Wednesday, July 4, 2012.
I think we were all on Bonaire time today. We all had breakfast this morning and then decided what the plan was for diving. We decided we would head back down south and dive White Slave and then Invisibles. We got to the White Slave dive site and there was no one there. We thought it would be a good day to try diving this site as it can have some pretty good current and today didn’t seem to be as windy as other days, thus we thought it might make it an easier entry with less wave action.
There was not much current when we got in and we swam out a ways before we dropped down. Right after we started going down I looked beneath me and there was a spotted eagle ray feeding in the sand. Right after everyone had seen him he quickly swam off. I did not get any video and Eric didn’t get any pictures either. We had a nice dive but towards the latter part of the dive the current started ripping. It was all we could do to swim and stay in place, so we headed back for the shore. Unfortunately, we had to fight the current all the way back in to shore. We definitely all burned some calories on this dive.
By the time we got to Invisibles we still had about a half hour left to complete our surface interval before we could get in the water again, so we watched all the other divers coming and going. When we had completed our hour surface interval we gathered all our gear and jumped in the water. There was much less current at this site, thankfully. There were a lot of fish at this dive site and it was a very nice dive.
We all had a good laugh and Jody put on quite a show for everyone when she went to get out of the water. She had all her gear on and fell down and could not get up and was being washed around like a beached whale--I didn’t laugh quite as hard about this as everywhere else as I have been in this situation before. After we hoisted Jody out of the water we all got out and loaded up the car.
By the time we completed these two dives it was definitely lunch time, so we headed back to the hotel to drop off all our gear and get cleaned up a bit to head out and find some lunch. Jody was craving a burger, so we decided to go back to El Mundo since they have just about everything on the menu and their food is really good. So we drove downtown and had lunch at El Mundo and then after lunch we stopped by the dive shop and picked up four new tanks so we could do a dive off the pier at the hotel when we got back.
At about 4 p.m. we headed downstairs to dive off the pier here at the hotel. I decided to get some over-under shots of Jody, Tim, and Eric doing a giant stride off the hotel pier into the water. Then after some above water picture taking we got ready to drop down. Tim stuck his head under the water and looked down and spotted a giant ray. We all threw our heads into the water to see a GIANT spotted eagle ray who had obviously spotted us too and was taking off in a hurry. Of course Eric and I attempted to chase it down to get some pictures or video--which was a losing proposition.
We watched the ray swim off into the blue and continued on with our dive. It was a nice dive but we did not see anything else super spectacular.
We finished our dive and decided it was time to hunt down dinner. Tim had not been to Pasa Bon Pizza yet as we went the day before he got here, so we decided to go back there again. Their food is so good. We stuffed ourselves and then headed back to the hotel with leftovers for tomorrow. We decided we were going to get up early tomorrow morning so everyone pretty much headed off to bed as soon as we got back to the hotel.
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