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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By deb sperling (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #6) on Friday, June 13, 2003 - 12:46 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

I've been scouring these boards looking for Canadians without much success. C'mon, I know you're lurking here somewhere - stand up and wave your flag!

We are making our first trip to Bonaire July 31-Aug 10. 47 days. Yippee!!! Can't wait. I am hoping this will be our best dive trip ever. It certainly will be the best trip to date for our teenage daughter. Thanks to these boards, we even found another diving family that will be right next door to us.

How can we pre-arrange to meet other BT'ers when we are in Bonaire?

Deb (and Rick and Erica)

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By michel jarry (BonaireTalker - Post #15) on Friday, June 13, 2003 - 4:51 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Hello Deb

If you Ontarians still consider Quebec a part of Canada (we just elected a federalist party at the last election in April...) I answer your call. My wife and I spent our last 6 winter vacations in Bonaire. We started with one week stays, and now we go for two weeks at the time. We even booked our room for next January during our last stay.

Unless your idea of a vacation is the "night life", loud music and partying, which you will not find on Bonaire, your will LOVE the island. No stress. No rush. Not a single traffic light!

Tell me about your experience after coming back.

Enjoy!

Michel Jarry
Montreal, Quebec
Canada

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Eileen Kimmett (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1745) on Friday, June 13, 2003 - 5:17 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Hello Deb and Michel! (Of course many Ontarians consider Quebec part of Canada:-)!) My husband and I are planning to go next year. Bonaire looks like such a wonderful island!

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Lisa Levy (BonaireTalker - Post #12) on Friday, June 13, 2003 - 7:41 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Canuck check in! Lisa from Montreal here...

I will be down on the 22nd of June but I'm leaving the 29th .

Michel, what is the Canada Direct # to call home from Bonaire...is it 1-800-744-2580 or is it 1-800-555-1111 or "none of the above" ?

Thanks!
(see my user profile for a website with a patriotic pic)

Lisa

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jake Richter (Moderator - Post #4374) on Friday, June 13, 2003 - 7:53 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Have you all considered having one or more Canadian BonaireTalk dinners? :-)

Montreal and Toronto strike me as two possible locations...

Jake

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By deb sperling (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #8) on Friday, June 13, 2003 - 8:22 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Tks for suggestion, but Toronto (40 minutes from me) and Montreal (5.5 hours from me) are a loooong ways apart. I fly to Mtl on business. but Lisa, would love to meet you. Erica loves pugs. We were breeders of Golden Retreivers for 15 years.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By michel jarry (BonaireTalker - Post #16) on Friday, June 13, 2003 - 10:37 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Dear Jake

I sincerely think that the only place to hold a BT dinner is on Bonaire... I would really not feel comfortable having one while seeing snow falling through the restaurant window...

And, Lisa, I did not find any Canada Direct number to be used from Bonaire. When calling home, I use the Telibon phone booths. However, as it has already been written on this board DO NOT use the blue phone booths. Very, very expen$ive...

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By seb schulherr (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #673) on Friday, June 13, 2003 - 11:33 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

So would this be the 'eh list,'eh?

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Eileen Kimmett (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1770) on Saturday, June 14, 2003 - 5:47 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

LOL Seb! How about a dive in the summer or fall???

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By seb schulherr (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #675) on Saturday, June 14, 2003 - 9:59 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

? Meaning '04, Eileen, or am I unawake enough to be addled?

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By seb schulherr (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #676) on Saturday, June 14, 2003 - 10:00 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

BTW, I love your quote Eileen, who is Trooper?

