Good morning everybody,
It is another sunny and beautiful day over Paris. I'll be able to work bare armed on the atrmac today. Well, must hury nown, have a nice day all. Annie, you are the cams keeper
Catch you later gang, enjoy your day.

Blimey Martine, you are up early!! Grey and dull here in Manchester, England, tho' dry. Too early for cams yet. Over to you Annie

Good Morning! It's cold, and we still have snow on the ground. I was hoping for the snow to disappear this morning!

Beautiful Colours!

Wave coming in...

Time for work. I hope everyone has a great day!

good morning/afternoon to everyone, Charlotte coming up
Joost

is Jake going for a cam clean?

yep, thanks Jake,

still not satisfied or changing a lense?

on his way back, once again thanks Jake
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on his way back, once again thanks Jake

I knew I forgot one and posted one double

beautiful morning and another nice day

The water seems to be getting colder. My dive watch (a Suunto Mosquito) read 75 degrees Fahrenheit at the ReefCam when I did the above cleaning. BRRRRRR!!!!

The water is filled with life this morning - reducing visibility significantly. Probably a side effect of the colder water too. Saw all sorts of cool little jelly-strands - 1 to 4 inches long (non-stinging as best I could tell). Fish were loving it all too - saw lots of Sgt. Majors and surgeon fish in the top part of the water column.

Down at the bottom were schools of very young brown chromis - hundreds, if not thousands, of them. Also saw another unusual thing - a handful of trumpet fish all nose down right above the rubble area, all apparently waiting for easy means - looked like a mini-forest of trumpet fish.

One last thing - caught a look at Slim - he's a yellow nose goby, not a sharknose as we thought. Mildly different species.

Back to my warmer grind out of the water... If you're coming to Bonaire soon, bring extra temperature protection for the water...

Jake

Jake, that means a difference of 1,6 degree F,with the cam temp. so actual it's around 23C for us. That's the average pool temperature here(inside).
Found this mini trumpet fish


(Message edited by joossie1 on March 10, 2003)

Good Morning / Afternoon All

Jake, thanks for the clean up, fish report....BUT you didn't have to lower the temperature!!

Not to worry though, we Canadians are tough (sorta)

No fish so thought I'd put up a tranquill beach shot.

Jake, I'm picking up Linda's Bras D'or today...
anything for you, Yana or Bas (Cadbury Creme Eggs??), or the criters - Milk Bones, Kitty treats??

We're down to 5 days. Temperature here today - -12 C with windchill to -22 !!

The water in Bon is still warmer!!

Bill

Hi Bill, got a fish for you

and another one

I just checked to verify the two sensors underwater are showing matching values, and they are. The new sensors we installed recently are calibrated. The temperature they read will be affected by their position in the water (a bit shallower than the camera itself) and by any solar heating of the probe itself, or surrounding substrate.

The other source of discrepancy would be the differing calibration between the gauge Jake was reading, and the sensors installed on the reef.

The sensors are reading slightly over 25C.

My guess overall is both gauges were correct, and Jake was treated to the cool waters upwelling from the deep. Guess we'll see him in his drysuit next time he cleans the camera!

morning all, thanks for the update jake...geez jake, you are edging down to our temps! el nino is kicking in and just checked, our water temp is 61F! I think Daniel may be right!

ok, something in the background (fish shadows)...either that or i am not awake yet!

007


(Message edited by cyndelee on March 10, 2003)

must be running from the bad guys....

slips into the distance quickly...go james go!

that's exactly why i got a retractable clip for my flashlight - try to check your wristwatch or squeeze your nose or whatever with that thing hangin' off your wrist ;)

the guy does look warm however;)

one before we say goodbye

hard to get back to the boat

lol bob, however, i don't think that is a flashlight...it LOOKS like a flashlight, but if you turn the switch it becomes a mini propulsion system with which to make a fast exit

cynde , been watching Octopussy last weekend???
ROTFL
jos.
( 28 days and counting)

Good morning, everyone, from the furthest West BTer. I always feel like Johnny-Come-Lately. All the excitement's already over. At this point, all four cams are "empty," except, of course, for the beautiful sunshine.
We have beautiful sunshine in Juneau, also, but its currently (8:20 am) 17f/-8c. Not exactly the same as Bon.
Jake, you've been babied by warm water too long. You need to come to Juneau. I'll reindoctrinate you to cold water diving!

Good Morning/Afternoon everyone.

