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Sorry all.. just when I thought I was ready for prime time posting, I put up an old picture of Jake from a day or two ago. Gotta get quicker, and more accurate.

Here's the 14:58 capture in big gulp format. Nice bouyancy, but the guy is breathing through his octopus, what a rookie.

someone asked me if this what a diver looks like on the windshield of a submarine?

Try try again, the file was to big and I reduced the size and told it to upload. Didn't happen, got me in a loop with no exit, sounds like my software.

Thanks Linda for the octopus and squid picture link. Carmine, cool pictures of the shark. We saw the cool divers. Was one of the divers a teenager? What type of sharks are in Bonaire? Mrs. Comeau really wants to see a Frog Fish. What are her chances?
Drew from Mrs.Comeau's class

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, what is wrong with this software. Where does it reside, down in Mass somewhere, you'd better let it go this time or I'm coming to get you.



This file is only 30k.

See, threads of imminent death always work on software, computers and teenagers.

Drew, there is a thread on sharks in Bonaire under Diving & Snorkling. Frog fish are not so much rare but very hard to spot. Typically in the shallows, the only one I've seen was from a dock looking into the reeds. Very strange looking fish.

Drew,

The odds of naturally seeing a frog fish on the ReefCam are pretty much nil. They aren't open water swimmers (actually, they kind of hop instead of swim).

But, here's a photo of one that I took back in 1997 at (I think) Alice In Wonderland, a nice dive site here on Bonaire:

Gail Currie had told me of a frog fish she found at Bari Reef while she was there, and as we are going in September, I pulled out my reef book over the weekend and was showing my husband the frogfish...as he has been a big "frog fan" since he was a child...and he just had a wierd look on his face!

Jake - This is my 1st time. I've been watching & reading for quite some time. Your 6/4 dive giant tarpon sighting prompted me. When I was in Bonaire 4 yrs ago - stayed @ Sand Dollar - they warned us about 2 giant tarpon they called Charlie & Charline that hung out @ night in front of their place. We saw them on a nite dive. They swam right under me & went forever. They were HUGE - do you think they could the same one you saw? Hope I signed up right & this goes thru.

What do you know - it posted. I saw a frog fish while I was there too. Last dive, last day, frog fish, 2 sea horses & a school of dolphin played with us on the boat trip back. What a wonderful ending to a great trip & place. I'll be back some day.

Love those frog fish. Thanks for the photo, Jake. Carol

Andy,

I'm not familiar with Charlene, but have dived with Charlie quite a bit near Habitat, and the tarpon I saw on Monday was noticably larger than Charlie. Downright awe inspiring!

Jake

Jake,
How big do you think Charlie is ? He's the biggest fish I've ever seen expect for some shark in the Blue Hole & also @ Walker Cay.
Andy

I think Charlie is about 5 - 5.5 feet.

Jake

Diving at night with Charlie the Tarpon is quite the experience! Diving along the reef with my dive buddy/husband on the inside of the Bari reef , I on the outside, when he points to my left.....here was this HUGE SILVER FISH right along side of me ..hunting in my flashlight beam ! Took me by surprise and tried not to go EEEEK ! but found myself on the inside of the reef and kept searching into the blackness for the ""return of Charlie the Tarpon"..that was years ago, and now each year we return and look forward to finding this huge fish still patroling the waters..by the way I am 6 ft tall and I think Charlei is about 5 1/2 ft long. There are also 3-4 snook that follow under you while you are diving there too...they start to be erksome and a bother as they are always in the way, but what beautiful fish at night!

Andy ~
Saw two Tarpon from the new Lion's resturaunt as we enjoyed a great meal last month. The hostess heard us talking about them and identified them as Charlie & Charlene. You'll just have to go back to Bonaire to revisit them!
~ Sandra

can Somebody tell me how to put a picture in this message???

You know when I was growing up Charlie was a TUNA. Maybe it was Tommy the Tarpon.

Walt, we always called that LARGE noctural visitor "Tommy". Sorry Charlie !!!!

Richard, scrool down to the bottom of the page, click on formatting, keep scrolling down till you hit "Images, Attachment and Clip Art". Following the instruction exactly and, if you attachment is 50 mb or less it will post.

OK kids... I have figured out the mystery.. the tarpon that was in front of Sunset was Tommy... the one in front of Sand Dollar was Charlie.(I think the large one in front of Habitat is actually Jack in a new wet suit) ..as far as large nocturnal visitors if tunas.. I call them dinner...ooops don't know how that spear gun got in my hands

Okay, so now we have Tommy at Sunset, Charlie at Sand Dollar, Jack at Capt Don's, Jay and Walt who hang around the Windjammer. This is getting just a tad "fishy". If you promise to share we won't mention the speargun.. Hmmm, wonder if an old spud launcher might work???

Don't know who's who, but we saw a LAAARGE tarpon our first night, eating dinner at Dock of the Bay
(yum!), down by the Buddy Dive dock. Then saw an even larger one -- definitely in the 5'.5" range -- at Sand Dollar at sunset one eve. Big guys hunting. Do people eat tarpon?

Tarpon are good sport fish (catch & release, using very thin line), but apparently lousy fish for eating (rated inedible or poor in most of the sport fishing guides I have).

Jake

ahh but extremely more edible then Walt or jack

I ain't even gonna touch that one, Jason!

Jake

I had my first tarpon encounter doing a night snorkel in front of the Divi Flamingo last February. It was an awesome experience. He was almost as big as I am and he stayed close to our group the whole time! I even got to watch him eat one of the poor little fishes that were in my flash light beam. Renee was our guide and she said he would brush up on her side as he went by! If I had encountered a fish that big last year I think I would have dropped dead, but now I look forward to another encounter. I wonder if anyone has named him yet!

Darelene, there are a couple of good size schools of tarpon that cruise the resort using the shore lights (and dive lights) for feeding. Our name the tarpon game is purely for our amusement. On occasions I encounter tarpon I have not been able to distinguish (except for size) one from the other. There are a number that exceed 5 ft., so if you assist a tarpon in his nightly rounds, please feel free to Name That Fish!!!

Jake, an extremely wise choice !!!

and to that tarpon that "spooked" my "hard-to-get-along-with" night dive partner out of the water - thank you