Grendel is up early (or is it late - I can never tell). Wonder what's happening...

Cold and snowy tonight here in Iowa. We're supposed to have 8" of snow on top of 1/4" of ice. What a pleasant start to the weekend.

Michael

Good morning Michael. Blikje is up early and snoozing in her favorite place. A bright day here so far, but freezing. Annie B.

And so another nice day begins on Bon.

Lovely morning colours.

Annie, I must have an overactive imagination but the two pictures together take on the look of a face!!! Pat

Good morning everyone!
Pat- in order to see the face, do you have to look at the pictures upside down? I can see a face that way! Then again, I have never been any good at those optical illusion pictures!

Looking a second time, I can see a mad catfish swimming towards me in the clouds. Overactive imagination, perhaps?

Hello every one, found some visitors. Joost

Morning Everyone!
How's Emma doing Annie? Hope things are going well......don't forget to look after yourself too . Michael, your messy weather is coming our way (SE Virginia).....we are scheduled for a "sleet storm". I'm getting ready to go out for groceries.....everything grinds to a halt here when we get 1/2 an inch of anything.

Hello Gals, I boobed with the pic, they were supposed to be together. I can see the face too, wonder what Jenni would make of it. LOL.

I just looked at the picture again and saw Angela's catfish. I see that Blikje escaped again earlier on. Annie B.



Joost. Thanks for posting the visitors. My computer went up the creek and had to reboot. Ugh!!

mornin' everyone...nice captures...i can see the face with it the way it is...too early for me to try to find the catfish! just rolled out of bed, don't know what we are going to have in the way of weather today...overcast now...

can you see the 2 eyes in this pic?

Going out for dinner with friends, so I gotta go get ready. I shall pop back whenever I can. Annie B.

I won't be having fish either.

looks like a rainy day today,

Good Morning, Afternoon, or Evening, everybody!!

It looks like there has been a little rain in Paradise just now.....



Glad all of the 'early risers' got such great captures!!

Beautiful bright and sunny in Toronto this day!! Just don't go outside!! Temperature at -13 C with windchill at -19 !! C C Cold!!!

Bill

by the way Jake, today "De Telegraaf" (biggest newspaper here) had a very positive 3/4 page article about the charms of Bonaire, it's nature, it's restaurants etc.

Joost

Good morning, everybody. Its 9:06 am in Juneau, and it looks like its going to be a beautiful day. Can't show you that here, because, of course, this is a Bonaire Webcam BB. However, if you'll head over to the Community Chat board, I'm posting a pic of Juneau in the early morning. Nor a current one, but its looking exactly like that today. Currently, its 31F/-1C here.
Looks like not a whole lot of activity in Bonaire.

this one looks more familiar



I'll be off, nice day for everyone, Annie have a nice dinner

Joost

Guess, you're going to have to wait a bit longer. Tried uploading the pic, and it says its too big--81.8mb instead of the max 50mb. Need to figure out how to change that and I'm too new to this stuff. Oh well, as I said, later.

Dan, I use this to reduce the size. Sorry don't know how to make it a poper link. I am still learning stuff too. Annie B.

http://www.gifworks.com/cgi-bin/gifworks.pl?com=transfer_open

Just goes to show what I know. It is a proper link. Hope it is helpful. Annie B.

Trying the grey background again.

That's awesome Annie! What program do you use to create that effect? Karen

I'm outta here now. See you all later maybe. Annie B.

Karen, It is Paint Shop Pro 5. I am just experimenting with it. Annie B.

Gonna try a white background. Don't know which one I like best. Annie B.

wrong picture

Here are a few we missed...

...a tail


.....a coupla lil' guys

Wish I were there to clean the cam for you, Jake. It looks a little "smutzy" from here. I'm considering a career as a professional reef cam cleaner. I'll send you a resume. Margarite

Hello....? Anyone Home.....?

...missed the first pic with these fine visitors.

Lovely day today... about 12" of snow overnight. I have to admit it's absolutely beautiful, but it really makes looking at the cams difficult.

Of course, it doesn't help that my sister and her husband are headed to Hawaii in 5 days. :-)

Another pretty visitor....

Hello, Michael!

..still hangin'out. margarite

Lots of yellows and golds in this one

margarite

Nice!!! I like this sunset!!

Zowie!

hi margarite, just got back from running a bunch of errands..ugh! annie b, nice pics, very creative! here are a few more sunsets..it is a good one tonight!

I have been reading some posts concerning checking of luggage at Bonaire. We have been told by almost everyone to put locks on your luggage. If we do, are they saying these locks
will be cut off? I am not sure I understood
all that was being said about this. Can anyone
help with this?
Tks John & Nancy

Nice sunsets, Cyndi!
N and J, I never lock my luggage. and I take hundreds os dollars worth of dive gear. I don't take my diamonds and such (who needs them) . The security people need access to your luggage. Why lock it,anyway?

Good Evening, all!!

Nice captures through the day!!

James & Margarite, and Nancy & John -

This question came up in our group as well. I contacted our charter carrier, Skyservice, and asked about checked baggage. The Skyservice representative told me that all checked baggage SHOULD be locked, or secured in some fashion. This is to ensure no one can either insert or remove anything from your bags.

Most of our crew - 8 of us - use tie wraps to secure our checked bags, and we carry spares, plus a very small, no intrusive pair of nail clippers in carry on - just in case we need to open the checked baggage for any reason - and then be able to re-secure it.

Best suggestion - Check with your air carrier to be sure what their policy is.

Bill

bill, good advise. margarite, we always USED to lock our luggage (we have seen our luggage on the tarmack as we have taken off a few times and have had several friends had their luggage rifled through when traveling now) i hear that zip ties are the best thing next to locks.

Joost,

Any chance you could clip, scan, and e-mail us the article from De Telegraaf? I looked in their on-line archives and could not find it there...

Thanks!

Jake

Jake,
no problem, the photo's from the article are underneath, the article itself in Dutch is send as a separate mail to you. Since you grew up in Germany that should't be a problem otherwise Harrie can assist you Glad to help you. Joost

Jake, hope this is sufficient to you, if not let me know and I can give you my personal code to reach the online archives for the full article

Joost

Thanks, Joost. Between the above photos and your e-mail I think I have it all.

Jake

Jake, if you still want the original paperpage,which is still in our hands, I might send it to you via one of our relatives who actually is going to Bonaire early March.My daughter down there knows were you live so it's quite easy

Joost

Only if it's really easy for you to do it, Joost.

Thanks again!

Jake

no problem, glad to run you this service since you are doing an awful lot for us.

Joost

An alternative for securing baggage w/o locks are split rings, of steel or brass such as used on scuba gear. They are easily removed for inspections, are reusable and take long enough to undo to discourage casual theft, even more so than tie wraps.