By Bill and Donna Goodwin (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #237) on Thursday, November 9, 2006 - 8:21 pm: |
Report on our 8th Trip to Dushi Bonaire, Oct 14-28
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By Meredith Lynch (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #167) on Thursday, November 9, 2006 - 10:07 pm: |
Nice report and photos! What camera are you using?
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By marge karalis (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #177) on Thursday, November 9, 2006 - 10:50 pm: |
Ditto that. What camera. Just fantastic pics.
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By bob (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1738) on Friday, November 10, 2006 - 7:40 am: |
nice pics;)
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By Bill and Donna Goodwin (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #238) on Friday, November 10, 2006 - 9:03 am: |
NOTE on the movies: Be sure to click on the movie, not the slideshow - otherwise you only get 3 seconds of each movie.
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By Bill and Donna Goodwin (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #239) on Friday, November 10, 2006 - 9:08 am: |
Taylor Made and Candyland are not marked with yellow rocks but some of the old guides tall where Taylor Made is and I believe Susan (Porter) said that they will be in the next edition of the Bonaire Shore Diving guide. They are both on the little turnout road (no more than tire tracks in the coral rubble) that starts opposite of the little lagoon where the BOPEC dirt road returns to the beach after taking you above the oil tanks. Watch out and don't get stuck in the coral rubble where it's steep - hasn't happened to us but it sure looks possible.
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By Bill and Donna Goodwin (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #240) on Friday, November 10, 2006 - 9:13 am: |
Thanks for the kind comments on the pictures ... Cameras: Sony DSC T1 and Sony DSC N1 - both are basically point and shoot cameras that we have souped up by using 2 gig cards (gives 32 minutes of reasonably hi-rez mpeg movies) and attaching (with a small section of ball-and-joint strobe arm connectors) a Underwater Kinetics Light Cannon with a diffuser (otherwise there's a big hot spot) for movies and a full-spectrum-restoring filter. The filters and cases are stock items also from Sony. We carry two extra fully charged batteries and extra chips when we hit the road in the ol' truck full of tanks...
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By Tom (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3714) on Friday, November 10, 2006 - 9:32 am: |
Bill and Donna, thanks for sharing your wonderful story, photos and movie files. Your photo http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q317/billanddonna/DSC06768c.jpg is beautiful.
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By Bill and Donna Goodwin (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #241) on Friday, November 10, 2006 - 10:30 am: |
Thanks, Tom ... That the picture came out well exposed and in focus was just dumb luck (like most of the good ones) - before I make prints I'll Photoshop out those specks in the sponge above the shrimp.
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By Bill and Donna Goodwin (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #242) on Friday, November 10, 2006 - 11:11 am: |
Okay - I've added another shrimp-in-a-tube and two shots of the Bas meeting. Note: the 4th, 5th and 6th items are MOVIES - click on each of them (not the "Slideshow") to view.
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By Nell Keene (BonaireTalker - Post #28) on Friday, November 10, 2006 - 3:32 pm: |
Fabulous! thanks so much. We are leaving in 30 days and hope we finally see a frog fish and seahorse
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By DARLENE ELLIS (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #2281) on Friday, November 10, 2006 - 5:13 pm: |
Great report and pictures!!!! So glad we had a chance to meet!
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By Tom (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3721) on Friday, November 10, 2006 - 5:19 pm: |
I like shrimps in tubes! Do you have anymore?
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By Babs (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #11288) on Friday, November 10, 2006 - 7:20 pm: |
FANTASTIC! Great report and the pictures and videos were awesome! Thank you for posting!
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By Nell Keene (BonaireTalker - Post #29) on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 3:19 pm: |
what kind of housing do you use for the cameras?
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By Bill and Donna Goodwin (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #244) on Monday, November 13, 2006 - 11:10 am: |
Hey Tom, that's it for the "shrimps in tubes." I had a lot but most had focus and lighting problems. This was the first time I've tried this endeavor - and it's harder than it looks. First you gotta find one of the dern critters that's cooperative, i.e., doesn't get the bejeesus scared out of him when a giant face looms over the sponge's excurrent aperture and immediately flee to the bowels of porifera. Then you need perfect weight trim and no current so you can hang head down without touching the sponge. Then you need to figure out how to light it - what's working best right now is aiming my light (UK Light Cannon with diffuser, mounted under the camera in my weird homemade set-up) at the bottom of the sponge to backlight the critter(s) - makes for a cool spacey image. Found some sponges with both a goby and a shrimp but things didn't work out photographically speaking - I'll try again next time. So far it seems the shrimp prefer those gorgeous, somewhat translucent, grayish sponges.
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By Bill and Donna Goodwin (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #245) on Monday, November 13, 2006 - 11:14 am: |
Nell - the housing are the stock housings sold by Sony for their DSC T1 and DSC N1 cameras. The light (used mostly for movies) is an unusual setup - UK Light Cannon with diffuser (to avoid the "hot spot") on a ball and socket joint attached to the bottom of the camera where you would otherwise attach a tripod. I removed the handle from the light because the ball-and-scoket connection makes a perfectly balanced handle between the camera and light, plus the handle interferes with getting close to some subjects. Also many shots use a color-correcting filter, also sold by Sony or available as the "magic filter" from a source at Digital Diver Network.
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By Nell Keene (BonaireTalker - Post #30) on Monday, November 13, 2006 - 3:40 pm: |
Thanks so much for the information.
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