We did an evening dive today. For the day we wandered and shopped and played in town. We stopped by the AB Dive shop early in the day to grab our tanks for the night dive. We had a great lunch at a place called Peanuts which has vegan meats along with lots of other delicious things. We had a fabulous coffee downtown and did a little shopping here and there. It was a fun day.
At 6:15 PM we met up at AB Dive with our dive master IVE (pronounced Eve) and her trainee Davie. They’re both Dutch, as most folks here are since it’s a Dutch island chain (duh). Her back story was working in high powered marketing in an erotic/spirituality business with her mom. Then she tried diving 3 years ago and never looked back. She says her office now has no walls :D. We followed them to the Ostracod dive site which was called The Rock and was on the south end of the west side of Bonaire. It’s out past the salt pier and along the salt works. One needs a very dark site for the Ostracods to light up. And light up they did! Several inch long strings of bio luminous “stuff” as far as the eye can see in a 360 degree circle. When they started to chill on the lighting Ive would flash her light and they’d start up again. It’s a bit of a mating dance. Following the show we did a little torch light tour of the reef there, seeing puffer fish, rays, sea urchin and anemone. It was pretty darn cool.
Then it was home, a shower and bed. My calves are KILLING me, but it’s pretty darn fun.
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