Good Morning Everybody,
cloudy, cold, rainy wednesday here in Hamburg.
Therefore: coffee and tea is served.

Torsten

good morning Torsten.
Although it's almost afternoom for me, thanks for the first cup of coffee today.
Missed you yesterday?
Raining over here too!

daylight in 8 minutes...






Good morning Bonaire!

Good Morning Torsten and Stan. MMM Coffee! We are supposed to get some rain this afternoon.

Looks like a nice day!

Good afternoon stan and torsten
, good morning Eileen.

It serves you right Eileen , we don't need all that rain for ourselves

had to slow down to 50km/hour yesterday afternoon to prevent the car from floating of the highway.( you're entitled to drive 120km/hour there)

sjossss

Good Morning Jos! LOL!

Sarge sneaking in for a closeup thinking no one can see him.
There he is again!

Time for the puter to go, I wish you all a wonderful day!

Good Morning Eileen, good morning Jos,
Eileen - I lighten it a little....

Good Morning Stan,
work sometimes interfere with caming

(Message edited by engelshai on August 25, 2004)

Good morning all.

Starbucks coffee is ready to wake one and all.

We saw Open Water last night. Booooooooring. It is a short movie and yet it is still too long. It is so bad and and rates just ahead of the absolute worst movies. (Just pick one.) If I was not a diver, I would have demanded my money back. Eight of us from the Atlanta Reef Dwellers met, ate dinner, and went to the movie.

We had a discussion about safety and signaling devices after the movie. I have both a orange safety sausage and a dive alert horn. One comment was that Bonaire diving is shore diving and the island will not leave you.

John. Yes, not exactly a blockbuster is it, and I did wonder why they didn't have any safety/signalling gear with them. Annie B.

Sarge to the right.

ARGH!!! Lost connection for a minute there. Annie B.

Buenos Dias to All!!!

Thanks for the sunsets last night!

It is a bit cloudy here in Georgia, it seems we are going to get rain.

John, your time is getting closer to go to Bonaire, I am sure you are counting the days. Is your wife going? Tell her I say hello.

One more day and I am off to California - yeah!!

Thanks for the coffee!! Have a great day


I wish I was there - hopefully next year!

Elvira,

'Asa Says hello. Yes, she is going to Bonaire with me and I am ready to go. Must wait, because you cannot rush the coral spawning.

Enjoy California.

Good morning to all The beach looks great this morning we would love to be there!! O'well have to wait till sept. 15th. {}

Good Morning Elvira, Ron, John, Hi and Bye Eileen, and good Afternoon Annie, Stan, Torsten, and Jos!!

It looks like one of the lounge chairs decided to move itself into the sun!! LOL ......




This looks like an almost perfect picture postcard!! Almost - because there are no people!!

I hope everyone has a great day!!

Bill

Hello Everyone!!!

Elvira - I am so excited for you - going to CA to stay with Cynde and Michael!!! You guys will have such a great time!!!! Remember we want pics and a report!!!

John - loved your comment on the island never leaving you!!! very true!!!! I don't think I am going to see that movie - since Dirk is taking his classes next week - no way do I want to scare him away from diving!!!!

Nice bright beach this morning!!!

finally caught some fish...



that's it for me for today..off to a meeting.
have fun all!

Good morning, everyone! 13 Days to go.

divers...

Fish

Looks like this guy is reaching down for something. Annie B.

Good morning, Annie B!

more divers...

Hi Jeff. Guess you must be getting pretty excited about your up and coming trip. Annie B.

diver

Can't help it. I have been getting giddy twice a year for 13 years. Bonaire seems to get a lot of people that way! Gee, I can't imagine why?

double

Hello Everyone, back at the puter checking out the people, divers and fish on the cams. It is raining in Hammond, Indiana and 69d. It seems like the temperature is stuck on the reefcam it has been 81.5 for a long time. Does anyone know why it doen't change?

