Hi folks,

It has been a great experience to see the new cams pics posted by you at the forum! This is the only way I can get to see them, since at my work I can´t access the cams website (it is blocked by websense). As we have almost the same timezone in Rio and Bonaire I usually can´t access the online content to see the daylight.

Well, nevermind. I was just wanting ti ask if you can tell me a little about that wreck that is sunk in front of Eden Beach and we can see from the underwater reef cam!

Daniel

Thought I would swing over here and continue on Daniel's thread. Annie B.

Kids party on the beach.

Thanks Annie, that other one is too big already!

Wish I was sitting there too.

I like this place because the beach never seems to get crowded out. Plenty of space for everyone. Annie B.

Oi, Daniel, seja bemvido nesta banda meia louca.
VOCE VAI ADORAR !
Sorry folks, I could not resit speaking portugueese... Don't forget I lived in Brazil :o)

Dan, later on in the day the all-knowing Cynde Lee will pop in and tell you what she knows about the wreck. All I remember is that it isn't a pirate galleon.

Hey Annie! I'm doing some text scanning and OCR for the historical society - and have the cams on too. Love it!

Is this Indy?????

LaDonna

divers

LaDonna

Divers going in.

Woo Hoo!!!

Divers!!!


Bill

I blinked and missed that, he swam straight past. LOL. Slow 'puter today. Annie B.

close

LaDonna

Juan Paul,

Já estou adorando! E viva BT!

Translation:

I´m already loving it! Long life to BT!

Nice on LaDonna.

Hello again and welcome to all the newcomers! Daniel, I will probably see your group there as I will be arrving in 11 days!

Barbara,

I´ll arrive on the Aug 7th afternoon and stay at Eden Beach until 14th. R u going to be there at this time?

Daniel, eu sou Martine, Jean Paul è o meu Bem quem nem fala português ! Viu ? tadinho !
Translation : I am Martine, JP is my hubby and don't even speak portugueese...Poor him !
Well Dan, better speak english, OK ?
BT is a real team, cara !
Speaking portugueese helps to understand papiamento :o) Did you notice that ?
Oops, time to think about my dinner :o)

Eyes at the ready, Gang

More divers just entered the water



You can just make out a head in the water!!!

Bill

Since there was so much discussion about Seb appearing on the cams I decided to post last August pics of him cleaning the cam so we can make a proper i.d. this year!

OOOO, Daniel, I think we will cross paths in the airport I am leaving on August 7th! Too bad, I would love to learn some Portugeuse and so would my teenage daughter!

Babs, I can give you some lessons when you come to Paris next year :o)

Martine, that would be fantastic!
Daniel, here is a link to the list of July and August travelers and where they will meet!
July & August travelers to Bon

image{1} Time to imagine new panos :o)

Arghhhh !!!!

OMG, this cam is brighter than the other, I have to reduce the image to reach 50ko :o(

Waaaah, and I won't be there !!!!

Hi/Hola Barbara, Martine!

Martine, how was your day off? And how is your back?

I am jealous that I cannot speak nor write portuguese as well as Martine But I try.
Nor my French either - I have to continue practicing but I am thinking of registering in a class!!

Hi Elvira and Martine...and bye for now...I must get back to work!

martine,

You are probably right, better to speak english so everybody can understand!

Papamiento is somewhat similar to portuguease. I think that might have been some portuguease colonizers in the old days at the island. You never know... Have a nice dinner!

Barbara,

I´ll be probably arriving at the end of the afternoon on a Bonaire Excel flight from Curacao. R u still going to be there? I can take an english-portuguease dictionary as a gift for you..

By the way, is there a t-shirt or something that can identify me as a BT user?

Daniel we have adopted this flag as our BT flag just make a printout of it on your computer and hold it up at the airport and see if anyone recognizes it..

don't worry about not getting the black angel fish in there just the flag is great...

Bon Bini my friends Daniel, welcome...OK, as for the wreck, it is the Baka di Laman yacht (not the ferry/water taxi). The yacht ran aground a couple of days after the Lenny waves struck in '99 - the mooring line snapped after the strain of the previous days...what I don't know is it's length...hmmm...anyone? Oh, and Baka di Laman apparently means "Sea Cow, or Cow of the Sea."

Have a good day my friends


(Message edited by cyndelee on July 15, 2004)

eddie,

the flag moves!

i´ll have to carry a monitor in the airport in order to be recognized...

no kidding!

well... if i can´t, where should i put the fish? in the middle of the flag?

Good night all, I will go to bed early tonight. I am not feeling that good cause I had to leave my cat Ramses at the vet's hospital till monday. He is 16 years old and suffers a serious renal insufficiency. He is under perfusion, and vet is quite pessimistic, so do I :o(
See you tomorrow for breakfast. Have a nice evening.

Good Night Martine,
Sorry about Ramses. I've had many cats over the years and know how you feel. It is so hard when they get old and sick.

Talk to you in the morning.

Night Martine, big hugs to you...it is difficult when they get old and begin to fail

Look at them just SITTING there on the beach! PHHT!!!!


parrot...


you think the one on the left is a black durgeon?


mola mola...


do a little dance...


tangs are back...




still see you

Here is an enlarged pic of the dinky one above...guess it's just a tang...

WOW!

So many fish again today!
Martine, so sorry to hear about Ramses...
Daniel, sounds like we will miss you altogether..I leave at 8 a.m through San Juan..but there will be many other BT'ers for you to meet
Fredster...I must have the flag too! Thanks for posting it!
I think Chubby has found us!

Barbara, I left a laminated one in the sign box last summer...if it's still there, you can cop it for the dive

Lot's of activity as the sun begins to set...my favorite time of day to dive

Good night all - see you manana
Look forward to sunsets pics in the morning!!

Martine, From one cat lover to another, I know what you are going through. Our oldest cat Shannon a.k.a. "Baby Girl" is approaching 17 years old.

Every lap needs a cat.

Night Elvira!

More tangs...

Clean cup! Clean cup! As the Mad Hatter says! New thread! New thread! See you there.

~Tweedledum

I'm bummed - I backed up the bigflag.jpg file and deleted the directory from my hard drive and *poof* the files on the CD went bad. Bad files. Bad. Go sit in the corner. Phht.

I'll make a new one and post it in the next thread.

About the Tangs, I watched them in breeding groups straight outside the marina, in about 50 feet of water, just as the sun was setting.

There must have been several hundred milling around, some in little groups of five to ten. The groups were doing spawning rushes, swimming up about fifteen feet, then breaking apart and then swimming back to the sandy bottom.

SO, these guys must be going off to the party.

Melissa - sounds so cool. I love watching the behaviors of fishes - and they look so silly while they're spawning. Not like people, or anything. ;)

Melissa, cool story! I know the wrasses mate that way, didn't know tangs do it! I have the humaan fish behavoir book, and it is really cool that they are actually doing something down there...just not swimming around! LOL!