Good morning everybody (and Good night Dan) . Hard to wake up this morning, the night really was short. Just two more little days enjoying my vacation and I'll be back working . Not even the slicest image to post, too early... Anybody joining for a coffee break ?

A very good morning to you too martine.
To add a little confusion to the BT-timezone: I am allready having lunch :-)
Enjoy your last two days of your holiday, Paris must be beautiful in this bright spring sunny weather.
BTW , did you have any problems starting the new thread? Puter kept freezing up on me.I couldn't even get to the cams anymore( not like anything happend there, except for an UFO passing by at around 02.00 Bonairan time!!!)
/{image}streetcam by night
{image}streetcam by night

Sometimes even caffeïne doesn't work":-)

Hi Jos, good morning and enjoy your lunch. I'll be leaving soon to meet Jean Paul at the bank and have my lucnh with him. Afterwards, I'll be shopping in the mall.
No I didn't get any problem to open the thread this morning. But I fear you are doing wrong to post the pics. You have to do like this
\ oriented that way, then write image, then open the bracket { insert your saved pic and close the bracket } No blank space between \ and image and {pic}. Try again, we want to see these pics :o)

Thank's for the lecture martine;-))))
Life is a struggle, when I download the campictures , they are in Bitmap, I have to convert them to JPEG before I can Upload them , no wonder I'm messing things up.
Oh , and the picture I did send was intended to be black, like the name of the picture says.
It's no fun starting to work when there's nothing to be seen on Bon.
Enjoy your lunch/shopping .

Morning Martine and Jos, sjoske remember to use the \ button instead of the / button

Craaaak, the day has broken. Need to go, catch you later.

good morning Bonaire, and to all our friends at the other side of the ocean
Joost

Good Morning Jos, Martine and Joost! Beautiful morning, too bad I have a cold drive into work today! I am doing something "fun" at work today so the day should go by quickly!

Is someone hiding?

Hi Eileen, have a nice day, it's sunny around here with temperatures going around 14C

that's Blikie laying down on the street

Have a great day everyone! 14C! I am definately ready for spring! Hope to see some divers tonight!

morning eileen, martine and joost,
geez thanks joost!,
Backhand like backslash has always been my soft spot :-)
Eileen : something "fun" at work ???

Wish me luck this afternoon , I'm gonna use my Cam to film the cam who is gonna show me/us our future son or daughter ( or both or two of each)
jos.
yellow skies over Bonaire?!

Hi Jos, congratulations, my daughter has a video of approx. 30 minutes which shows her child, ain't that expensive to order one.

Hi joost,
I bring my own camera, tripod and all.
They didn't mind with the first one so we'll try again.
By the way , love your personal quote!!!
little fishies and beautiful colours

visitors, and Jos wish you have a good catch this afternoon with your cam

Here come's the clean up expert

watch the reef cam in a few minutes

Jake did you call for assistance?

look's like Jake started a diving school

sorry to heavy, try again

here some shots from Dr. Jake

Good Morning, or afternoon ALL

While this was going on at the beach....


this was in front of the reefcam



Cold today, -19 C with windchill to -26

Bonaire in 18 days!!

I hope I don't freez solid before then!!

Bill

Hi Bill, in the sun here it's nearly 14C

and here it's nearly 29C

Good morning everyone! Only four more days and I can join everyone else on the island! I can't wait especially since it is -18 F without the windchill today! I am so excited I can't stand it!!! How is everyone else today?

Good morning, everyone. Dive boat on the scine.

Hi Angela and John. There must be a least a dozen of divers out there, plus the newies, so guess they are having a party down there:0

Meanwhile, are these our 9:26 divers coming back on southcam?

Guess so.



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it's only the first group, I'm off now for a while so leave it up to you, I did my job
Joost

Nice morning dive. Now for a quick brunch.

And some gate conversation. My monitor is too dark to identify the face.

New gate action.

Tough Decision.

OOps! Sorry! '-((

A late diver?

Where'd he/she/it go?

Sorry, wrong capture. This is what I meant.

