Earlier in the week, the guys signed up to take the PADI Lionfish Hunter Distinctive Specialty course and today was the day! The course covered some theory and classroom work and then encompassed two dives – a shore dive at 18th Palm and a boat dive at Klein Bonaire. The Lionfish Hunter course involved getting … Continue reading Escape The Winter Trip 2020: Day 6
Escape The Winter Trip 2020: Day 5
We got a bit of a late start on the day, but, decided to make our first dive of the day at Hidden Beach. Hidden Beach is an unmarked dive site. The coast consists of coral stones, where you will find no beach, hence the name of this dive site. Among other seacritters, we saw … Continue reading Escape The Winter Trip 2020: Day 5
Escape The Winter Trip 2020: Day 4
Today was a pretty special day, as one of our dive buddies, Jon, was set to hit his 100 dives today. Since he requested to make his 100th dive at Karpata, we planned a drive up north a bit to dive some of the northern sites, making sure that Karpata would be the 100th dive … Continue reading Escape The Winter Trip 2020: Day 4
Escape The Winter Trip 2020: Day 3
We started our morning with a shore dive at Bonaire’s dive site #51, Invisibles. Invisibles, a low current, excellent visibility double reef, offers one of the only places divers have an opportunity to see garden eels in shallow water. Invisibles did not disappoint and we got a great opportunity to check out the garden eels! … Continue reading Escape The Winter Trip 2020: Day 3
Escape The Winter Trip 2020: Day 2
The plan was to sleep in, but, as three of the four people in our room were up before 7am, things got started pretty early for day one of legitimate vacation. Up and at’em we were! We headed to breakfast at the Tipsy Seagull and enjoyed our first morning in beautiful Bonaire. There’s just something … Continue reading Escape The Winter Trip 2020: Day 2
Escape The Winter Trip 2020: Day 1
The alarm went off at 1:30am. There’s not many times that I’m happy to hear an alarm at 1:30am, but, today was one of them. Today was FINALLY travel-to-Bonaire-for-two-weeks day! We left the house at 2:40amish, enroute to Newark Liberty International Airport to catch our 8:30am flight direct to Bonaire. When we left the house, … Continue reading Escape The Winter Trip 2020: Day 1
