Good morning all!
Nothing 2 see on the cams yet, but I missed the sunset yesterday and found no pics of i either
So here it is....




And of course a warm welcome 2 all the new Bonaire Talkers! Where did all of u suddenly come from?

Morning Igor some of us are up
Do you know of a good web source of reef fish identification? i am trying to ID a fish photo that i took in Bon at Xmas.

Morning Igor and Martin. It's still snowing here... (much less then yesterday, but still some snow...)

Hi Martin its snowing here as well (UK).
I am of work with a touch of Bronchytis, its giving me a chance to go through all of the holiday pics, Ive only scanned the best photos, about 40% and we have over 130 of the damn things....

I must learn to click less....

... And post more...

Morning Martin & Martin
There are some good Fish-Id sites. I'll look one up.
Meanwhile on the cams...

Thanx Igor, that should be of some help.

Oh, and could someone please turn on the light??

Habla ...

Nice sunsets Igor ..
I found a good one Martin (Asher), but I lost my favorites .. so, I don't remember the address anymore. It had loads of pics .. so keep looking :o)

Ow, and Igor .. my remark ('bout being tall) was indeed just coming from seeing your ID.

Anyone of the dutchies going to Bon soon ?

Sunrise detected ..

Here are two of them...
http://www.saltydogangler.com/fishid.cfm

http://www.reef.org/webres/gallery/carib/gallery1.htm

There is a better one, but I cannot find it at the moment, sorry
Hope this helps any way

Olaf, we'll leave May 28-th.

Thanx Igor

Depends on what u call soon Olaf...
I know Martin is going in May/June 4 a special event...
We won't be able 2 go this year , but we will go in the beginning of 2004!
Sun rise on the north!

Thanks Igor they dont have the one that I am trying to ID, I had already been to Reef.org.
never mind I will just have to buy that book....

Martin, do you have a picture of it? Maybe we can help...

May .. well, that's soon enough ... and at least something to look out for ..
Don't know whether I make it this year to Bon .. I recently decided 2003 has to be the year the house-restructuring has to be finished .. I've about had enough of it after 3yrs ..
So .. but Martin, what special event ???

Blikje on guard already ..

Dive boat detected at mooring #22 ..

Olaf, June 9-th is the big day for us...

Even under water the lights go on ..

09-06-2003 is THE big day Martin ???
Very nice .. nice place to do that day then ..
We will need to see some pics afterwards, you understand that ...

We'll be on the cams, so you'll all be able to see it...

Good Morning Igor, Olaf and Martin x 2!
Martin A., as Martin suggested, post the picture......someone is bound to be able to help you at least get "into the ballpark" and then you could narrow it down by searching on the web.

The same reason over here Olaf: we are redecorating the bedroom and have 2 do the bathroom this year.
Clint, here your Post-Vulure again.

The same reason over here Olaf: we are redecorating the bedroom and have 2 do the bathroom this year.
Clint, here's your Post-Vulure again.

Uhhhm.... Oops

Carol, he did, check here:
http://www.oldbonairetalk.com/cgi-local/bbs/show.cgi?30/67076

Martin I have tried posting it twice on the Diving bonaire thread, first one the image was way too big the second time had to much detail and its still trying to upload, I obviously need to apply some more though to this....
Hows this

Oooooo.......that's pretty!

Looks like Charlotte 2 me

a type of damselfish, maybe?

That's Charlotte family indeed. Here's one I made last november of Charlotte:

I'm sure thats not a species, a descriptive name maybe, sorry about the image upload problems you can tell its my first time cant you?

Charlotte is the pet name for the fish I posted above... I'll go into the books but I think it's a yellowtail damselfish.

Martin.....Charlotte is a damselfish....I think Martin A.'s fish is related also. Well, I have to go to school and teach someone to read See you all later (be on the lookout for the "puffer")

apparently its a yellow tail damselfish
according to Bob Neer

A blue-dotted yellow-tail damselfish ..
Sounds good .. I'll have a look as well ..

Grendall, enlighten us ..
What is it you see ??

Nobody with cookies that's 4 sure
so I'm leaving...