Lots of action and it's only quarter to 11 over there! The diver that John posted in the water resembles a rocket getting ready to launch out of the water (I think I read too much Clive Cussler! )

Jake says good-bye to the dive party. And activity on all the cams at the same time.

mornin' all! geez, lots of activity this morning...looks like the invasion of Normandy! martine is at lunch and has missed it all! jos, congratulations, and good luck on your filming! here are more visitors...they left the gate open right in front of them...hmmm...

Not my group at the street cam.
Where, oh, where can they be?

better call inspector kleuso (sp) on this one...someone is gearing up or gearing down...can't tell if he is wet or dry!

Hi there!

Final group shot.

another...


now a lady with a towel...


and they are gone...wooooshh....

john, i don't know how you got that post inbetween mine! has the snow melted from your porch?

We have fish (including bluebeard), now where are the divers? I've got to leave in a couple minutes.

Hi Cynde. Three days of 45-50 degree weather, plus some shovelling has taken most of the porch's snow. A bit left where the deep drift was. Still about 8 inches left on the lawn.

Well, still not much out on the reef. Satchmo in the distance. And with that I've got to go. Find those divers Cynde, Angela, or whoever is left.

Just as I started to get up from the computer. And I can't stay to follow up. Someone grab them.



(Message edited by c_photo on February 25, 2003)

Couldn't pass up the divers. Now I'm late.

Thank you Jake, for cleaning the reefcam!
I know any one of us would willingly volunteer to visit regularly to do the job....it's just that life and a lack of winning the lottery gets in our way! Cheers!
Jill

[I meant to post part of this here instead of in the current Community Chat thread, so here's a semi-dupe of the other message.]

I was cleaning the ReefCam this morning and checking our new mooring lines, which the folks at Buddy Dive were nice enough to supply AND install last night. Kudos to Buddy Dive!

The other folks heading in were fellow New Hampshire-ites down for a visit. One of them is the husband of a friend we hadn't seen in maybe 8 years or so - he just joined our old dive club in New Hampshire, and our name came up as the hosts for the club Web site. When he mentioned "Jake on Bonaire" to his wife (he had no idea who we were) in passing, she made the connection and located us. Had a nice lunch with them on Sunday.

Jake

PS Jill - those oriental stir-fry sauces you brought us recently are fantastic. Just had the spicy sesame sauce with onions and tuna last week. Yum!

where did this one come from?

Hello all,
Thanks for the nice pics and thanks Jake for the cleaned cam. I am just coming back and found this nice surgeon fish pic. Do we already have a surgeonfifh named ? If not I suggest PITANGUI ( a very famous brazilian aesthetic surgeon ), or Dr NO, or Dr BARNARD. These are the only surgeons names I can recall. Perhaps you could find some other names and we could vote ?
I had a nice lunch with Jean Paul and while he returned to work I was spending momey shopping (I love spending momey shopping). It was so nice to walk in the sun. Nearly 6 PM, must think about my dinner and I don't feel very inspired tonight.

Martine-
What about Dr. Xiaus (from Planet of the Apes)? I don't know if he's a surgeon, but Dr. Xiaus has a nice ring to it, I think!!

(Pronounced Zay-us)

Yeah, Angela, that's great. I now recall it and we write it Zaius in France.
I vote for this one. What do you think of it gang ? Still lack of inspiration for my dinner :o(

Good afternoon/evening everyone!
Thanks for posting all the great pictures. Busy days here getting ready to go :-), not enough time to chat. 6 days left for me :-)!
Thanks for cleaning the cam, Jake, it looks great!!

Hi Martine and Angela,
I vote for Dr. Xiaus too!! I am glad you had a nice lunch, Martine, it sounds really nice in Paris. Are your feet on the ground, Angela?
It is very cold and windy here back below 0 tonight. I am ready for Bonaire and spring won't be far when we get home :-)!! Hooray!!!

Mary Lou-
Yeah, unfortunately my feet are still on the ground. YUCK! I can't wait, four more days. In three days we leave to drive to Chicago. I'm getting lonely without Scott around, too!
Packed yet?

Martine- we could just name him that anyway since we haven't gotten any feedback from anyone yet (sort of a majority rule thing! and since we're here, we are the majority!)

Too bad all of the activity on the camera's went on this morning, hey? Sort of boring now!

