MOVIES! MOVIES! MOVIES!



Tried to find something wet and wild to do last night in the privacy of my own home! Well, besides sharing a shower! LOL

I was looking thru the videos we have - looking for something with good H2O scenes. Didn't even matter if it was diving/swimming/wet pets... just had to fulfill that primal urge to get back into the primordial soup!

If you haven't seen Fantasia 2000 - there is an amazing sequence with humpback whales - swimming and *flying* thru crystal waters and the aurora borealis!

You all must have faves that you see over and over?!

I have a DVD of the IMAX movie "Dolphins". They have some incredible footage of dolphins feeding on a bait ball. They also have a segment showing how they filmed the 70mm footage. When I'm needing some blue water I pop that into the DVD player and drift away.

for a little relief check out this web cam

http://www.camvista.com/england/london/sharks.php3

I guess I could post some not Bonaire but tropical pictures. Here's how they feed the birds in Bora Bora.



When I get home to night, I'll get the film out of the UW 35mm camera and send them off to be developed, there sould be some good shots of a wreck off South Carolina.

These were interesting shots - saw them everywhere last year:

Oh yeah, how about these of a shark freenzy.







One difference I was in the water with them.

Uh Cecil - one question - why? Did you KNOW they were going to be there or didja cut yourself shaving? Where was this?

Let's try to keep it on-island. Here are some from Bonaire waters taken October 2001. (I hope they are not too big)

Peacock Flounder

Arrow Crab

Coronet Fish (about 5 ft.)

dinner ?!?

Dinner - take 2

Stopight Parrot

seahorse (fuzzy)

Spotted Drum

Trumpetfish

That's all folks...
Hope you enjoy the pics. Hope I didn't go overboard.
We will be back on Bonaire March 6 - 13, so keep your browsers open.

Cecil - the most dangerous sharks are these:

Rusty, all to true, they've taken every ounce of flesh I've ever produced.

Only kidding but to good to pass up.

John, great pictures, I think I hate you. How much room you got in your luggage?

Sorry Rusty, I never answered your question about the sharks. It was Bora Bora and the sharks were being feed by the Tahitians. The tourists were instructed to stay behind a rope, the sharks were instructed to stay on the other side of the rope. Eating of tourists is very bad for business.

Rusty (and others),

Don't take this the wrong way, but unless you have the right to reproduce these images, please don't post them, as it may violate someone else's copyright to have them posted here. And, if we (the operators of BonaireTalk) knowingly permit copyrighted information to be posted here without the rightful owner(s) having given permission, we could be sued, and that could be the end of BonaireTalk (since it has no legal budget to fight such suits). I'm sure you don't want that to happen - we certainly don't.

This applies to the Fantasia picture, the shark photos, and probably the above hammerhead/woman graphic.

For the items above that you've already posted, please provide detailed owner information and links to where you got the material from, and perhaps we can then argue that those postings were valid under the Fair Use Doctrine of Copyright Law (but that should be the end of it).

Thanks for understanding,

Jake

All mine are mine. (Sealife Reefmaster with and without macro lens).

John & Sue,

I had guessed that, just as Cecil has taken credit for his.

It could well be that the latest post from Rusty is one she did to, as she seems to be quite a good graphics artist, in which case it would be fine for her to post her own work.

Also, in case someone's concerned about the posting of images from the Bonaire WebCams site here, that is permitted specifically here on BonaireTalk without attribution (but nowhere else without attribution). See the last sentence of the FAQ item at http://www.bonairewebcams.com/FAQ.php#FAQ_CaptureImageCanI for details.

Jake

Hi Jake,

There's no provenance on any of the three pix. I probably saved them from webshots or email attachments over the last few years. The internet/fair use/public domain issue is so murky - I'll do my best to err on the side of caution from now on.

~Rusty

Thanks Rusty :-)

Jake

Ok, on a "lighter side" here is my punkie with her cone...she actually LIKED it, and wore it faithfully the entire 12 days! Even played with the other dogs (although she was at a disadvantage as she couldn't bite them back cause of her "situation!") I could only think of poor grendel and blijke ripping the straps and chewing it up!

Oh Cynde - she looks like she was trying to swipe seed out of the birdfeeder and got caught in the squirrel baffle! What a little stoic she is.

she is the one that has vision problems, and i think she liked it so much because it narrowed her peripherial field down and helped her focus...it was pretty funny to watch her bang into stuff!

This is pretty cool!

here are 2 more...

I like the American Flag!

Buh-bye!

I think that's a canadian flag. Looks like a maple leaf

And again:

Cynde, what an absolutely adorable doggie.. wish we could have one! S

JAKE: so glad to hear the Anony option has been "Xterminated" thank you.. your friend forever.. Sarah

Here's one of those perfect Bonaire sunsets:

cindy thanks for the correction...just saw the red and white...duh...and Jake i'm with you on the no anony posts! Good idea

Here's my contribution to ReefCam Withdrawal (we may be back up and running by Monday, incidentally - keep your fingers crossed!).

I knew I'd lost my shower cap somewhere, Jake. (What is that little softie?)

Jake,

Nice photo...what is it called? I saw one for the first time on my last trip.

rusty, if it were pink it could be a bootie

I meant bootie for your FOOT! I really wish we could go back and edit our posts once in a while...surely don't want to "offend" anyone

Since Jake is probably busying helping with dinner, I will answer for him. That ruffly thing is called a lettuce slug. That is a beautiful shot of one.

OOPS, forgot about time diff. My tummy is hollering at me to go home and fill it up since is feeding time on the left coast. Jake is probably helping to clean up after the day's mischief from the dogs and kiddys. Either that or he is sitting down with a warm wife in his lap and a cold beer in his hand.

Linnea,

Right you are - it's a Lettuce Leaf Slug!

And yes, I was busy with dinner, kids (Bas has a small fever :-( ) and making a rum-laden banana frothy drink for Linda after her tough day (and drinking some myself of course), while watching A Fish Called Wanda :-)

Jake

Cecil? Why did the Tahitians make you stay behind ropes because of nurse sharks? They are NOT interested in us as food, and can be flipped over in your arm and put to sleep

Oops, took a better look....black tipped reef sharks?

Emily, we did two shark feeding dives and a shark feeding snorkle. The pictures are from the snorkle trip, I didn't have a real UW camera at the time and I was using a disposable UW camera (only good to 15'). On the dives along with many many black tipped sharks, we saw a 9' Lemon shark, both dives, one of which was preganant. The full story is on my home web page.