Wow look at the clouds!
Pretty colors...

First fish-activity of the day.


Sorry Carol, no Puffer yet...

Hello Everybody, found this one, Joost

Lovely gold coast ...

divers expected, Joost

I caught some fish 2

I hope the divers show up soon. We need some underwater action!

Good Morning all.. you were up bright and early (my time!) Thanks for all the beautiful pix so far.. it's nice to see the sunrise... we're in the 30s and quite foggy today. I like the fog as a change of pace, but prefer the bright and shining sun!

Stef

here is a diver

here some more

Good catch Stef & Joost!

Good Morning, everyone! Thanks for the welcome, Igor, it's nice to talk to everybody. I have been reading this for quite awhile just haven't posted much. Great early morning pictures, nice to see divers :-).
Overcast here today and warmer, 30's, but it is a nice change from the subzero we have been having. I hold my hands up to the computer screen and hope the webcams warm them up!!
Mary Lou

Hi Mary Lou - hey.. what number birthday are you coming up on? 29 again

I'm sorry I didn't reply to your post last evening... it took forever to get home from work, and then I HAD to go grocery shopping after the day's conversation... BOY OH BOY.. bagels and smoked salmon for dinner.. YUM OH! And then it was bedtime!

stef

divers gone, fish back, Joost

HEllO,

I am a newby here! My name is Marisa Thompson and I was turned to this site from www.scubaboard.com! I love coming here everyday and seeing the sunrise and set! I will there in late june, still a long ways away but this helps so much. I love seeing this place! I have been certified for a year now my boyfirend 4 years, and since we met about a year ago, this is one of our passions. I can see myself really being an islander someday and just diving all the time. I am a creative person, with a degree in Achitectural Design, since Sept 11th my job really wasn't a need. So I had to get into the corporate world and be business like! URGH One of these days I will hopefully move to an island to live and dive as well as run some sort of business! Maybe photography! Until then this is a haven of happiness and keep the post coming!

Hello and welcome Marisa. You have found yourself a new addiction...

Welcome Marisa,

Claire and I will be there in late June too. We'll have to get together.


sail boat in the distance

Hi Stef
Not 29, 4-0, it's ok I am not going to have a heart attack, in my mind I am still 12, never got past that age for some reason :-)!! Your bagels sound yummy. Grocery store after work? You deserve a gold medal, that's my worst nightmare!!! I think I was asleep on the couch around 8 so I wasn't on the computer much last night. That's what happens when I stay up late the night before I teach an early morning class! 6:30am class Thursday morning?! I need my sleep.
Mary Lou

what is this one doing?

NO WAY!!!!!! Scott and I are BOTH celebrating the big Four-OH too

I told him that I was planning on having a mid-life crisis, and he pointed out that that was ok, but I needed to remember that HIS mid-life crisis was going to be alot more expensive than mine (sports car I assume), so I relented...

so we're going diving instead... we figured a dive trip was better than a mid-life crisis anyway!

Hey Stef,

My mid-life crisis is parked in the driveway and we're going to Bonaire in June.

That is an octopus in the 13:00 pic. Hope it doesn't damage the camera! Jake, get out there and run him off!

Hi! I've been reading this message board for the past month, trying to decide whether to go on a diving cruise (Roatan, Grand Cayman, Cozumel and Belize) or to come to Bonaire. All of you enthusiastic divers convinced me (without even knowing it) that Bonaire is the place for me right now! So, I've done it! I'm all booked for March 21-28. Thanks guys!

Congratulations on your choice Karen. I've been to Roatan once (stayed at CoCoView) and Grand Cayman a couple times. Roatan is actually what got us thinking about Bonaire.. we enjoyed the shore diving there so much! I loved both places, and am very much looking forward to Bonaire... we'll be there the 12th through the 19th, so will just miss you!

Hey Kevin - Scott has two Mustang convertibles already.. one a 93 and the other a 98.. I think that's enough, don't you ;)

mornin all, geez you are a busy bunch this am...welcome to the newbies...karen, wise choice, you will love bonaire! marisa, click here, June Boniare Visitors and Martin can add you to the list. There are quite a few BTalkers that will be there!

