Bonaire SCUBA pics, no one has dail-up anymore anyway right ;)

[fishome25]

<p>arrow crabs</p>

<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/arrow2.jpg" width="491" height="370"></p>

<p>this poor little cardinal got eaten by the anemone right after this picture</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/ane2.jpg" width="518" height="373"></p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/ane5.jpg" width="521" height="388"></p>

<p>great barracuda</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/cuda1.jpg" width="509" height="386"></p>
<p>spotted drum</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/drum3.jpg" width="425" height="307"></p>
<p>spotted moray</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/eel2.jpg" width="541" height="373"></p>

 

[fishome25]

<p>spotted moray</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/eel6.jpg" width="571" height="423"></p>
<p>large green moray with cleaner gobies</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/eel9.jpg" width="607" height="439"></p>
<p>someone please ID this moray</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/eel12.jpg" width="595" height="431"></p>
<p>snake eel </p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/eel15.jpg" width="555" height="410"></p>
<p>someone please id this moray, apparently its rarely ever seen</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/eel17a.jpg" width="600" height="482"></p>

 

[fishome25]

>goldentail moray</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/eel18.jpg" width="611" height="460"></p>
<p>me with a feather star</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/me3.jpg" width="422" height="560"></p>
<p>filefish in camouflage</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/file1.jpg" width="484" height="361"></p>
<p>goby</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/goby1.jpg" width="598" height="448"></p>
<p>royal gramma</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/gramma1.jpg" width="491" height="347"></p>
<p>grouper in gorgonians</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/grouper3.jpg" width="581" height="436"></p>
<p

 

[Zoa]

great pics!

 

[fishome25]

pretty grouper</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/grouper2.jpg" width="582" height="418"></p>
<p>slipper lobster</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/lobster3.jpg" width="366" height="485"></p>
<p>lettuce nudi</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/nudi2.jpg" width="476" height="332"></p>
<p>parrotfish sleeping in its mucus cacoon</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/parrot3.jpg" width="610" height="457"></p>
<p>parrotfish</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/parrot2.jpg" width="542" height="308"></p>
<p>sponge with commensal polyps at night</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/polyps2.jpg" width="453" height="330"></p>
<p>sponges</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/sponge2.jpg" width="500" height="661"></p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/sponge3.jpg" width="355" height="486"></p>
<p>

 

[fishome25]

trumpet fish pretending to be a gorgonian to get a meal</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/trumpet3.jpg" width="383" height="535"></p>
<p>bristle worm</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/worm1.jpg" width="521" height="348"></p>
<p>smooth trunkfish</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/trunk2.jpg" width="590" height="436"></p>
<p>hawksbill turtle</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/turtle2.jpg" width="386" height="472"></p>
<p>brittle stars on sponges at night</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/stars1.jpg" width="582" height="417"></p>

 

[Kigs]

awesome pictures!

 

[LCGoldman]

GREAT PICS!!

Tom,

How is it that you get to go on all these great trips all the time??

 

[cb747]

Sweet pics Tom

 

[fishome25]

Tom, How is it that you get to go on all these great trips all the time??

heh, no wife, no kids, and a drive to visit every coral reef there is to see!

 

[janco]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7540345#post7540345 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fishome25
heh, no wife, no kids, and a drive to visit every coral reef there is to see!

Don't worry, Tom, you'll probably get at least one wife and some kids along the way.

But great pix! Looks like you had loads of fun.

jan

 

[DgenR8]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7540194#post7540194 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fishome25

<p>bristle worm</p>
<p><img border="0" src="http://www.islandreefs.com/images/dive/worm1.jpg" width="521" height="348"></p>

I like bristle worms in my tank, but not THAT bristle worm!

 

[Spracklcat]

Wow Tom good job on the photos and it looks like you had a great few dives. Thanks for posting them for us stuck on land!

 

[Pleco420]

I am going to Aruba in July and plan on taking at least one dive. Can you reccomend a camera? Do the disposable ones work well?

 

[fishome25]

well unless you are very comfortable with yourself scuba diving I wouldn't recommend taking a camera. If you are comfortable diving, why on earth would you only do one dive?!

really those disposables are worthless for scuba, you might get one or 2 ok shots out of the whole camera snorkeling but I wouldn't count on it.

I think for a very basic U/W camera you'd spend about $500.

there are usually cameras available to rent at the scuba shop you get your tanks and gear from.

 

[terranova]

WOW.

Great pictures Tom, you're making me veryyyy jealous.

That parrotfish is sick!!!

 

[ralphie]

Real Great pictures Tom

I think it always so cool to see the critters we keep in their natural environment...

Ralph

 

[Pleco420]

I would spend the whole time underwater if I could. However, I have a wife and whatnot so it is hard to justify more than a dive or two.

I go on the 25 - 40 foot day dives. They are usually about 75 a trip

 

[Pleco420]

I will definitely look to rent a camera this time.

 

[billsreef]

Great pics Tom. Got a chuckle out of that cardinal fish. Tried to take a picture of a cardinal under the Town Pier, only to have a moray eat it just a millisecond before I triggered the shutter. Didn't get the pic of the cardinal, but a great pic of the eels face :lol: What camera/lens combo were you using?

Pleco420,

My routine is to take the early morning 2 tank dive while the wife and kid sleep in. Than I spend the rest of the day with them and ditch them for at least one night dive Keeps me happy and it keeps the family happy