Ahhhhh! Good Morning everyone. 11 Days and counting.
Here's a nice Blue Head to start the day.

Hi Kevin... I'm in Boca (vacation for a week) -- foggy! this AM. happy to be here, but envy your count down :-)

Hi Denise... It's been this way all week. We're having a very mild Winter. I was in Delray yesterday afternoon, beautiful day, wished I was diving, but I can wait.
Surf's Up

When in Bonaire, if you dive the salt pier enjoy a moment for me - it is one of my very favorite dives there.

I plan on hitting every beach site I can. We have a truck for our stay and the Salt Pier is on the list. I understand you need permission if there are any ships there. I promise to think of you and all my fellow BWCers

Well, It's off to work... yard work that is. My beter half says "time to make the donuts"
Have a great day Denise... and all my fellow camers. I'll check back later. Hopefully divers will show up.

K

Here's a bit of a fish stick to start my day! Good morning, (brrrrrr here), Cammers!

Hi Kevin,

I think you need permission for this dive regardless of a ship being there. With a ship at the pier I would not dive there. However I never got permission to dive there... no ships in sight..should be OK for the next hour. Besides I never actually went in at salt pier but sofar always at the south buoy and drift to the buoy at the north end.

Bas - was that you in the mini? Why don't you walk the four spotty dogs down to the cam this morning? We need a thrill! LOL

Here's a group on cam

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Sorry - funny things happening here - when I click on Street Cam for the big pic - I get a pixelated South Beach Cam shot!

Morning Rusty, I noticed the same thing.

A couple more shots - in case everyone else is having breakfast...

Missed the previous one....


And them leaving


Cheers,
Alan

ps - same issue with the street cam as mentioned abouve.

pss - Go Patriots!

Sorry Rusty, I should of known you'd be on it.

It got me all shook up, Cindy. LOL Are you feeling back to normal (whatever that is - LOL) now?

Alan - welcome to the Great Minds Think Alike Club - 2x! Once for the pix and once for the PATS! There is MUCH excitement in this neighborhood - go Drew!

Here's a blowup of the street cam shot of the visitors...

Hey Rusty - love the new graphics. I need to send the frog one to my mom - the frog fanatic.

will be a few more weeks before I'm "normal", but I'm doing pretty darn good.

I agree on the Pats, heaven knows the Bucs will never be there.

Morning All. Kevin and Rusty I notice that when you use the LARGE link on the bottom of the street cam it doesn't go to the beach cam, but by now I guess you figured that out... Old habits die hard!!!!
Happy Super Bowl Sunday to all

Fixed that large StreetCam problem (although, hint hint, as a member, even Basic, you would have a menu under each live image prompting for large, medium, and small sizes - those work too :-) )

Jake

Jake - I don't really get the difference btwn me now and me as a Basic member.

Thanks for the fix.

Fish tail:

hi Kevin, and ofcourse all other bwcammers.
On thursdays Kevin, there will be a dive bus at the salt pier, if they are there they will have a permit for diving under the salt pier.
if they are not there or you wish to dive any other day then you can just ask your diveshop to check for you.And if that all fails you call me and then I will see what I can do for you.
He heck I might even go with you to enjoy the dive.call me when your on island, we make a few shoredives together.717-4554

Rusty,

A few differences in Basic Member vs. non-member. As a Basic member:

- You get a menu of size options under each live or archive image - this eliminates the occasional problem of clicking on the image itself only to find that the enlargement you're looking for went away because the images changed after the initial smaller viewing but before you clicked to get the larger images.

- You get access to the last hour's worth of image archives so you can catch up on anything you may have missed.

- It gets rid of the "Become a Member" prompts at the top and bottom of every page.

Still free, but requires registration and that you log in.

Try it out and let me know what you think.

Jake

mornin all...jake, i will join the yearly thing as soon as i get my email straightened out...our isp server filed chap 11, so our cable company has had to take total control...can't get my mail to work...anyhoooooo....gotta go clean to get ready for our super superbowl bash we be havin' today...

Kevin...do a "dive at 5" ANYWHERE for me please! awesome sight seeing the "changing of the guards!"

Jake:

The archive is wicked nice!

I love the SMALL window size - great for leaving some desktop to WORK on while we keep an eye on the cams - LOL. Keeps stealing other browser windows to open, tho.

Is there a WORKS window with four small images in the *works*?

A beautiful sailboat on the North Cam:

What a nice pic to wake up too....and it's only 6.30am here in NZ, it would be real nice to be cruising the water today by the looks :-))

Rusty,

Try this page: http://my.bonairewebcams.com/BonaireWebCams.php

We have plans for customizable view pages (you'd specify the refresh time if you want slower than every 2 minutes, also size and relative position of images on the page), and gallery pages (create a gallery of your favorite WebCam images). However, not sure when we'll get to those - maybe summer time.

Jake

Oh - I forgot to include another disclaimer - those features we're hoping to develop later this year would be for paying members only (that's probably obvious, but just in case... :-) )

Jake

Thanks, Jake - but you need to leave it nearly as large as the WORKS page since the whole page refreshes not just the cams. If I squish the window with the scroll bars to a small window showing only the four small cam pix - they disappear when it refreshes. Don't you just hate beta-testers? LOL (I can wait for the summer options.)

When I hit Small or Large - it steals my Bonaire Talk window - unless I rt-clk and choose open in a new window.

couldn't really tell what the little yellow thing is. Any ideas?

A waterlily?

kinda looks like a boogy board (or whatever, you can tell I'm not very water literate).

I think there's a squid in the background

signed up for the Gold this morning. Archive feature is worth it. Can't wait for a closeup fish sighting so I can send a postcard.

Cindy - you have good eyes!! Looks like a squid to me.

Hi everyone, I'm ack briefly from the housework.
Marc... I'll get with you once we arrive. My wife is doing limited diving and i'll need a buddy for some of the time. We arrive 2/14 and are there until 2/25. I'm sure we'll hook up
Are you attending the Turducken at Jakes? If so I'll meet you there.
Gotta go again, I'll check back in a few.

K

finally - a diver. Hi Kevin, how's the wife feeling these days?

morphed into a fish

Hey Kevin - Ack is how most of us feel about housework!

Another diver edgie:

my sentiments exactly...ack...here is a visitor

I just sent this one to myself as a postcard. It looks great.

Should we fire up a new thread soon?

Here's Cindy's parrot from the large pic:

Hi Cynde, great minds club.
here's the link to the postcard if anyone wants to see what they look like.
http://my.BonaireWebCams.com/ePostCard.php/uvVt9NqRQoHVSw.html

That's a really nice benefit, Cindy - it'll hook more people on the cams when they see the sunsets and the *moonfish*.

moonfish would make an interesting postcard. LOL

Rusty,

Ack on the refresh issues of the 4 small - that's why the custom page is in the plans.

Re: Window stealing. It would steal your BonaireTalk window only if you opened BonaireTalk in a window BWC opened as an auxilliary window (the browser thinks the BWC pages "own" that window).

Glad you guys like the ePostCards!

Jake

Jake, Aha! Window stealing - I could never figger out why Bonaire Talk would sometimes spawn a window and sometimes steal a window. Despite using The Works as my homepage - it only steals spawned windows. Gotcha! Congrats on a very smooth major upgrade to the site. Almost unheard of!

Thanks - there have been a few minor glitches which I've been dealing with as the weekend has progressed. The only major problem was that folks using Netscape Navigator couldn't register or use most of the forms. Got that one licked this morning :-)

Jake

Glad I waited to register. I'm a diehard Netscape user.