DIVER ALERT

LOVELY CAM ADVERTISING

nice dive set!

the coiled lanyard clip that fellow is using (on his camera) is a good choice for light to medium gear;)

Sorry - I'm a little slow on the draw today.. TOO much to do, but only TWO days before we arrive! I sure hope the water warms up by then!

Stef

bob, what are you on today? can't you see that is dr. evil chasing 007 with his underwater ray gun? it has to be attached that way for security purposes...if he were to detach it, it would explode immediately as to pose no threat to the coral reef...

oh boo hoo loo hoo;)

you know i can't see...

when does the babe in the skimpy swim suit show up?

Here are a some from earlier:

beautiful wonderful warm and soothing sunshine


Wish I were there!!!! Even if the water is a tad cold.

Here is a cutie tang

looks like 007 got him!

bob, i think that the girls in bathing suits (talk to wally about the dutch ones) are waiting for you to arrive on the island

her...007 always get the tang;)

How's this for luck...


Pop back in to see what's going on and this guy is staring at me!!!

Bill

and another one - minus the fish!!


Bill

Carmen....your fish shot...
Would that be "Tang, You're it!!! "

oops, sorry bluetang

... and another couple or 3...


Steff....Hope we'll be able to get together at Gibis on Tuesday!!

Bill

ok, will someone please help dr. evil, he seems to be just lurking, obviously waiting for help to arrive...

Everybody is playing in the distance....

Come closer!!



Bill

Looks like he's going away.

A little closer

After 007 here's ET. Wanna go home I suppose...
Hello everybody,
Geez, seems you had a nice day and a freshly cleaned cam. Thanks Jake, are you sure you do not need an permanent cam cleaner ? I have my own long wetsuit, do not fear to dive in a 23°C water and I am quite clever for sweeping and dusting.

He is the mystery diver.

lol bill

looks like Charlotte is trying to lure the diver closer...



Bill

No, No, come back, come back!

Gone. If we set up a diver web cam site, we'll have to name him "The Lurker."

Try this once more

What? Back again?

He's hardly moved!

dan, that last one looks like he is standing on his head! maybe he got his fins caught in the mooring line?

Or trying to look like Satchmo?

Well...
Here one minute ...

and gone the next..... Go figure!!

Wonder if this might be Mary Lou's crew???

Bill

Don't know, but looks like he's gone for good. Guess I'll betake myself to lunch.

A little late, aren't you Dan??

I make it 1:15 PM for you....

Bill

Don't forget folks, Mary Lou is on island now, Stef going in a couple of days and I (we ) will be going on Saturday YIPPEE!!!

Keep an eye or two out for all the divers.

My schedule is getting pretty heavy - have a lot of desk to clear before Friday, so I hope you can help out...

Bill

Bill, Alaska is on Alaska Time which is one hour earlier than Pacific. So, it was only 12:15. Still a bit late, but not that late.
Dan

good night everyone, here some visitor's who might have been missed

Annie pls help, your sunsets seems to be the best

Annie, the rest is up to you

Joost. Sorry I wasn't here today. I have been trying to catch up on cleaning the house. Annie B.

Couldn't miss that one. Folks, I have been wandering in tha arcjives from 2000 and found pretty nice pics I would swap in the reefcam dwellers page.
Jake, please, can you wait till friday to fix it. I'm off wednesday and i'll have plenty of tima to do it.
I also noticed there are a lot of funny and many other crispy pics of these fish and other not mentioned. What do you think about an additional thumbnail (could be called miscellaneous), or we leave it at it is ?
I think that's all for tonight. Good night all.

Thanks for posting all the nice pictures everybody. I see I missed an eventful day. Annie B.

Hi Annie, GMTA, as usual
Hope everything allright with you.
Good night

Hello and Goodnight Martine. I trust you had a good day. Gonna try something out here. Annie B.

Night Divers.

Don't know if I like the big bubble so much.

Night night everybody. Annie B.

There is a night diver near the reef cam

Martine - no problem for Friday - I just had a load of work dumped in my lap, so I'm swamped with other things anyway.

Bill & Stef - we do have a couple of last minute shopping items... I'm posting in Everything Else.

Jake

Whoa! There's that alien again!

Good Morning/afternoon Dan, and goodnight, 1.20am here in the uk. Hope you have a good day, and I hope I got the time difference correct. See you tomorrow, or is that tomorrow for me, or today for you. ROTFL Annie B.