Dive Club dive again on Saturday. 6 divers. The winds have been gusting at 25 MPH and almost straight from the east. So the sea between Bonaire and Klein was pretty rough, lots of whitecaps. We decided heading South would just expose us to more waves. We played it safe and went in the more protected harbour area. This section of Playa Lechi is also home to the public moorings (visitors). They are two rows parallel to shore. The mooring are cement blocks located on the sandy shallow shelf. They is also a pullup area for the local fishing boats. The area can be hazardous for divers due to lots of small boat traffic.

So out to the moorings where the frogfish are suppose to be. Eric had told us where to find 3 frogfish, all yellow. We found the first two together - a small and a larger one. Some people (like myself) always think of them as being much bigger than they really are. The larger was about the size of a tennis ball but with fins. The water was only about 12 feet deep and there were in a old engine block used as a fishing boat mooring.

We headed to the reef slopes edge to cruise about for the rest of the dive. We had one large encounter. From a distance, the size gave the impression that it was a tarpon. On closer inpection, it proved to be a 5 foot barracuda, much to the dismay of the diver it swam within inches of. On the way back, we found the third frogfish nestled on a sponge in about 30 feet depth.

What fish did I see:
Green Razorfish, Rainbow/Queen/Princess/Yellowfin Parrotfish, Yellowtail/Barred Hamlets, Banded/4eyed/longsnout butterflyfish, fairy basslet, yellowtail/mahogany snapper, 3 big spotted moreys, schoolmaster, bicolor/yellowtail/dusky/threespot damselfish, brown/blue chromis, yellowfin mojarra, Greater soapfish, french angelfish, rock beauty, ballonfish, sharpnose puffer, harlequin bass, flamefish, bar jack, peppermint/sharknose goby, spinyhead blenny, trumpetfish, creole fish, creole wrasse, coney, grasby, french/caeser grunt, spanish hogfish, lizardfish, sergeant major, blackbar soldier, reef squirrelfish, yellowhead/bluehead wrasse.