Today we got up about 6:30 AM so we could have breakfast and get all our gear ready for our two-tank boat dive to Klein Bonaire. We got on the boat at Dive Friends at Port Bonaire and headed north to pick up two other groups of divers. Then we headed out to Klein Bonaire. The first dive was at Joanne's sunchi. Right after we got in the water a large eagle ray glided past above us. Unfortunately, it was too far away to get any good video or pictures. This dive we stayed with the group as they said there was a spot they usually saw a seahorse. We did get to see the seahorse, but it was in a very difficult spot for Eric to get any good pictures.
The second dive was at Leonora's reef. We decided to go off on our own on this dive. This was a much shallower dive for everyone and we too stayed pretty shallow and just poked around looking for small critters to photograph. We did not find anything too out of the ordinary. We did see a large approximately 4 foot long green moray and several other smaller spotted morays.
After the two dives everyone got dropped back off at their respective docks and we headed back to our hotel. We cleaned up a little and then headed downtown to get lunch. We decided to try Papagayo's restaurant which we had wanted to try last time we were in Bonaire, but at that time they were on holiday and were closed. I tried the chicken salad and Eric had nachos. I still think “Mandy's Place” has the best chicken salad I have ever had.
After lunch we decided to wander around downtown a little bit to get some exercise on land. Eric ended up buying a T-shirt and hat. I did not manage to find anything yet, but we will probably spend Friday shopping and sightseeing and doing some land photography since we won't be able to dive much before our flight early Saturday morning.
After our lunch-time excursion we headed back to the hotel and got our stuff ready to head out for a late evening dive off the pier. Since there were too many creepy critters around at night we decided it might be better to try a dive just before dark when we did not need our flashlights yet. This dive proved quite rewarding. Eric only took about 20 photos on this dive, but almost all of them came out good. A big bonus was we did not have to deal with all the creepy critters swarming our lights.
After our dive we headed back to our room and had some of our leftovers from Cactus Blue. Tomorrow I think we will sleep in and then maybe head down to the north end of the island again. We are thinking about doing Oil Slick Leap again as there was a lot of good stuff to photograph in the shallows there.
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