Bonaire Day 6

July 7, 2011

We slept in a bit this morning and after we all got up I fixed us some omelets. Then we sat around and chatted a bit and planned out our day. Today would be our last full day of diving before flying home on Saturday morning. We had to first run down the road to Dive Friends to get fresh tanks. After we got some new tanks we headed down south with the intent of diving Tori's reef again since that was one of our favorite dives. However, once we got there, there were about 10 people just about to get in so we decided to go somewhere else less busy.

We decided to go back north just a short way to Alice In Wonderland. There was only one car there already and just two other people going in at the same time as us. It was a nice dive. Tim got to experience a double reef system here. He said he thought we were taking him out into the blue for a bit because after we left the first reef you could not see the second one until you got fairly close to it.

After that dive we ran our used tanks back to Dive Friends and got some fresh ones and then stopped by the hotel so Eric could change to the wide angle lens on his camera. Then we took off back south to hit the Hilma Hooker again. We all enjoyed that dive the first time, but Eric wanted to do it again as an afternoon dive. We lucked out and did not see any other divers on this dive. It was another great dive.

Then we made a third trip to Dive Friends to change out our used tanks again so we could do a third dive off the pier of the hotel and still have three fresh tanks for in the morning. So when we got back to the hotel we then went down to the pier and Tim and I attempted to be scuba models for Eric whilst he attempted to get an over-under shot of us swimming underwater and the hotel and pier above water. He was not having much luck so we finally gave up and Eric ran back up to the room to change from his wide angle lens to the macro lens.

Once Eric made it back to the pier we all dropped down in the hunt for macro life (flamingo tongues, arrow crabs, cleaner shrimp, blennies, etc.). Eric did get some good flamingo tongue shots and we also saw a juvenile spotted drum and a huge puffer fish.

After our pier dive it was definitely time to get cleaned up and head out to find some dinner. We decided pizza sounded good so we headed for Pasa Bon Pizza (which we had stopped at once before but it was the day they happened to be closed). Unfortunately, this time they were open but they were full up so we decided to go somewhere else instead. We headed down the road a short way to Rum Runners bar and restaurant at Captain Don's Habitat.

The waitress that greeted us happened to be our waitress from 2009 at El Mundo when we were here with Eric's parents. She got us a prime table right by the water and Eric and I ordered some pasta dishes and Tim ordered a pizza. The pasta dishes were both awesome. Unfortunately, we all ate too much and had no room for dessert.

We made our way back to the hotel and watched most of my video from the day and checked out some of the photos from the day and then headed to bed.