Sorry for the long silence on the blog – all is well we just have been busy enjoying ourselves .

Sanne kindly gave us some lovely pictures of us sailing:

These are on route to Los Roques.

 

On route to Bonaire

  

We had some friends who were already here in Bonaire – Sara and Joan on Tangeroa were 4 moorings away, Anne and Bob on Baloo were on the mooring next to them and  Sanne and Rik ended up on a mooring nearer the town, we also recognised a few of the other 40 odd boats on moorings here and have made a lot of new friends since arriving.

View of our neighbours from our mooring.

 

After paying for the mooring and checking in we spent the first few days finding our way around the town, checking out the supermarkets, restocking our cupboards, socialising, snorkelling and doing our first Bonaire dive.

So far we have done 12 dives since we got here – probably not as many as we thought we would do but washing our kit takes a lot of fresh water and the dive compressor is a little antisocial for our neighbours! Steve also had a bit of a mishap with his BCD - I think it was my fault as it got caught when I was lowering it into the water! We were able to get it repaired but it took a few weeks so in the meanwhile we bought new ones!

Here are some of the marine life we have encountered mainly diving off the back of the boat.

Everyone loves an encounter with a turtle! Steve’s picture of me taking picture of this chap.

 

  

One of my favourites Honeycomb cowfish – love the horns and colour changes these fish do.

  

 

Smooth trunkfish                                Trumpet fish                                       Spotted Drum fish

  

 

Blue Tang                                                    Friendly French angle fish waving hello, they have grumpy faces though!

  

 

Some amazingly colourful coral                           and christmas tree worms

 

 

                                                                             Baloon fish

 

 

Lobster                                                        Pederson cleaner shrimp

   

 

Banded coral shrimp                  Giant Anemone

 

Lion fish – not native to the Caribbean they are seen as an invasive carnivore with no natural predators although it is thought that grouper have acquired a taste for them.

  

 

Some friends we have dived with – Sara &  Joan      Rik

 

 

and of course pictures of us

  

More on our land and marine adventures in the next posting.