Under the salt pier in bonaire
Dec 18, 2013 18:55:17 #
Dec 18, 2013 19:11:59 #
Sorry about sending the same pic twice, here is the one I meant to send along with another.
Dec 19, 2013 04:36:22 #
That was close, did you shoot natural light, don't see any flash bounce off the silver sides like I got in Cayman's ? Been to Bonaire several times and always connect a week over to Curaçao to do Mushroom Forest.
Dec 19, 2013 07:18:37 #
Critter-Hunter wrote:
That was close, did you shoot natural light, don't see any flash bounce off the silver sides like I got in Cayman's ? Been to Bonaire several times and always connect a week over to Curaçao to do Mushroom Forest.
I used dual Sea and Sea YS-110a's, but set at a little below half power. First trip to Bonaire. I was a little surprised, this was the largest predator I saw. No Sharks, no large groupers or even large barracudas.
Dec 19, 2013 10:28:18 #
Yeah. most of the Caribbean is thin on large pelagic fish. Mostly eels, turtles, and critters. One big plus is the shore diving and doing 4 to 5 dives a day. You need to head to the South Pacific and strong currents to bring in the big boys with large teeth. One exception is in the Bahamas were they feed sharks, lots of action but not in their habitat. Even Roatan has a shark dive feeding them into a frenzy.
Dec 19, 2013 19:38:32 #
Critter-Hunter wrote:
Yeah. most of the Caribbean is thin on large pelagic fish. Mostly eels, turtles, and critters. One big plus is the shore diving and doing 4 to 5 dives a day. You need to head to the South Pacific and strong currents to bring in the big boys with large teeth. One exception is in the Bahamas were they feed sharks, lots of action but not in their habitat. Even Roatan has a shark dive feeding them into a frenzy.
My wife and I did the Aqua Cat in the Bahamas this Oct and they did do two shark feeds, but we still saw sharks at least on every other dive. I do love the South Pacific and will do the Beqa Lagoon Shark Dive in Fiji for the 4th time this March.
Interesting you mention Roatan. When I got my wife certified we did the open water portion in Roatan and to get her to do it I had to convince her there were no sharks there.
Dec 20, 2013 05:24:17 #
I did the Aqua Cat a couple years ago and have been to Fiji on Taveuni, never made it to Beqa Lagoon, but heard it was full of sharks. Please get back with a report on Beqa and a few pics
Dec 20, 2013 09:27:53 #
Critter-Hunter wrote:
I did the Aqua Cat a couple years ago and have been to Fiji on Taveuni, never made it to Beqa Lagoon, but heard it was full of sharks. Please get back with a report on Beqa and a few pics
I just tried to send a single picture from Fiji. I'm back home. I didn't click store original either thinking that might reduce the size. It took 17 min. and then reset the page. I live in Florida in the winter and N. CA in the summer and it looks like the only time I'll be able to send pics is when I'm on the west Coast.
I only stayed on Beqa Island once. The last 2 times has been at Volivoli. They just got one of the liveaboards from the Siren Fleet and I'm going to stay a week at the resort and then do a week on the Siren this time.
Dec 22, 2013 23:24:38 #
Dec 23, 2013 07:11:04 #
Lenf wrote:
Thank for posting the tarpon in our forum, hope to get to Bonaire next year.
If you go, don't stay at the Plaza. They've gone all inclusive and the food was horrible.
Jan 18, 2021 19:43:40 #
Wow! Beauty! Imagine what the tarpon told HIS friends 
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