Bonaire July 2012 Day 8

Friday, July 6, 2012

We all got up about 7 a.m. this morning and lounged around for a while. Today was Tim’s last full day on the island and his non-dive day so I drove him down to the Plaza Hotel to rent a scooter for the day. After he picked up his scooter he came back to the hotel to see where we were headed for the day. We decided we would do our first two dives down south.

First we headed for The Rock since we liked this dive site and it had a very easy beach entry. Tim decided he was going to scoot around the island and he might meet up with us at one of our dive sites. We dove The Rock and had a nice dive but did not see anything too interesting. Jody had a real work-out during this dive though. A four pound weight fell out of her pocket when she was putting on her BCD and none of us knew about it. She could not figure out why she was having such a hard time staying down during the dive, especially toward the end. I ended up giving her a two pound weight out of my weight belt and then she was okay.

As we popped our heads up at the end of the dive there was Tim waiting for us. He helped us load all our gear and then followed us to the next dive site, Bachelor beach. He saw us off for our dive. We were on a mission to find the tiny blenny that we had seen the other day. We actually did find the same blenny and Eric ended up finding a couple more too. I also saw two scorpionfish. Jody spotted a juvenile trunkfish and also a really large crab who was hiding in a hole.

We completed our dive and packed up the car and by this time Tim showed up on his scooter. Jody decided to ride back to the hotel with Tim on the scooter. So Eric and I followed them back to the hotel. Those of us who had been diving got cleaned up and then we all went to the dive shop to get some tanks so Jody, Eric, and I could do a morning dive tomorrow. Tomorrow morning will be our last dive of the trip.

Tim had the idea for all of us to do lunch over at Lac Bay. So Tim joined us in the car and we headed across the island to Lac Bay. This is the large bay where they do all the wind surfing. They have a very nice beach cafe there where you can sit and watch the wind surfers. Since it was rather late in the day and we had not had anything substantial to eat yet today we decided to make this our main meal of the day. We all had panninis and we had a couple orders of fries and a couple orders of tortilla chip nachos. Everyone else had their beers and I had a mango smoothie and a pina colada smoothie and boy were they good (much better than beer in my opinion).

After our meal we wandered around on the beach for a bit and we looked into what it would cost to rent sailboards and take lessons (Jody thought she might be interesting in trying it). After that we headed back to the hotel to drop Tim off so he could return his scooter. Jody decided she wanted to ride with Tim to return the scooter, so we let them get about a 15 minute head start since the scooter only went about 30 mph at full throttle.

We picked them up at the Plaza Hotel after they gassed up and dropped off the scooter. Then we all ran to the grocery store to get some more beer and sodas and most importantly some chocolate covered ice cream bars.

We ran our ice cream bars back to the hotel and put everything in the freezer. Then we watched a couple episodes of Big Bang Theory and played some Uno (I creamed everyone again). We all headed off to bed then since we had to get up early to take Tim to the airport tomorrow morning.