By Cyn Loo Hoo (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #14924) on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 1:20 pm: |
The rest of the report:
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By Cyn Loo Hoo (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #14925) on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 1:51 pm: |
You can see some of the coral bleaching around this Queen Angel. We saw one on just about every dive I think. They are hard little boogers to capture though, once they know you see them...they split!
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By Cyn Loo Hoo (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #14926) on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 2:03 pm: |
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By Lisa Barclay (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #795) on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 2:12 pm: |
Cynde, I love the seahorse pics and the eel is a nice capture too. Glad you had such a great time.
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By Cyn Loo Hoo (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #14927) on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 2:35 pm: |
My pictures aren't as good as other folks, but I try!
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By Cyn Loo Hoo (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #14928) on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 2:48 pm: |
fooling around with color (or not color) LOL!
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By Kelly Baum (GDLW) (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3364) on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 3:00 pm: |
Cactus Flower, that seahorse looks GREAT in black and white, so does the Salt Pier !!
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By Cyn Loo Hoo (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #14933) on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 3:19 pm: |
a couple more
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By Kelly Baum (GDLW) (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3366) on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 3:29 pm: |
Simply breathtaking you little sauce-pot, you.
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By Cyn Loo Hoo (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #14934) on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 3:36 pm: |
Oh, I also saw a baby trunkfish for the first time...it was SO TINY...hard to get a picture of it too!
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By Mare (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1138) on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 4:16 pm: |
Hi Cynde,
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By Cyn Loo Hoo (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #14935) on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 4:59 pm: |
Mare, thanks for the clarification on the tiger tail cucumber...they were weird looking indeed. I thought the mouth end would have been the end stuck under the rock...learn sumthin' new every day!
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By Roy Wickham (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #241) on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 5:12 pm: |
Wow Cyn, hasn't the Rock Beauty got lovely lips, Great photo.
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By Cyn Loo Hoo (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #14936) on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 5:27 pm: |
Thanks Roy! Rock beauty's are another one hard to photgraph because they are gone as soon as they see you look at them! The seahorses were black and orange, the B&W did come out kind of cool!
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By pat murphy (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #270) on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 7:06 pm: |
the other, more common sea cucumber, is the donkey dung sea cucumber. but after seeing it and donkey dung, i have to say they don't resemble each other at all.
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By ...boom dee ay (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #736) on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 7:21 pm: |
Hey LooHoo!! The color salt pier pics look like lovely watercolors.... nice job!
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By Eileen BT Mommy x 2 (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #8749) on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 7:54 pm: |
Awesome Cynde!
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By Cyn Loo Hoo (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #14937) on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 8:10 pm: |
Pat...have to google donkey dung cucumber now...LOL!
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By Back to Jeanine, or is it Tribs? (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1234) on Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 8:54 pm: |
Wow! Did I say wow? Thanks for taking me back. BPD is getting real bad for me as we figured out we will probably not be able to return until 2007. More pictures please...they help!
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By Brian (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1259) on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 2:20 am: |
Cynde great report; doesn't a camera change your view of a dive. The fish following the Sharp tailed eel are looking out for tasty morsels (fish etc.) that the eel disturbs. The behaviour I find amazing is when a trumpet fish hides by swimming above another hunting fish and acting as a Dorsal fin. More pictures please.
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By Cyn Loo Hoo (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #14941) on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 11:00 am: |
Hi Brian, Jeannie thanks. Brian, Yes it does. And i really saw some different things by focusing on the corals and sponges this time
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By Kelly Baum (GDLW) (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3372) on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 11:30 am: |
I wonder if there is such a thing as an underwater laser pointer? That would be a great idea unless the laser would somehow disturb the fishies.
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By pat murphy (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #273) on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 5:13 pm: |
i think there is an underwater laser pointer. i seem to remember seeing one either in a shop or advertised in a magazine. could be useful. i was pointing out a scorpionfish to my wife who didn't understand what i was looking at...she got her hand to within about 6 inches of it before she saw it...kinda freaked her out.
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By pat murphy (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #274) on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 5:16 pm: |
cyn, one of our neighbors on bonaire used to talk about "sex on the reef" every afternoon at margate bay...you wouldn't believe the activity going on, right there in front of God and everybody...wow. i'm pretty sure she was talking about the fish activity but i could be wrong.
