Good morning everybody,
Today is Bastille day and I am quite fine this morning. The great military parade will start in a couple of minutes on the Champs Elysees. It seems it won't rain... West Point students are joining their french equivalent ( Saint Cyr and Polytechnique military schools )for the parade. New York fire men are invited too and will assist the parade in president Chirac's tribune. I have to go for work, have a nice day all, see you later.

Have a 'Magnifique Bastille Day' Martine!! Eileen

Good Morning every one,
Martine, I'm glad you are feeling better today, have a good 'Bastille day,' sorry you have to work.
Hi Eileen,
How are you, I have been looking through the different threads on the Bonaire site, and come across a recipee for "Chicken Cacciatore" thought I might try it,something a bit different,surprising what you find here.(not just fish)
Have a good day everyone.

Good Morning Maria, I am enjoying my morning, though my husband is leaving for work and he is taking the computer with him . I think I might tackle the storage locker and throw out and pack as many items as possible. I hope that you have a wonderful day! Eileen

Morning scratch

Morning all. 75 degrees yesterday, hotter today, maybe 80 degrees. Summer at last. Annie B.

Good morning...

I copied this from CNN....

A man attending France's Bastille Day celebration parade pulled out a rifle just after President Jacques Chirac passed by, but was quickly overpowered by police, a spokesman for the Paris police department said.

Parrotfish and hotlips posing for us again. Annie B.

woops, wrong pic.

What does this hand signal mean......


Is this a flasher.....

What's going on. Annie B.

Silly me, It's got to be Jake cleaning the cam. Annie B. Thanks Jake good job done there.

Annette, it means Forza Italia~(go italy)

Annie,
Jake said yesterday that Linda would clean the cam today because he still can't get in the water because of his hurt toe.......doesn't look like her, but hard to tell.
Carol

Tnaks Carol, I remember reading about jake's accident now. Annie B.

Good spelling eh Carol. Supposed to be Thanks.

Hi everybody,
Back from work ! Yes Kay, you're right, a man holdind a 22 long riffle was arrested on the Champs Elysees. I just saw it on the french TV midday news, but no further comments...Let's see what they'll say on the evening news. This evening we'll have a nice firework at eiffel Tower whose theme is Victor Hugo. Firework will be rythmed with music and V.Hugo poems. Won't go, too crowed, but I can see the firework from the terrace of the building. We planed to go out for diner (japanese). Did anybody solve the "cleaner mystery" ?

Still don't know who the "cam cleaner" was......but it does look better. Maybe Shiva will pay us a little visit and wave through the clean lens!
Carol

It was me after all. Bas had suggested that pressure and salt water would be good for my toe, so I enlarged the toe hole I already had in an old boot, and wandered on in. We'll see if it did my toe any good or not.

Bas will be in charge of ReefCam cleanings while I'm away too :-)

Jake

Jake,
I have always heard that salt water is good for cuts, rashes (poison ivy) etc. A couple of years ago my husband slipped at the edge of the water and sliced his hand open on any oyster shell. The doctor pumped him full of antibiotics because he said salt water was full of nasty microoragnisms that could cause bad infections. It was in the Chesapeake Bay though, so I imagine that water is filthy compared to Bonaire water
Carol

jake, thanks for the cleaning...did you see the filefish that has been hanging around the cam all week? just wondering if it has taken up permanent residence

Cleaning the lens and your toe - now that's Bonairean multitasking!

Jake, I was quite sure it was you on the cam...
Talking about injuries cured in salt water, I don't know. I rasped my left hand against coral just at the beginning of our stay in Bonaire, and it only cured back in Paris (two week later). Salt water seemed to dig more each day the injury instead of healing it, and I needed to spread an antibiotic cream to stop a small infection. Then ?

What's that ? Light reflection or a whole parrotfishes family swimming around ???

Cynde - I did in fact see the file fish - he/she stayed on the other side of the mooring from me pretty much the whole time I was cleaning the ReefCam (water's very thick with stuff today, by the way).

For anyone visiting the ReefCam in the coming weeks, look closely at the mooring line going up from the mooring, there are at least a half dozen well camouflaged slender filefish hanging out right next to the line and the bottom of the mooring buoy.

As far as the salt water on cuts goes - I understand a salt water rinse is good, but that repeated and prolonged exposure of salt water on wounds (as occurs with divers) actually prevents the cut from healing because the wound nevers dries out - I've seen this both personally and discussed it with many others, and Martine's example is common.

I did make sure to rinse my toe with Betadine and H202 (Hydrogen Peroxide) after my short dive today, to help minimize any infection from occurring from the ocean...

Jake

I wonder if a little liquid skin would be in order then?
Seb

thanks for the hotlips filefish report jake...i really do need to get that fish behaviour book...are they territorial and loners? does anyone know?

Here's a cute couple at the gate. Annie B.




Cynde, I thought that all fish were territorial. Annie B.

Here are some afternoon visitors.

Seb,

Liquid Skin's on my list for Walmart Monday afternoon :-)

Jake

oops! picture did not save! We just got Windows XP and I'm still figuring it out. At least you got them Annie B!

Godd luck with it Leigh Ann. Hope you get it sorted soon. Annie B.

About the aborted attempt against President Chirac. That's quite true. The young man arrested this morning truly wanted to kill our President. He succeeded to shoot twice but didn't hit Pt Chirac. He was stopped by spectactors and kept by the police. He is 23 years old and is known as an extreme right militant. After beeing questionned, he seems to talk nonsense and has been transfered to a psychiatric center. Well, I think I am going to bed, watch a video and...sleep. Goodnight all, see you tomorrow.