GMTA Torsten. Raining heavy here now with thunder booming. This seems to be a daily thing lately at this time. Annie B.

Satchmo I think

Yellow tails.

Just checked the archives and looks like all the fish have deserted us!!!LOL!!

Found this shy one that looks like he was peeking in!!!LOL!!

Now this guy was swooping on by!!!LOL!!

Part of a fish, lol

Hey Kathy!!!GMTA!!!

Why don't you and your hubby return to Bonaire after Christmas this year!!! Its hard to find some place that will top it!!!

Mary,

The movie was boring and show people on a cattle boat making dumb decisions and not having proper gear. For about a $100 you can have a dive alert horn, whistle, sausage, and mirror. It took me 47 dives to see my first shark and until my last trip to the Keys to see anything other than sand sharks and nurse sharks.

I have recognized the possibility of being left behind and dive the way the crew wants and make sure some people on the boat would know I am missing.

Good Afternoon everyone! Here is a fish passing by

At last another fish!!!

Hi Lee Ann, Mary and Kathy. It sure is quiet here today. Martine phoned me from Cornwall this evening. She is having a wonderful time which I am glad about. It was so nice to speak to her again. Annie B.

Sarge

Hey Annie B! Looks like we are going to have a nice sunset tonight.

Hi all, I've hardly had time to go fishing lately (camming) at work. ;) Here's a tiny tail.


Have any of you even been to Puerto Plata, Dom Rep.? I keep finding crazy air included/all inclusive deals there. Mary, I did check Bonaire airfare again last night. Couldn't help it, lol. Still think we're going to save Bon for summer, though.

Kathy. I was in Dom Rep a few years back now. Trying to remember where we stayed. Annie B.

More sunset.......

Nice captures Lee Ann. Lovely pastel colours. Annie B.

Here are a couple from the archives that got missed

I saved them too small. Glad you have the couple Annie B!

Annie, was just reading last night's thread and saw you watched Signs last night. Scary movie!! Made me scream. ;)

Weak light tonight...yellow and lilac instead of gold and purple


And picasso, the same color

Kathy. I do like a good scarey movie. LOL. I shall watch that one again at sometime. Just remembered. We stayed at Juan Dolio, an all inclusive package, very reasonable price too. It was in the days before I got the courage up to try and snorkel. Annie B.

Nice one of Picasso and friend.

I think they want another kind of movie. Named this one loveydovey. lol ;)

Leigh Ann, where are you? The sun has begun it's dive to the sea!

Activity suddenly, sign people (speaking of Signs, Annie), lol

Hahahaha, Kathy. Very appropriate.

Drinks all round please. Cheers. Annie B.

I think he found the perfect place to sit and she found the perfect place to work - on Bon, that is.
;)

Think I will, Annie. I'll have a nice glass of zin. ;) That is, a refill.

Love this color, close to amethyst

Annie, your palm is red suddenly. And children on the beach. I image the boy as saying, "Where are they?", the girl as saying "Daddy, Daddy!, seeing him", and the baby saying "dada?, following sister" lol

Whoah, messed up my quotation marks, lol.

It was over so suddenly

Or for those who stayed, the very last look

Time for dinner!

Enjoy you're dinner Kathy. Loved the captions to the pictures. Time for me to go to bed now, so I will see you and everyone again tomorrow. Annnie B.

Sweet dreams everybody. Annie B.

Annie, I'm being quoted a price of $399 pp for 6 nights including airfare, all-inclusive on the beach for Puerto Plata, which as I said, is crazy, it's way crazy and you can shore dive at the resort, reef just off the beach. So many islands to look at. My husband has traveled the world thanks to his military career (retired), but not I. I plan to see it one island at a time.

I'm hungry, food's ready, gotta go eat!

Glad you were around for the sunset Kathy. I had to go vacuum the swimming pool and the pump broke, so now we have a half clean pool. Think its time to shut it down for the summer instead of buying a new pump. I'm tired of cleaning it anyway!