Good Morning everyone!

Looks like a nice day here today.

Let's try the up load again.

The program will not let me upload.

Morning Eileen, and thanks for latest Quinn's pics. Will you try spinaches ???
Beautiful weather indeed on Bonaire, while actually Ivan is devastating poor Jamaica http://www.goes.noaa.gov/HURRLOOPS/huirloop.html
Must be horrible over there... OMG !
JP is at our astronomy club and I remained home due to "home work" to do. Yikes.
Have a nice saturday, I am kust lurking around...

Good Morning Martine! We will try spinach I am sure eventually. We have to get through peas today first. You never know, Quinn might like them!

Our neighbours are from Jamaica, I hope their families are safe.

Good morning!


I did like how the weather channel described how Ivan's eye never came ashore on Jamaica:
"Ivan remained offshore and paralleled the southern coastline of Jamaica (almost like a barricade was in place along the shoreline). The center is now just over 70 miles away from Montego Bay, Jamaica."

Continued good thoughts for the rest in the path!

I am going out shopping for a little bit.

It looks like underwater vis is improving :o)

Your opinion ? I have the feeling the sand has moved under the wreck...

Good morning.

Have some Starbucks coffee.

I will be going through Montego Bay at the end of the month. Jamaica is really taking a hit. Our waitress at dinner last night was from Jamaica and could not get through to her family on the island.

Martine, have you ever tried the Paris Starbucks?

Good morning everyone! At work now and keep on thinking about poor Jamaica. Reading different threads on stormcarib.com and other sites and I just simply can't imagine.

It's looking like a glorious day in Bonaire. Now who has the coffee? I need a few cups.

Mara

Mara, I'm on probably my 7th cup of coffee. lol But I did get a lot done this morning.
Fish hanging around:

Hi John,
Will you believe me, but I thought of you while in UK, at Oxford, exactly ... I saw a Starbucks coffee shop and I just took a picture of it. I didn't even tried yet, but maybe they were serving Starbucks for breakfast, who knows ?
Oops, where are my manners... hi Kathy and Marabeth :o)

Goodmorning everyone....I got kicked off my internet connection last evening and couldn't say goodnight

I can't wait to upgrade to DSL....I had a blistering fast connection speed of 14.8Kbps last evening Today it is better 49.2Kbps! LOL

I am just popping in for a little while, then we are off to the beach! Gotta enjoy summer while it lasts!

Everyone have a great day!!!!!!!

LaDonna

Hi Martine...I was trying to figure out how to put one pic on top of another (layers) to compare the wreck, as you mentioned above. I can't do it! lol Oh well, back to my regular Saturday morning housework.

Oh, we should all send the guy cleaning the beach a thank you card. He's made progress!

Good morning everyone...yes, it looks as if Jamaica is going to have some very serious damage from the satellite images...with the eye so close it is getting the worst of the winds I'm afraid
Lots of work being done

Something add floated by

And Sarge was back

Break time?

Boat going bye..didn't Linnea say the harbor master recommended no boats be out today because high seas were expected?

All the jacks are checking out the cams this morning

Hello Everyone!

We got some news from my neighbours. Their fruits are all down, her mom's house is standing but her grandmother's roof blew off. And grandmother is refusing to leave the house! But everyone is safe and sound from where they live. I hope more good news comes in. I am glad the eye stayed offshore.

Hi, Eileen, sounds like good news in that no one was injured!

I went out the morning with a fellow named Stewart ? from NJ from the Sand$ pier. He wanted to see if the yellow seahorse was still in place. We found it in 60ft near where he usually is. The vis was down a bit below 30ft and lousy in the shallows. One of these days I am going to try for the underwater cam, but will have to sneak into the water unless I can find a DB.

Going to go for now...Alison and I are going white water rafting with the docs from work...see you all later!

Before and After....
Thanks to you all the persons who clean the beach, you did a great job and you certainely wished not to have to do that.
I wish I could be there and give a help. Time to think about my dinner. Already 18.15 here :o)

Well thanks all for the coffee - we close soon - HURRAY and then I can get another cup ;-) The exercise helped but that was at 9:00AM - the adrenaline is GONE :-(

Things are looking better and better.

Bye ya'll.

good afternoon all.
Happy to see that the cleaning up is getting there.

Something at Willy the Wreck. Visibility was very good this morning, now it is a bit more blury...

The expected high seas haven't showed up as of noon. The dive boats aren't going out today because of the Harbor Master, but plenty of the private boats are going back to their moorings.

cute fish

Looking at the NOAA site just now, I see they've announced the return of El Nino. Interesting. http://www.noaa.com/

this morning we went to pink beach, and looks like always, the palm trees and the road are in the same condition as before the hurricane, tomorrow weŽll back to clean up the beach with some friends and volunteers...all you guys are invited.......bluefish

Missed, from the archives.

Hi All! Great captures. Thanks for the updates from those on island! Barbara, have fun! Oh, and Michael said "go for it" so we need to chat

Kathy, I am NOT happy about another El Nino...the one in 1983 wiped out most of the kelp on the Southern California coast, and I really would hate to see it come up our way and mess things up again...water now at the surface is about 70, 71F, pretty much unheard of unless...El Nino...

Hi Cynde, did NOT know that about an El Nino...have been meaning to look up what others have been like all day and haven't yet. The do say it is a weak one!

Felt the need to fix the tilt again. They did a good job on the beach today...just a little more, bring the chairs back, and adjust the cams and all will be right with the Bonaire world again.

Not the lovliest of sunsets tonight, but it was after a hard day I suppose...not much joy in the light. Anyway, tomorrow's another day!

Good Evening All.
I'm back at work again....this time for a twelve hour nightshift. Didn't get a chance to check in this morning. Good to see things getting cleaned up. My thoughts are with those who are still in the path of Ivan.

We had a great raft trip...lots of rapids today, what a blast! Alison is totally conked out after a late night birthday party and 4 hours of paddling! Wow, Cynde...we'll have to get together on MSN soon!
A few fish from the archives!

The new beach bar lights must be on light sensors now...

And the bar must be back in action!

We've had a busy afternoon, Joel painted the kitchen and I looked after Quinn, he is rolling around and making attempts at crawling (a little early in my opinion!!). Now Quinn is in bed and I just read that Ivan is aiming for the Caymans . Another El Nino. The weather is funny as it is nowadays.

Glad you had a great day Barbara! Hi Janice!

Hi Eileen....I hope to see you Monday afternoon. I'll be checking in hopefully in the morning before I go home.