Morning entry!

....and his(her) boat!

...and finally...

Morning all. Some fish soup.

Purple oceans majesty! Good morning, cammers - looks like a beautiful day:

It's certainly better than this white stuff I have. Only two more days and I'll be there!!!

Boat on the scene.

Tall ship alert

I hope you will be able to see the three-mast wooden sailing ship "Old AmsterdaM" that should be sailing into cam view from the south. Quite impressive.

Freediver (or one very ugly seal).

morning all, looks like a nice day!!!!
is this a diver or a snorkler, or a fish???

And here are the SCUBA divers on their way back to the boat.

now this is something I recognise!!!!!!

sorry for the triple guys....

A triple! C'mon, we can do better than that! :-)

CYa!

ok lets go for a quad!!!!!
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oops!!!!

Okay, lets do it!

Freddie, my fingers are a little slow today (heh heh). How have you been?

been good so far today... doesn't mean i will be good all day though :-)

too bad the three masted schooner didn't come closer... it might have been and award winning photo!!!!!

Freddie -- Haven't been on the site in several months. Can you remind me of the photo posting "code"... I'll put up the only glimpse of it that appeared. It's not award winning... but even at a distance you can get an impression of the size. Thanks

Here is the only view of the schooner that appeared... as it sailed off toward Klein Bonaire and out of cam view.

Going for a dupe here:



Hi Bonaire Talkers (that's US!) and Katie - Darlene

gate visitors

Tom try this \ followed by the word 'image' then bracket{ the saved number of your picture and then anotherbracket} I can't show you because it comes up your image here when I try to post it go down to formatting if you still have a problem

i guess you did it faster than i could type..

Sorry. Couldn't catch the divers for even a triple. Saw them coming on SouthCam, and going on NorthCam, but was involved in work for the one capture that they appeared in on ReefCam. I think we need to start lobbying the Bonaire dive operators to constantly remind the divers they take out that posing for the camera for our entertainment is much more important than just swimming around looking at fish and coral.

Tom-

The instructions for picture posting are at the bonairetalk.com home page.

Good Morning Everyone! I love seeing visitors and divers. I can't wait to wave to everyone myself. 35 days to go

More gate action that Rusty will probably post, too.

Wow - the thrill of meeting THE Jake - the ONLY Jake:

There somebody at the doot.

great picture Tom... Morning Rusty...
John I think you may have a fine idea there..
gracious host on scene

9:56 AM. Good time to settle into a coffee break and chat a bit at the gate.

Jake must be telling a very funny story!!!!!

and it must have been about that fellow!!!!

Maybe it wasn't So funny!!!!!!!

Wow... busy morning. It's only 8:00am here and the morning thread is already pretty substantial.
Good morning everybody.

Is this the three masted schooner:



I saved it for the bird flying by...

Thanks Freddie and others for photo posting advice... and Sandy by e-mail.

Note Jake is shaking hands with his bad wing (9:54 photo). Recovery from big shoulder surgery is coming right along. Soon he'll be diving again!!

Hi Michael, do you think Jake will bring out Coffee and Cake for these people??

Yes, Rusty... that's it on the horizon, left of center.

Rusty do think that the Tom on the sign is the infamous Tom of Tom and Corrine??

Oooh - the plot thickens! There can only be one Tom, right? There's only one Jake. Seems fair to me. Wait til Darlene finds out.

What's this??

Freddie -- I'm going out on a limb and saying "porcupine puffer fish", due to the very non-hydrodynamic body shape and small pec fins.

Tom have you finished your divemaster stuff yet??

Can't really see it on the cam... just barely on North Cam... but the schooner is coming around and sailing right at Jake and Linda's. Hope it will provide a better view this time... in a few more minutes.

Have you got a better monitor than mine or are you indeed in Paradise???

oops silly me I should have read your Bio a little closer!!!

Tom's got a very nice view from the "hill" here on Bonaire :-)

The visitors were BTer Darlene Ellis, hubby Tom, and Robbie Robechaud (sp?) and his wife Tova.

Apprently the part where Grendel hugged Darlene and gave her doggie kisses didn't get captured.

Jake

Freddie -- Here's a picture of my "monitor".


Those people on the sailing ship are trying to make me look bad... sailing back and forth on the horizon out of web cam view. No, really... they are!!

I'll let you know when it looks like they're coming back a bit closer.

I couldn't imagine a more beautiful place for a monitor to live...

Tom: its a parrot fish. I think it's Rusty's

Here's the Parrot's tail, I'm sure it's Rusty's

Parrot I mean ! Sorry Rusty

Kevin --

The 11:22 photo is a parrotfish for sure. Not so sure about the one Freddie posted above at 10:21. That's the one I was guessing about.

The masted ship Tom mentioned is the Clipper Stad Amsterdam. I found some links below so you can see what she looks like.

http://www.tallships21.com/feature/feature.html
http://www.stadamsterdam.nl/ (dutch)

Jake and I went on board last night for a preview of Dos Winkel's latest project - filming and photographing in Peru. Unfortunately we didn't leave the pier. Although it was really amazing to stand on deck and look up through all the rigging. The booklet I have shows 26 sails on 3 masts. The captain told Jake that there actually additional sails that can be raised to the sides of the ship to catch even more wind.

Another tidbit (from the captain) - the Clipper ships were designed for the tough sailing into the wind from Europe to the Americas.

The ship is only about 3 years old.

Hi Tom,

It looks to me like it has those telltale lips and, that little vertical stripe on the tail says to me 'parrot'. But with a fuzzy shot like this it could be puffer, but I think the eyes would be bigger. I need to refresh on my critter I.D.

Thanks for the tour Linda. I wonder if this was one of the tallships that sailed into New York Harbor for the millenium celebration. If it was I may have seen it go by our coastline here on Long Island, NY

Time to go on to Rusty's new thread people! this one is really LONG!!!!

tom, moving to bonaire and now just surfacing??? i am jealous. here in dana point we have a tall ship that is a resident. they take it on trips to catalina island, and there are a few more in the area harbors and they have a tall ship festival every fall in dana point...pirates and all...very fun. on our local one they have a program with the local school dist. when my stepdaughter was in 4rth grade they got to spend the night on it, had to learn the "lingo" of the old days and eat porrage, swab decks, suck on raw onions if they were bad! a great memory for her. we had to write her letters like it was back then, and then they passed them out to the kids like they would have back then...

Looks like a puffer to me, But the camera does play tricks.

Tom, your monitor is "much" better than mine.