By Renee Bayes on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 8:51 am: |
Good morning all! I've been back from Bonaire since last Thursday, and BOY do I have PBD!
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By Igor van Riel on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 9:27 am: |
Hi Renee & All,
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By Igor van Riel on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 10:42 am: |
There's a nice fish
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By Igor van Riel on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 10:43 am: |
Hey, what's this? Am I dreaming or does this look like a turtle?????
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By Michael Gaunt on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 11:44 am: |
Igor - I think you're dreaming (or under the influence of... well, never mind) . It looks to me like the same fish from your previous post, only up close and washed out in the light.
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By Igor van Riel on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 12:02 pm: |
Michael, u could be right...
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By clint harsch on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 12:24 pm: |
talking of turtles, found a really great clip. http://www.cyberdiveshop.com/images/neptune.mpa
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By Renee Bayes on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 12:34 pm: |
That was a great clip!
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By Michael Gaunt on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 12:42 pm: |
Igor-
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By bluetang on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 1:51 pm: |
mornin all...clint, great clip! Igor, it is called web cam hallucination...we look so hard sometimes and dream of things we want to see, and then our mind convinces us that we actually see it! a turtle did come across the cams a couple of years ago (linda said they could see it on the live feed)...to this day, i still can't see it in the picture...but then again, i was never good at ink blot tests! maybe someone remembers where it is in the dusty archives!
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By Michael Gaunt on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 2:31 pm: |
Hey Bluetang - here's the shot you asked for...
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By Bobby J. Morris on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 2:46 pm: |
I take it by the way u guys are talking. Turtles must b a bit scarce down around Bon Aire.
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By Cecil Berry on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 2:47 pm: |
I think it was this one from June 1, 2001.
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By Bobby J. Morris on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 2:50 pm: |
Michael your shot of 4/27/00 sure looks like a turtle to me.
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By Cecil Berry on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 2:51 pm: |
Bobby, I don't think they're scarce as they don't show up in front of the reef cam very often. That's twice now in almost three years. I can't remember the last dive report I read where they did not see turtles while diving or snorkling.
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By Bobby J. Morris on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 2:53 pm: |
Thanks, Cecil, I thought it a bit strange.
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By Michael Gaunt on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 3:01 pm: |
I don't know that they're all that uncommon - we've seen them on both our trips, however a friend just got back and didn't see any.
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By Cynde Loo Hoo on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 3:05 pm: |
i can clearly see the turtle in michael's pic, however, cecil, your's is the one i was thinking of...just where is that turtle again?
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By Cecil Berry on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 3:17 pm: |
Here's a few more pixels of the ink blot.
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By Cynde Loo Hoo on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 3:20 pm: |
oh, now i can see it much clearer! thanks cecil!
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By Cecil Berry on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 3:21 pm: |
Or alternately one from the Keys.
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By Linnea Wijkhof-Wimberly on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 4:45 pm: |
Seeing turtles or certain other critters seems to be the luck of the draw. Last trip I saw 6-8 turtles at different times and places. The previous trip I saw none, but saw lots of seahorses and a few frogfish, and have only seen Ol' Blue once in a dozen times of trying.
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By Igor van Riel on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 4:50 pm: |
Okay, I see my posting got some follow up
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By Igor van Riel on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 4:56 pm: |
I found some Fish & other Sea-creatures...
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By Cecil Berry on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 4:59 pm: |
The visitors are Geoff and Susan Feldman (sp, maybe).
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By Igor van Riel on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 5:02 pm: |
Here are more pics of the visitors talking 2 Jake.
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By bluetang on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 5:03 pm: |
awe igor, you beat me to the jack pic...1 fish 2 fish 3 fish....the visitors are susan and geoffory feldman...she didn't give us a heads up this time!
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By Igor van Riel on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 5:04 pm: |
If that's true Cecil,
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By bluetang on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 5:04 pm: |
ok cecil, now i know we were twins separated at birth!
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By Igor van Riel on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 5:06 pm: |
Well, this thread is definitely back on topic now
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By Cecil Berry on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 5:10 pm: |
Bluetang anything is possible but that one seems unlikely. I was a ten pound baby.
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By Ida Christie on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 5:14 pm: |
One more, and it looks like a short shower might be on it's way.
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By Mike Endrizzi on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 5:14 pm: |
Renee, I got back last Thursday, too. PBD hits fast when you return to a car at the airport covered in two inches of ice. I am starting to get over it today. I just booked a trip to Cozumel over New Years. Not Bonaire, but it will have to do for now.
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By Igor van Riel on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 5:19 pm: |
Ok Mike, rub it in
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By bluetang on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 5:28 pm: |
ok dr. doolittle, i no longer feel sorry for you. you are going to coz for new year's? i hope that your car is in the outer most parking lot, you have to walk to it with ALL of your dive gear in tow (in a t-shirt and shorts), and that you have 10 FEET OF SNOW on your car in the parking lot...phhttt....oh, and that your ice scraper is nowwhere to be found so you have to use your bare hands and fingers to get it off
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By clint harsch on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 6:16 pm: |
Mike hope you have fun in Cozamel. We just spent a week there. If not for getting sick, the touristo atmosphere and the all inclusive hotel plan it was a great time, and all for what we would pay for air to Bonaire. Positives I did get to see the Pyramids and do some diving. They had these cool little underwater self contained scooters nondivers could tour the reef with, what a hoot. Worth going once but really not my kind of place.
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By Mike Endrizzi on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 6:54 pm: |
Here I am just trying to nurse myself through PBD and suddenly I am vicously attacked. Blue, the only reason I brought this up was to try to help Renee (a fellow PBD sufferer) and to let the rest of you know just in case you wanted to join us. Like Clint said, it is an economical trip for a fast get away.
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By bluetang on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 7:47 pm: |
ok dr. d...i shall cut you no slack do you really think that telling renee that you are going diving to coz for new year's will make her feel better? where is that woody when you need him? i bet he will be really bad this time when you are gone...rusty will have to teach him how to download files to your computer whilst you are away having fun
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By Mike Endrizzi on Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 10:22 am: |
I figured telling Renee about my trip to Cozumel would help her PBD. It sure helped mine.
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By Renee Bayes on Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 11:19 am: |
Mike,
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By Mike Endrizzi on Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 11:29 am: |
I have been there for a day trip on the ferry from Cancun. Only did two dives. I didn't really pick the location. Two of my friends here in town called me Tuesday and said they were going. The two people I was diving with in Bonaire last week said they were ready to go again and I just need two more dives hit 100 dives for the year so I figured, "Let's Go!" Why unpack all that scuba gear? I mean, how molding can it get in three weeks?
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