Pam and I have felt an affinity with Bonaire since the minute we stepped off the plane a couple of years ago. Today while getting ready to dive in at Captain Don’s we met a couple from Malta. He reminded me so much of a friend of ours, a bon vivant named Jorge. He and his wife felt about Bonaire exactly as we did!

It’s just a wonderfully laid back place, with a very small population, in a rugged landscape, with amazing oceans teeming with fish. And fish we saw today, of course. Captain Don’s is a great place to snorkel, with an easy entrance and a sort of “dual reef” to the place.

You swim out to the drop off – not far, perhaps 150 meters – and watch all the action as the fish cavort on the edge of the wall. Huge schools of margates, bonefish, surgeonfish, chubbs, and others cruise slowly along. Then suddenly the hyper-active barjacks come looking for lunch and the little fish scatter.

This trip we’ve noticed some fish being kinda frisky – who knows? Maybe the release of Fifty Shades of Gray has got them worked up too, We saw a couple of porcupine fish seeming engaging in kissing and frisky behaviour, then Pam captured this movie of filefish doing the mating dance. (Well, it looks like they are doing the same mating dance that the gouramies we used to breed did.)

This picture of the face of a queen angel was tough to get. She hid down about twenty feet under a shelf of rocks. I dove down a couple times to get her, but they came out dark, so I turned on the forced flash. I think it turned out kinda cool. (and it was a LOT of work getting this sucker!)

One other thing we saw today that was unique. There were some jellyfish in the water, not a lot, but noticeable. While watching a scrawled filefish move effortlessly along, he suddenly started chowing down on one of them! Remarkable!

No restaurant reviews since we’ve eaten in every night so far. Food seems a bit pricier than I remember, but then food is more expensive at home too.