a huge arrowhead crab to one of my dive buddies and he couldn't understand what I was all excited about. I'm having a great time IDing marine life!
The other good news I have to report is that we now have three newly certified SD Nitrox divers, and more to come as soon as they are ready to take the test! Our AOW students have also got a good start on their dives, having done the Nav dive yesterday in the late afternoon. We had to rush to try to finish before it the sky got dark, so underwater it was a bit dim for reading compasses, so we'll do it again this morning from the boat.
Some of us went out for the Larry's dive a couple days ago, but the sea conditions were causing quite a surge, so we just did one dive. We're going back out this afternoon. We've got our fingers crossed in hopes of an exceptional dive!
More later....
Edited by Quero, 12 May 2008 - 04:58 AM.