Good morning cammers. Here are some early morning ones.

Off to school maybe?


Please take me with you. Hmmphh! They left me here.

Freddie's on her way now. Soon she will be seeing this for real.

Yes, it looks like two hurricanes will arrive in Bonaire today, Freddie and Lili. The second does look like a miss to the North, the first should be a hit later today, look for the Green Hat.

Busy all day, but now I can sit back for 45mins.
Do you guys have a good satellite-picture featuring site ??

I really like to see myself where the hurricanes are coming from / going to ...

Reefcam seems a bit dirty ...

cecil...crack me up! yes, the hurricane with the green hat...or could it be the hurricane with the red hair?...

looks like picasso is showing us a little "bootaye"

Hi, all you BT'ers. Big group of yellow wrasses!

Wow, very big fishy day!

Found a couple more scanning the archives!

Oops, missed one...

By the by Cynde...I think that parrot has no name (cut certainly could use one) I think Picasso is the Spanish hog fish in the 9:24:04 (someone let me know if I'm wrong!)

Lili looms large near our favorite island

Barbarians..... No No I mean visitors at the gate

Olaf: for all your hurricane needs go to
www.nhc.noaa.gov

Give us a kiss Charlotte

kevin, how ya been???


divers...

Hi Everyone!
Home at last......the water seems cloudy today - maybe from the storm being so close?

hey carol, the surge has looked pretty strong, probably the reason...



this looks sureal...almost like bugs or aliens!




I wanna be on da boat

Hi Cynde,

Busy at work, but fine otherwise. I have been remiss in visiting and chatting. When I saw Lili getting close I became concerned so I popped in with a NOAA capture for everyone.
Diving's been few and far between. We went to Pennecamp back in July and my camera jammed on the first dive.. a big bummer.

These storm clouds are rolling in from the south, but are associated with Lili. I fear the weather is going to be a bit wet soon.

Here's the latest from NOAA
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Hi Cynde,

Busy at work, but fine otherwise. I have been remiss in visiting and chatting. When I saw Lili getting close I became concerned so I popped in with a NOAA capture for everyone.
Diving's been few and far between. We went to Pennecamp back in July and my camera jammed on the first dive.. a big bummer.

These storm clouds are rolling in from the south, but are associated with Lili. I fear the weather is going to be a bit wet soon.

Wow a double post!! never done that before
Here's the NOAA image

but it's a good one kevin! here is the boat speeding away...almost looks like one of the sand$ boats (wishful dreaming)

Hi everyone looks like a little bit of the storm is passing by Bonaire - looks so pretty.


He's standing guard late this afternoon.

We're planning to go back in May 03. I'm not sure I can wait that long.

You know, the reef cam looks like the octopus stole the red filter again.

Kevin,
I think it's cloudy due the storm. ?
Ida

splish splash!

Hi Ida,

If you look at the NOAA picture about 5 posts earlier you will see several things. Along the bottom is the northern coast of Venezuela. Along the top from left to right are Jamaica, Haiti/Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. Lili is smack dab in the middle. Just above the coast of Venezuela are three islands, Aruba Curacao, and beloved Bonaire. Boniare is about to be overrun by a big group of thunderstorms which is being sucked up into Lili. Yeah! it's Lili that's going to soak Bonaire.

I don't recall seeing a sergeant major on the reefcam before...

Yes it's raining on Bonaire!

carol...that would be "sarge" charlotte's boyfriend...haven't seen him in a while!
Jake just posted this link on another thread...good weather reporting for bonaire...

http://www.meteo.an/meteo2/

Hello everyone, Is anyone having difficulty with the webcam pics. I snapped this one, and now can't get any at all. (no matches found it tells me}

Raining in the Street. Hope it clears for Freddie's arrival.

Yes, the cams seem to be stuck at 17:12.

Here's one I snapped in July, and was told that it was a banded butterfly fish. It looks the same as Carol's 16.46 sergeant major. Annie B.

Annette,

Close but no (Cubano) cigar. Count the number of stripes. They are different. Body shape is a tad different as well.

Bob

Appears the Internet connection from Curacao to Bonaire is presently inoperative. This happens from time to time (some days it happens a lot).

All images are archived on Bonaire and will be uploaded when the link returns. (Except in the event of power outages on Bonaire, since the computers there still need electrons to operate).

Hopefully the link will return soon.

Dan

thanks dan, that is what i had figured...jake and linda get a reprieve from our constant staring at their lives!

Thanks Bob, When I looked at them together I could see the difference (I think). My one has less stripes that are wider apart. Is that correct. Not good at marine fishy id. Bet I don't remember it though. LOL Annie B.

Hi Cynde, Yes I agree. Some privacy for Linda and Jake. Annie B.

Almost forgot. Snapped this one earlier. Any suggestions as to what?

looks like a fish with a pink tu tu...

Just blew it up big. Daren't post it, looks positively rude. LOL Annie B.

Just tried to call Bonaire, and the phone circuit was quiet, then disconnected. Never rang. Will be interesting to learn if the fiber optic cable from Curacao to Bonaire was damaged or if they're got power issues on the island.

Dan

It appears that severe weather crossed the island after 5PM. Looks like they were under the weather for 5 or 6 hours at least.Phil

I'm on a dial-up connection right now because a lightning strike appears to have sizzled part of our leased line at approx. 5:13pm last night (which is also why the WebCams are not being properly updated from Bonaire to the Web server in the U.S.)

We got about 1.7 inches of rain in about an hour. Our power died around 6pm or so, and didn't come back until about 10:30pm, to add insult to the matter. Almost no wind the whole time, but enough to blow rain into our rear windows and put a major puddle in the house - another good reason for tile floors :-)

Jake

Jake..Rain through your rear windows? Sounds like a wind reversal..

Jake,
There wasn't any surge, was there?

Sounds like Lili sucked the air right off Bonaire...wind reversal, most likely. It also sounds like it brought lots of rain and storms off South America over on top of Bonaire last night. Must have been quite an exciting evening on Bonaire last nite. Hope there was no damage done similar to Lenny in '99. Hope to hear from the folks on Bonaire soon...hope all is well. Carole

PS Jake: I believe "wind driven rain" damage might be covered under your homeowners policy....it's all in the way it is worded....hope you only had a puddle of water on the tiles..be careful that no one slips on the wet tile, tho! I broke some front teeth in Lauderdale that way! LOL.

We didn't have any real damage from the water, thanks to our tile floors and quick action.

Jake

jake, linda, yana, bas, grendle and blijke, glad you are all a-ok