Martine, Glad they caught that nutter, and that nobody was hurt. Crazy people around. Enjoy your video. See you tomorrow some time. Annie B.

Some fishy activity.

I was just gonna go, and then I saw this. Annie B.

Martine,

The World doesn't need any more crises!! Glad he was stopped. Maybe he thought he was storming the Bastille? Or maybe the "haze" of drugs???

Back from meeting finally - as "scribe" I get to work on the minutes now!! Rusty - Get me a gopher gif digging a bottomless pit!!

Have a good evening for those in the right time zone. France must be watching fireworks about now.

Cheers,

Bill

Yes I wish I was there too!



Finally finished tackling the storage locker, can not believe that we have so much stuff!! We will be donating a lot of it!

Have a great evening! Eileen

Here's more of the same two...looks like they got a little closer so we can read the sign...Hi, Eileen, Annie, Bill, Martine and Carol! Thanks for the webcam cleaning Jake...as a nurse practitioner I'll have to remind you to keep your toe clean and DRY! Free advice that you've probably already gotton! :-)

Hello Barbara, I am taking a time out right now from packing and cleaning out our storage locker (I have a glass of red wine in hand.). I hope to be that couple in the photo someday! Eileen

annie b....fish behaviour is a very cool thing. damsels (such as charlotte, and california's state marine fish, the garabaldi) will stake out a "claim" and farm it. if anything get's on their parcel, they will do just about anything to get it off. and they will reside in that area for quite some time...the male garabladi will farm red algae, to attract a female to lay eggs on his "farm."...other fish hang together in schools, and don't necessarily have a "claim, or stake." i just wonder if the filefish are loners, and such, and stake out a claim. charlotte has been living in the hole in the mooring block on the cam since i began watching going on 2 years now!

Cynde, I find fish behaviour very interesting. I think I understand about the schools, don't they band together like that so they look BIG. Hotlips does look rather singular at this moment in time. As you probably know, I am new to the ocean fishes, so must forgive me if I sound a bit silly at times.Annie B.

Slim has paid us a visit.

I think slim likes the clean cam! Eileen

Grendal has metomorphisized!

Eileen, You're working too hard, but I know it's got to be done.(I'm having a vodka} Annie B.

annie b...i'm not sure if the big schools (bait balls) stick together to look big, i know that they also stick together so they will have a better chance of survival in such a large group...again, i know the fish id pretty good, but not necessarily the behaviour of some. our last day on bonaire, as we couldn't dive due to off gas time before you fly, i did a fish behaviour snorkel class with sand dollar dive and photo. it was really cool as annie (i think that was her name) knew all the places where the babies, and others hung out, and also thier behaviour patterns. i think i am going to have to buy that book so i will have my answers! i just know a lurker out there knows, come on...fill us in on the file fish! maybe it is hanging out as the cleaner gobies are still on the cam, and it is just liking the grooming! there was a french angel that hung out for quite a while on the cams, we named him pierre...

Good Evening Annie B! We are done for the day! We are having our dinner delivered. Cheers! Eileen

Cynde, Yeh they do stick together to make themselves look bigger, therefore more chance of survival. Hope that lurker appears to fill us in on the file fish. Annie B.

Eileen enjoy your dinner. Delivered is good.

Hi there, I'am back, and guess why...
Annie, talking about fish behaviour I have a nice story to tell. It happened when we saw the whale shark. On that day there were million of small babies anchovies schools that barjaks and tunas were purchasing. They manage to cut the big school in small parts to eat the "separated". A small group then decided to protect with us and I don't know what happened with them, except a small little anchovy who decided to be my buddy and stuck my mask and my tank all the time ( jean paul had it filmed), and just when we returned to the pier he just met there another school and we separated. How strange this little anchovy buddied with me during 30 our 40 minuts looking for protection.

Hi Martine, Thought you were asleep. What a clever little Anchovy he was, very sensible. Annie B.

Slim again

Hi Annie,
Really feel asleep now, the cat is snoaring, but it seems the husband stopped. Night night and see you tomorrow.

Beep...beep...beep...Red alert....Divers coming soon

Night night Martine, Just when I thought it safe to go to bed the night divers appear. Still, i'm off too. My dog has taken snoring lessons from my hubby, what a noise. Tissue in ears tonight. See everyone tomorrow. Annie B.

Hi, Cynde, Annie (if your still on), Eileen and Martine...I just took a little nap and was about to post the lovely boat in the sunset too! Thanks for all your help with the fish info Cynde. It makes the site even more fun to learn something. Hey, Annie, let's not insult Jake by giving slim credit for cleaning the lens, especially since he risked his toes life for our viewing pleasure! :-)

I am hoping for night divers too!

I'm just staying a little while more. Have you noticed how beautiful the sunset is ?

What a great end to the day! Beautiful Sunset! And Night Divers!



Eileen

On Eileen's image, we see the divers heads in the water, it seems now, looking at the bubles left, they are aiming the webcam. Please, hurry, I'am sleepy.

I hope they come back, I just see tiny lights in the distance, I have to go back to packing. If not, Good Night Everyone!



Eileen

Wow, good shot Eileen. I missed it...

Good Night Martine! I hope you a great Bastille Day (I know you had to work.)! Night Diving is one of those things I am looking forward to when I learn how to SCUBA Dive in the Autumn! See you tomorrow! Eileen

night all...annie b. discovery produced a series called "blue planet." if you go to discovery.com, search for blue planet. we have the 4 dvd series, it is truly amazing...lot's of fish behaviour stuff!