NEVER ENOUGH! I've got 2 Z28's. A 02 and a 93. Looking for an 96 Impala SS in the future. To bad there's not enough road in Bonaire for a Z.

Stef & Mary Lou,
Go to
Everything Else Bonaire:
Feb/Mar BTers 2003 (#2)
for todays updates to the Feb/Mar BT'ers lists

Hi Stef,
We definitely need to have a HUGE birthday party!!! And about that midlife crisis....... I thought about it too, but my husband turned 40 a few years ago and he didn't have one so I am not allowed to. RATS!!! Cause mine was going to be good.... not sure what I was going to do but it would have been good :-). My big request for this birthday was not to be in the cold weather, preferably underwater in my favorite place, I won!!

And Kevin- you are just plain lucky.... care to pass along any tips???

Doooh! Visitors at the gate

On the cars, or my loving wife, cause if she didn't love me I wouldn't have the cars.

Going to Bonaire is an imperative! After my first trip, life wouldn't be the same if I couldn't go back, and back, and back.......... If I had to ultimately choose between the cars and never going to Bonaire again, oh well, they are only cars.

Kevin, sounds like you are lucky on two fronts!!

Karen, I agree, excellent choice, this is our fourth trip. We talk about going other places, but after a lot of discussion it always comes back to Bonaire. There is nowhere like it!!

Now Stef, about that party????????

PARTY ! PARTY! When? Where? How about June on Bonaire?

Oops, almost forgot, Chet, thanks for putting the dates on your list, I hope to see some BTer's while we are there.

Sorry, Kevin, you are going to have to move up your reservation to March. Or........Stef and I could come back for another party in June? Sounds good to me. I am never in Bonaire long or often enough!!

I've been checking all the profiles for you new BTers. How about some pictures of yourselves?

June 9-th with an afterparty on the 10-th...

Found these in the archives from today.

Martin: We're not there until the 20th. How about 21st into the 22nd and if needed on into the 23rd. Dive, party, sleep, dive, party, sleep..

Swimmers!

looks like the neighbors are out again...jake and linda, can i take blijke and grendel over to their beach to "play" when i am there?

Good afternoon everyone.... just stopped by the ckeck on the cams. I'm not sure but I think that's 'Pierre' our resident French Angle in the lower left. It looks a little more like him on the enlarged pic.



P.S. Great octopus pic from earlier - made me realize we never came up with a name for him. Any ideas?

I think the octo's name is Shiva, Michael

Great caps gang!
Great 2 see out octo back! She'd doing the cam cleaning now and than

Our octo that is. And yes, Freddie, I believe she got the name Shiva.
Hi Freddie, by the way...

hi michael, shiva, martine from france named her! here is a parrot!

Satchmo and a Parrot (I think ?)

Ok Cynde, that's a real double

Hi Kevin,
I updated my profile, but no picture. I will scan a photo in and put it on tonight. No scanner at work.
Mary Lou

Igor Hello and blue tang too,
Igor you are a techie!! could you help Bill and Billbot out in Chat?? Please...
Link

Shiva, hmmm. I think the beastie is best at stealing the red lens filter.

How many so far Jake? I know of at least one.

Kevin

Kevin, u cannot blame Shiva!
What would u do: your whole world is blue and all of a sudden there's this neat piece of equipment that adds some color 2 your life....

Igor, You wound me. I do not blame! I point out the skill and intelligence of our little friend. and it's love of Jakes toys

I wasn't out there 2 wound u Kevin
I was just picturing an image of Shiva with the red-filter in 1 of her 8 arms holding it in front of her eyes going "Wooooo maaan"...

Martin A., here's Charlotte again!

Nice Octo-gif Stef... but I guess Jake will stop by and tell u 2 keep the cute GIF's in the Community Topic. That's the part of the board where all the people who don't have a life hang out
U're welcome 2 join us over there!

This thread is becoming a bit 2 long, so I'm starting a new one over here. See ya there...

I heal quickly! Excellent post Stef!

It would be nice to see shiva on total. I wonder if she know that ever time we see her we're looking up her dress ? LOL