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Eileen Kimmett (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1781) on Sunday, June 15, 2003 - 11:24 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Seb, we could get a group together to go diving here in Ontario perhaps in late summer or fall. (We have many weddings in July to go to :-)). Trooper is a rock band, and I think they are Canadian (not entirely sure) and the quote is from a song that came out I think in the 70's.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Daren Daniels (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #1) on Monday, June 16, 2003 - 10:58 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Our friends that have been coming to Bonaire since 1980's are from Vancouver Island.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By deb sperling (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #9) on Monday, June 16, 2003 - 12:29 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Thanks everyone for your responses. Lisa, Michel, Eileen, and me : it appears the "eh" list (Thanks Seb!) is pretty small. Eileen, we might be interested in a local dive this summer. I say might - we've been diving for 12 years or so and never done freshwater. Did our checkouts in Cozumel, got spoiled by all the beauty in the Caribbean, never felt compelled to dive up here. The trouble with that, however, is that we can only do one Caribbean trip a year so I always feel rusty and a bit nervous when I do my first few dives. It would be smart to do a few local dives each year. Anyway, let me know if you are planning an event!

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By michel jarry (BonaireTalker - Post #20) on Monday, June 16, 2003 - 7:29 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Deb, I feel the same about canadian diving. My last dive here was three years ago in Mephremagog lake. Brown fishes swimming in ice cold water, with muddy bottom and a few algae are not my idea of the perfect dive. A few sites seem to be interesting here up north: the St-Lawrence on the Quebec north coast, and the BC coast. However, I still prefer diving with a 2 mm wet suit than with a dry suit with hood, gloves, scarf, etc.

Michel

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Lisa Levy (BonaireTalker - Post #16) on Monday, June 16, 2003 - 8:10 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

...and a tuque! You forgot a tuque Michel!

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Lorraine Bayford (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #9) on Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 2:21 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Yiks, other Canadians, too cool!!! I rarely talk on BT as I feel very isolated out here in Northern
B.C. Didn't know this section even existed on BT
til Deb told me to register. B.C. diving is wonderful but Bonaire diving is divine. Free of
6mm drysuits/gloves/hoods and feeling like the Michelan Man. But they laughed at us in Bonaire and Mexico because we dove in just our bathing suits. Well, probably because it wasn't a pretty site! I haven't found anyone from this side of the Country yet, only a couple in Edmonton and a fellow in Alaska. Hi to ya all eh'ers.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Lorraine Bayford (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #10) on Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 2:31 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

P.S. For those of you going to Bonaire for the first time or anyone interested, I have posted
a trip report on "Trip Reports" dated Nov 25/02 "Canadians invade the Dive Inn". We had a blast and
the Bonaire Webcams were one of the highlights. My husband and I have just booked with the Dive Inn again for February 7-23 next year. Can't wait!!
Bonaire Dreams to all.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Eileen Kimmett (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1799) on Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 5:18 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

OK, Deb, I'll keep you posted! I know it will not be July - busy month!:-)

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Lisa Levy (BonaireTalker - Post #17) on Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 5:32 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Hi Lorraine,

I would love to go and dive or snorkel in B.C.

I went snorkeling in Alaska once and was amazed at the incredible colours of the anemone and other creatures just off the shore.

I am sure that donning a Michelin-Man suit is worth it for the beauty and variety of the marine life.

Lisa in Montreal

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Lorraine Bayford (BonaireTalker - Post #12) on Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 10:21 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Hi Lisa, yes diving B.C. waters have some of the best marine life in the world. Unfortunately, I'm 500 miles north/east so don't get there are often as I would like. Our interior lakes are cold, dark and nothing to see but is (in my opinion) the best place for a student to learn. If you learn in the worst place then you will feel comfortable
anywhere. My husband and I did a dive 6 weeks ago to fix a boat buoy and the temp was 38 degrees F and visability was 5 feet but at the end of the dive it was braile diving. Not a pleasant dive but I told him just think of Bonaire and that
works.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jill Ganderton (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #122) on Friday, June 20, 2003 - 9:42 am:     Edit PostPrint Post

Hello fellow Canucks! Have only had time to lurk occasionally since our last trip, but wanted to let you know we're still here, just too busy! Maybe we'll have more time soon and will be able to participate on the board a bit more. We are looking forward to Christmas and New Years in Bonaire again.

 


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