2019-12-03 - Buddy's Reef, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
19.5m - 52 min - Dived with Buddy Beach & Dive Resort
too buoyant air, no nitrox available started S on reef @65 ft, then returned @ 35 ft saw coral nursery urchins, schoolmaster, French angel, bar jack
2019-12-03 - Buddy's Reef, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
20.1m - 50 min - Dived with Buddy Beach & Dive Resort
2 large tarpon, barracuda, coral shrimp, soapfish, black margate, creolefish, LOTS of creole wrasse went N @60 ft then returned @ 30 ft
2019-12-03 - Buddy's Reef, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
18.3m - 53 min - Dived with Buddy Beach & Dive Resort
night dive, small LED light used due to larger light bulb burning out LOTS of soapfish, followed around at end by two 5 to 6 ft tarpon lobster, cling crab
2019-12-04 - 1000 Steps, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
21.3m - 55 min - Dived with Buddy Beach & Dive Resort
lots of coral, close to shore (@10 ft) file fish, several types of hamlet
2019-12-04 - Rock Pile, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
21.9m - 60 min - Dived with Buddy Beach & Dive Resort
BIGGEST green moray ever! lots of different morays chub, tiger grouper, black durgeon, large crab
2019-12-04 - Sampler, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
15.5m - 47 min - Dived with Buddy Beach & Dive Resort
boat night dive on Klein Bonaire group of 12 plus, kind of crowded slipper lobster, lobster, octopus (video of all three) used video light for light, bright but spread out
2019-12-05 - Joanne's Sunchi, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
23.2m - 61 min - Dived with Buddy Beach & Dive Resort
seahorse!
2019-12-05 - Southwest Corner, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
22.3m - 59 min - Dived with Buddy Beach & Dive Resort
green moray eel
2019-12-05 - Pink Beach, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
28.7m - 54 min - Dived with Buddy Beach & Dive Resort
garden eels, puddingwife, sharptail eel, sand tilefish, large creolefish Long swim out to reef Only briefly @94 ft to look at garden eels, then return to about 65 ft for 1st half of dive
2019-12-06 - Hilma Hooker, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
28m - 34 min - Dived with Elisabeth Hoeffnagel from Buddy Dive
1st dive of Wreck certification toured around Hilma Hooker wreck, looked at cargo holds green moray
2019-12-06 - Hilma Hooker, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
26.5m - 33 min - Dived with Elisabeth Hoeffnagel from Buddy Dive
2nd dive of wreck certification mapped the wheelhouse area of the Hilma Hooker for purpose of eventual penetration
2019-12-06 - Hilma Hooker, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
24.4m - 35 min - Dived with Elisabeth Hoeffnagel from Buddy Dive
3rd dive in wreck certification worked on deployment of line reel, on outside of the Hilma Hooker wreck 2 palometas seen as leaving the site
2019-12-07 - Carl's Hill, Klein Bonaire, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
22.3m - 56 min - Dived with Buddy Beach & Dive Resort
fair amount of current on return part of dive
2019-12-07 - Hilma Hooker, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
25.9m - 38 min - Dived with Elisabeth Hoeffnagel from Buddy Dive
final wreck dive for certification penetrated Hilma Hooker x2 with reel & line placement became tangled in line at one point while inside, Cathy undid snag, not too much silting issues wreck certification complete!
2019-12-08 - Playa Funchi, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
25.3m - 51 min - Dived with Buddy Beach & Dive Resort
2 large green moray eels, several barracuda, including one that was >5 feet long dive from Washington Slagbaai NP shore
2019-12-08 - Bachelor's Beach, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
19.8m - 46 min - Dived with Buddy Beach & Dive Resort
spotted lobster, tigertail cucumber, a different wrasse, several tiger grouper
2019-12-09 - Sampler, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
20.1m - 60 min - Dived with Buddy Beach & Dive Resort
daytime look @ Sampler site
2019-12-09 - Salt Pier, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
13.7m - 57 min - Dived with Buddy Beach & Dive Resort
lots of metal debris, very little coral but HUGE schools of fish, like swimming in an aquarium 5 green sea turtles, green moray, barracuda, donkey dung sea cucumbers
2019-12-09 - Andrea 2, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
18.3m - 44 min - Dived with Buddy Beach & Dive Resort
dusk dive at sunset
2019-12-10 - Karpata, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
24.7m - 50 min - Dived with Buddy Beach & Dive Resort
ocean triggerfish very great site, entry not bad many sand canyons in reef, one of favorite sites
2019-12-10 - Rappel, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
21.9m - 57 min - Dived with Buddy Beach & Dive Resort
green turtle, green moray eel last dive & boat dive @ Bonaire sheer wall to dive along

Joshua Erdman
































