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By Cyn Loo Hoo (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #14955) on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 6:15 pm: |
Pat, what kind of "rattler" did you buy? At your LDS? Bas had something and I meant to ask what it was. It was like little tiny bells underwater...not as loud as tank bangers can be sometimes ;-)
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By Denise Kacavas (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1097) on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 6:57 pm: |
I have no idea if this is any good, but found it by Google search http://www.scuba.com/shop/product.asp?category=31&fromsearch=1&hashvalue=026625
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By Mare (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1142) on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 7:32 pm: |
Pat and Denise,
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By Cyn Loo Hoo (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #14956) on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 7:58 pm: |
Mare, Tom uses tongue signals...ask him about it...oh, and we tried using flashlight signals but it turned into an underwater light saber battle...
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By pat murphy (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #276) on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 8:49 pm: |
i bought the rattler at phototours in town. it cost about $27US. looks like a small aluminum or stainless steel tube with small ball bearings in it. just shake it underwater to get someone's attention. it is more expensive than the tank bangers but i plan on getting a few years out of it and i was going through at least two tank bangers a year.
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By Cyn Loo Hoo (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #14957) on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 8:58 pm: |
Pat...don't tell Mary I'm giggling...I was envisioning it happening in my mind (as I've done the same thing only never found what my buddy wanted me to see). they are pretty when the swim...
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By Steven (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #3) on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 10:20 pm: |
Great pictures. Any recommendations as to the best places for snorkelers to try to find seahorses? Thanks.
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By Mare (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1146) on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 10:37 pm: |
Steven, ask Renee and take one of her snorkel tours.
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By Your Babsness (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #10100) on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 11:06 pm: |
Oh my Cynde! So many cool pics and I know that these are only some of them! Keep on posting gal!
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By Brian (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1262) on Friday, October 28, 2005 - 2:05 am: |
Steve you will probably need a guide to find them. We saw at least 5 at Witches Hut last month they were around a depth of 20 feet.
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By Margarita Murphy (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1105) on Friday, October 28, 2005 - 7:04 am: |
Very interesting, beautiful pics. Love the seahorses. Great job and thanks for sharing.
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By Jamie Barber (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #141) on Friday, October 28, 2005 - 11:59 am: |
Kelly,
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By Kelly Baum (GDLW) (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3378) on Friday, October 28, 2005 - 12:07 pm: |
Okay, we are all worried about the poor fish's vision.. BUT WHAT IF they have BAD eyesight and the laser actually corrects their vision?? The marine version of LASIK??
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By Patrick T. (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #353) on Friday, October 28, 2005 - 12:27 pm: |
Kelly i'm glad you said that and not me.LOL ;-)
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By seb (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #2442) on Friday, October 28, 2005 - 11:24 pm: |
Oh geez, just whack your buddy on the butt to get their attention. If you can't reach their butt then you are TOO FAR AWAY.
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By Back to Jeanine, or is it Tribs? (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1242) on Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 8:50 am: |
Oh jeepers Jamie! I now know what my present toppers are going to be this year for my little niece and nephew. Their parents should just love me! Kelly and Patrick - shame on you. Lasik for fishes! LOL! Seb you would love diving with RJ. He swims right on top of you! Literally sometimes. I do prefer hand signals, but sometimes I just can't figure out how to say something, so the slate works. We also use the "stop dead in your tracks and use your entire body, with your arm fully extended, as your pointer." Eventually your buddy realizes they left you and returns to see why you are floating there like a trumpet fish. LOL!
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By Mare (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1148) on Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 9:30 am: |
Jamie, use the laser to make circles around the critter. Very Dali-esque. I had a postcard of Dali making art with a time-lapse camera and a glowing ember. Imagine yourself as Dali as you circle the critter with your laser (as if being underwater isn't cool enough!).
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By Cyn Loo Hoo (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #14971) on Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 9:56 am: |
Seb, sometimes you can scare your buddy if you smack them (or even GENTLY poke them in the ribs)...right Smack? (I will never get that image of your face out of my mind)...
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By Mare (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1150) on Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 11:18 am: |
Um, two different tones, high then low, repeat.
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By seb (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #2444) on Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 11:22 am: |
You're right, Cyn, I recently found out that I scare the heck out of Mare every time I grab her heinie underwater. Which would be a lot of scaring.
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By Back to Jeanine, or is it Tribs? (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1248) on Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 11:27 am: |
Ha! Nope! RJ is the nephew. Wes is the SO. We took a trial dive to tune-up RJ at Pearl Lake (not very pearly, more like mud lake) and RJ was right on top of my legs/back the entire time. He was terrified he would lose sight of me. If I even kicked my legs a little more than slightly, I hit him. Then in Bonaire, visibility 100 feet, he still was right on top of me, but this time just over my fins instead of being over my legs/back.
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By Mare (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1151) on Saturday, October 29, 2005 - 11:35 am: |
Here is a link to a tinny sounding European ambulance.
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