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  • April Leonard's trip Bonaire 2019
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2019-05-26 - Yellow Submarine, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

21.8m - 49 min - Dived with Dive Friends Bonaire

This was the checkout dive for this trip. I used this dive to try out my new camera setup. The strobe wasn't so useful - I'll probably only use it for certain dives. I also felt over-weighted - I'll use less weight on the next dive.

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2019-05-26 - Weber's Joy, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

29.3m - 55 min - Dived with Dive Friends Bonaire

This was a fun dive - we saw a lot of cool things: a juvenile trunkfish, a juvenile drum, a couple of arrow crabs, a huge green moray, and, at around 100ft., there was a large pole sticking out of the sand. In the shallows we saw a juvenile emerald parrot fish, a rosy razorfish, a juvenile trumpetfish, and several lettuce sea slugs.

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2019-05-27 - The Lake, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

23m - 57 min - Dived with Dive Friends Bonaire

I used this dive to practice macro photography. I got a nice picture of an arrow crab and a couple small fish. We saw a huge blue-spotted cornetfish. I saw a couple blennies - I think red lip blennies - one was black and one was white. In the shallows we saw a lion fish, some juvenile yellowtail damsels, a juvenile French angel, and a small spotted moray.

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2019-05-27 - Vista Blue, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

25.1m - 46 min - Dived with Dive Friends Bonaire

I was practicing macro photography again on this dive. I got a nice picture of a cleaning shrimp. I saw several pretty wrasses. We saw a small sea turtle and a large moray swimming along the reef. In the shallows we saw a couple flamingo tongues.

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2019-05-27 - Something Special , Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

19m - 39 min - Dived with Dive Friends Bonaire

I tried to take pictures but there was some problems with the settings I couldn't figure out so I gave up. We saw a couple sharptail eels and a lot of purple fish - blue chromis and creole wrasses - it felt like we were in an aquarium. During the safety stop we was some squat anemone shrimp. I saw some small arrow crabs - I've been seeing a lot of them on this trip so far. We saw a flounder just as we were exiting the dive.

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2019-05-28 - Karpata, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

21.7m - 63 min - Dived with Dive Friends Bonaire

This is always a great dive. We saw a small eels just as we were getting in the water. On the dive we saw several lettuce sea slugs, a huge banded coral shrimp, a scorpion fish, a lionfish, and a barracuda. On the way out I saw a couple small palometa. During the surface interval I fed a muffin to a couple of iguanas.

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2019-05-28 - Nukove, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

28.6m - 54 min - Dived with Dive Friends Bonaire

This dive site took a long time to get to with a good portion of the drive on dirt roads. Since this site is so remote, not a lot of people dive it and it was obvious from the condition of the reef. This spot had some of the healthiest and most abundant coral I've seen in Bonaire. We saw a large moray swimming, a couple pudding wife fish, and a peacock flounder swimming in the shallows. There were big coral heads all the way up to the shore here.

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2019-05-28 - Something Special, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

11m - 34 min - Dived with Dive Friends Bonaire

We did this as a night give - it was great! We saw a couple spotted morays, a sharptail eel, a tiny octopus, and a couple tarpon hunting in the shallows.

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2019-05-29 - Salt Pier, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

15.7m - 61 min - Dived with Dive Friends Bonaire

Salt pier is always a great dive but it was even better this time because we saw a group of 20+ squid on the way in and 15 of so on the way out. We also saw tarpon, banded coral shrimp, queen angel fish, and large groups of grunts and snappers. On the was in we saw a few palometa.

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2019-05-29 - Villa Vos House Reef, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

19.6m - 43 min - Dived with Dive Friends Bonaire

We dived outside our Airbnb in preparation for a possible night dive tomorrow. We saw a large reef squid which we swam around with for 10-15 mins. We also saw several fire worms, a queen angel, a white spotted file fish, several banded coral shrimp, an arrow crab, and a puffer fish in the shallows.

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2019-05-30 - Chogogo, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

29.9m - 46 min - Dived with Dive Friends Bonaire

This dive had a lot of coral close to the shore and a lot of soft coral around the drop off. We saw quite a few turtles here. This reef had a finger structure with sandier regions between the fingers. On the dive we saw a sting ray and some black coral.

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2019-05-30 - Salt City, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

27.2m - 54 min - Dived with Dive Friends Bonaire

The entry and exit on this site was difficult - but it was a great dive. It was a double reef with a sandy bottom between the reef where there were lots of garden eels. There were several large orange elephant ear sponges and barrel sponges. We saw a sting ray, a large green moray swimming along the reef, and a small grouper.

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2019-05-30 - Bari Reef, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

19.6m - 52 min - Dived with Dive Friends Bonaire

On this dive we saw some cowfish, a scrawled file fish, some tarpon, and a golden tail moray. Justin tried to jiu jitsu me as we were diving.

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2019-05-31 - Hilma Hooker, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

25.9m - 45 min - Dived with Dive Friends Bonaire

We've done this dive twice before but this was the best because there were relatively few people here and the visibility was good. There were several large tarpon around the wreck.

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2019-05-31 - Red Beryl, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

21.3m - 37 min - Dived with Dive Friends Bonaire

This is similar to other southern dive sites - a pretty reef with a lot of soft corals. We saw a juvenile queen angel. I started this dive with a tank low on air and the o-ring was leaking a bit so this was a short last dive of the trip. We used the safety sausage coming up because the kite surfers were coming close to our exit point.

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