I took all of these last week while we where in Bonaire, some on the wall below the web cam...so here is something to hold us over I hope

a few more tonight and if you all want more tomorrow

mooie fotos als ik dat zie verlang ik weer naar het duiken gr mark

They are some of the most amazing photos i have seen...beautiful...wow it certainly takes your breathe away....ahhhhh i want to experience that for real.....
thank you for sharing your photos with us ALL

Steve and LeeAnn - WOW! I can't believe this all just down the wall! The soft corals and all the fish - filefish, cowfish, flounders, angels, damsels, drums, goatfish, eels, tangs and surgeons! Superb - what an experience you had! more, please... LOL

Copule of those some of these were dives other than the small wall. Words do not do.

this is it for now...have to scan more in

Steve, Thanks for taking the time to scan in all the beautiful pictures for us to enjoy!!!!

I'm sharing this thread with my camming buddies - I made the butterflies my wallaper - but it was a toss-up btwn that one and Picasso! Thank you!!

Steve, great pictures...felt like I was back there myself what camera did you use for these?

Great pictures Steve. Can't wait to see some more!

Steve: Wonderful photos! Makes me feel as tho I am right there underwater with all of the beautiful sea creatures. Thanks ever so much for taking the time to post them for all to see and enjoy. Just wonderful! Carole

You are all welcome. I had a blast seeing them again. I was very happy with how well they turned out. As I get time I will add some more. If the cam comes back on line soon I will put them in the trip report.
Sea and Sea MX10, with standard and Micro Lens, Kodak 400 Gold and the special processing for u/w pic.s. And it was the first time I have used the camera. I only carried it on 7 of my 27 dives. Now that I see it does so well in spite of me, I will prob carry it on every dive, whether I shoot a whole roll of flim or not

Great pictures steve. It makes some good that i can not go there.

Hi Steve,
Thank you for the great pictures I love my
MX10 UW camera. Lea

Awesome pictures, Steve!!! Good to know what camera you used, that is the kind I would like to get. You did an excellent job your first time out, never leave your camera at home again. I look forward to seeing the rest, Mary Lou

Steve.

Really enjoyed your pictures. Am a new diver and
am headed to Bon at the end of March for the
first time. Been learning some of the abc's of
fish id using your pictures and Humann's Reef
fish book.

Question : the 4th picture - fish 'standing' on
its head - the one before what I take to be a scrawled cowfish, do you know what it is, the bars/banding is what I am having trouble with.

Thanks in advance. Lydia

lydia...looks like a doctor fish to me...get ready to fall in love with bonaire!

Lydia, welcome to the board! Linda Richter mentioned in another thread a long time ago that doctor/surgeon fish change coloring in the evening, so the fish above may be wearing his jammies. I am not certain that the Humann books show pictures of fishy P.J.s. Anybody else remember that discussion?

Lydia,

Cynde is right. It is a Doctorfish - they go through various phases, but they always have body bars, 10 to 12 of them, usually faint, but sometimes they darken. Most of the species of fish here on Bonaire can and do change some aspect of their appearance - color, texture, highlights - during the course of a day to react to certain stimuli (hunting, being hunted, twilight, dawn, etc.)

Jake

Lydia I agree with Cynde. It is a Doctorfish, a member of the Surgeonfish group. Most of the ones we saw were the darker deep blue. I think is in between the dark and very light phase. Pages 34 and 35 of Reef Fish ID 2nd Edition.
I believe the one before is a Blue Tang. Similar.
The one after is a Honeycomb cowfish. I saw many more of the Honeycomb than the scrawled.
I have begin to run out of room on my log pages to list all the fish we saw.
LeeAnn was very sweet to give me the camera for Christmas and even sweeter to let me go on so many dives. And yes next trip I will take the camera every dive and begin a supp to my written log.
The eel in the wall, No. 11 on the second set is on the wall below the web cam. Along with the French Angelfish just before it.

Hello Jake, question of the day. I know this not a good picture but, is this a Barred Hamlet. Saw a blue (Indigo) version of this guy also. But the book says rare in the carib.

steve

And for you ID folks. There is more than meets the eye. See if you can find the real target of this photo.

Anonymous' quip: "Is it the out-of-focus rubber chicken?" [I'm just transcribing for him. (See it?)]

Steve, terrific photos. Very enjoyable.

BTW, I saw Dara! I will post a reply picture in a while.

Steve,

Yep. That looks like the butt end of a barred hamlet to me. Here are a couple from my slide collection - note that they look a little different, but are still both barred hamlets.

And jake wins the prize. Puffer hiding in the middle. He moved just enough as I took the picture to really hide.


steve