Bonaire Day 3

July 4, 2011

After we got up and I fixed the three of us some omlets for breakfast we went down to the hotel pier to do our first dive. This dive was Tim's first deep dive, which was one of his dives for his Advanced level scuba certification. Because this was a training dive Eric did not take his camera, but I followed along with the video camera. Tim did great and we actually saw our first squid and I got some awesome video of the squid.

So then we came back up to the room and had a little snack before we headed north to dive at Oil Slick Leap. We had a good dive there, but we did not see anything too remarkable as far as sea life goes--just the usual critters.

We packed up the car and headed back toward town. Before we got into town we stopped at the ice a cream shop and Tim treated us all to some really good ice cream. The we went downtown to stop into the dive shop there to get Tim a scuba hood so he can protect his head from burning and me some fins that we have been unable to find or purchase anywhere in the states.

Then we made our way back to the hotel and got cleaned up and had some dinner (leftovers from Casablanca) before we went down to start our night dive at around 7 pm. This was Tim's first night dive (there have been a lot of firsts for Tim on this trip). He had a blast. He got to see how the tarpon follow you and use your light to find their next meal. We saw a couple lion fish hunting, a bunch of eels, a lobster, several different types of crabs. We also saw the octopus that lives in a hole by the hotel pier, but he was still in his hole.

After our dive we rinsed all our gear and headed back up to the room. We all got cleaned up and I made some popcorn and we watched my video from the night dive, looked at some of the pictures Tim had taken, Eric's pictures, and then Tim showed us his starring role in one of the Austin Powers movies (which we happened to have with us on our iPad). Then it was bedtime.