Good morning/afternoon/evening, everyone. Just 9:00 a.m. here. I'm finally at a point at work where I can, at least, say, "hi." I'll be so glad when I retire in a few months and can spend a little more time Bonaire dreaming.

In the meantime, here's one fish I caught.


Have a nice day, all.
Martine, stand by, I have a recipe that may interest you for tonight! I'll post it in Community Chat.

Jake - glad you like those sauces! Make a note of your favourite(s) and tell me...we can bring more in December! (I know, December's a long way off, but we've booked it and are already looking forward to it. When it's minus 25C outside you have to look ahead!!)
Cheers, Jill

Hi Angela,
Yes, I am packed, dive gear all in the carry on, bag of dry food stuff, clothes all set. We drive to Boston on Sunday, fly out Monday. Can't wait, with the temperature here I am ready to go now!!
Good afternoon, Dan

Mary Lou-
I am at the dive shop right now, getting ready to get my gear into a bag to bring home so I can pack tonight. It's below zero out again, so I can't wait to get there! We drive to CHicago on Friday and fly out at 6:00 am on Saturday (who loves getting to the airport at 3:30 am? For Bonaire, anything!)

Angela,
I agree with you, for Bonaire, anything! What time do you get to Bonaire? We fly out Monday 12:11pm and arrive 8:45pm. Short stop in San Juan to get us in the Carribean mood. I might have to go home and put on my sundress for awhile tonight.

Packing ? Diving bag ? Airport ? Flight ? Angela and Mary Lou, why do I feel depressed when I read your messages...
Enjoy as much as you can :o) Don't forget to tell us how you look like underwater to make sure we won't miss you on the reef cam.
Well gang, I feel sleepy now. I had a short night, so I think I'm going to bed now.
Please post nice sunset pics for me. See you tomorrow.
Hi, don't forget to give your votes for the surgeon fish.
Night night

Hey, don't you see a happy gorilla on my last post ?

Back for a minute. Some gate action at Jake's Drive-thru.

Afternoon "hello" at the gate... and afternoon bye bye from me.

happy gorilla?

maybe, if someone would find some bandages for his knuckles ;)

doesn't look like i'll ever find the discipline to get back to work ;(

oh well,

Decisions, Decisions!



Guess picking a sign was too tough to go through with.

Got to get back to work. Will leave with another of those "almost" fish shots.

Sorry to torment you with our trip talk, Martine, and I do see a gorilla in your picture!!

John, do you live anywhere near Mildred Street in Hull?

Hi, everybody, the 10:12:06 capture at the street was me talking to Jake. I was supposed to meet Bas (who lives down the street from Jake and Linda) for a dive, and to help prepare fish soup for the big BT BBQ on Saturday. Well, Bas wasn't there, so I just stopped to see Jake and Linda instead. When I arranged it with him, I neglected to tell him how to reach me if there was a problem.

Hope I'll see him tonight at Gibi's for the Tuesday regular BT get together, as I definitely want to make sure he makes the coconut fish soup --- it's delish...

Josie

Josie
looking forward to the minute's

josie, too bad about the dive with bas...saturday bbq??? will the party cam be up jake?

oh, jake, i think you are becoming addicted to KK's...guess it is fair play, we are addicted to the cams...you can be addicted to KK's

oh, and for all of you that are going to bon soon...i have absolutely NOTHING to say to you...phhfftt!

I scoured the archives and came up with these.



Going up.

Hi folks, did you forget to post the sunset ?

Hi Annie,
How are you going tonight ?
See, the surgeon fish has adopted the cam. What do you think about Angela's Dr Zaius name suggestion ?

Sounds nice.

My last post, time to switch off here.

Good evening Martine. I am feeling a little tired tonight. I will never remember that name, let alone spell it. LOL. I shall put my thinking cap on.

Did these like this. Can't be bothered to keep scrolling down the long thread. LOL

eeeek!! that last post makes me feel seasick.LOL

Annie B! Beautiful! I would just love to outside to my backyard, and just go for a dive! or swim!
Busy day today! Good Night to all going to bed!

thanks for the sunsets martine and annie b!