Bonaire Day 4

July 5, 2011

We got up and had some breakfast and then set out to do what Tim had been looking forward to doing for the last month or more--the Hilma Hooker (a wreck). It is a very busy dive site but the dive was great and people were spaced out enough around the boat that we really did not see too many other people. The visibility was fairly good and I got some good video of Tim and Eric. Tim really enjoyed the dive and we will probably do it again before we leave. On the way back in we saw several cleaning stations, one of which had a big grouper and an angelfish being cleaned. We also saw a scorpionfish on the way back in too.

We managed to dredge ourselves out of the surf and make it back to the car to load everything in and head for Dive Friends to get new tanks for this afternoon's dives. After we got our new tanks we decided to go ahead and do another dive before we went back to the hotel for lunch/snack etc. So we headed to Bachelor beach, which is just the other side of Bellafonte. We had never dove there before so we thought we would give it a try. It actually has probably one of the easier entries. It also has probably one of the nicest beaches we have seen on Bonaire (Bonaire has very few sand beaches).

After our dive there we went back to the hotel and decided just to have a little snack instead of going out to look for lunch. Of course, after that we all got a little lazy. Eric and Tim then decided to head out off the pier of the hotel to do Tim's navigation dive--another one of his dives for his Advanced Scuba Diver certification. I decided to be lazy and stay in the room for this one and type up this blog instead.

After their dive (Tim managed to navigate them back to the pier safely), they came back up to the room and got cleaned up so we could go find some dinner. We drove downtown and ended up dining at La Barca. It was an open air restaurant right on the water. The food was great. We had fresh bread, caesar salad, margarita pizza and a slice of chocolate cake for dessert.

After dinner we drove back to the hotel and pretty much headed straight to bed as we wanted to get an earlier start tomorrow.