6/6/2022 Roughhead Blenny
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6/6/2022 Small Goby on coral.
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6/6/2022 Goldentail Eel
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6/6/2022 Frogfish
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6/6/2022 Octopus
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6/6/2022 Octopus
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6/6/2022 Ghost Featherduster
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6/6/2022 Christmas Tree Worm
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6/6/2022 Lettuce Sea Slug
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6/6/2022 Arrow Crab
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6/6/2022 Solitary Disk Coral
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6/6/2022 Trumpetfish. A lot of them have blue heads in Bonaire.
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6/6/2022 Goatfish
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6/6/2022 Caribbean squid
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6/7/2022 Sea Rod
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6/7/2022 Spotted Cleaner Shrimp
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6/7/2022 Spotted Cleaner Shrimp
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6/7/2022 Ghost Featherduster
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6/7/2022 Christmas Tree Worm
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6/7/2022 Lionfish
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6/8/2022 Sea Rod, with Stoplight Parrotfish.
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6/9/2022 Camera gear area before loading up the boat.
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6/9/2022 Full set of cameras on the boat. Mine is at the bottom, labeled CJ.
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6/9/2022 My camera didn't have the only big dome on the boat. Heck, it wasn't even the only D850 on the boat - there were three!
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6/9/2022
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6/10/2022 Longsnout Seahorse
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6/10/2022 Longsnout Seahorse
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6/10/2022 Trumpetfish
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6/10/2022 Smooth Trunkfish
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6/10/2022 Smallmouth Grunts
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6/10/2022 Anemone
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6/10/2022 Juvenile French Angelfish
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6/10/2022 Bearded Fireworm
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6/10/2022 Bearded Fireworm
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6/10/2022 Redlip Blenny
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6/10/2022 Redlip Blenny
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6/10/2022 Redlip Blenny
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6/11/2022 Sand Diver
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6/11/2022 There is a Sea Fan Blenny peeking out from under this Christmas Tree Worm.
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6/11/2022 Azure Vase
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6/11/2022 Sea Rod detail #1
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6/11/2022 Sea Rod detail #2 - the polyps are closing
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6/11/2022 Sea Rod detail #3 - all closed
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6/11/2022 Sea Rod detail. This coral is in a class called Octocorals.
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6/11/2022 Christmas Tree Worm with Sea Fan Blenny
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6/11/2022 Christmas Tree Worm
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6/11/2022 Common sponge, uncommon lighting
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6/11/2022 Christmas Tree Worm with Sea Fan Blenny
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6/11/2022 Christmas Tree Worm
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6/11/2022 Christmas Tree Worm
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6/11/2022 Christmas Tree Worm
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6/12/2022 Buddy diver at the wreck of the Hilma Hooker.
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6/12/2022 Buddy diver at the wreck of the Hilma Hooker.
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6/12/2022 Buddy diver at the wreck of the Hilma Hooker.
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6/12/2022 Buddy diver at the wreck of the Hilma Hooker.
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6/12/2022 Buddy diver at the wreck of the Hilma Hooker.
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6/12/2022 Buddy diver at the wreck of the Hilma Hooker.
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6/12/2022 Buddy diver at the wreck of the Hilma Hooker.
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6/12/2022 Buddy diver at the wreck of the Hilma Hooker.
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6/12/2022 Six foot barracuda by the wreck of the Hilma Hooker.
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6/12/2022 Tarpon at Buddy diver at the wreck of the Hilma Hooker.
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6/12/2022
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6/12/2022 Practicing strobe placement on the house reef at the Anchor.
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6/12/2022 Practicing strobe power on the house reef. Tubular sponge.
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6/12/2022 Smallmouth Grunts
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6/13/2022
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6/13/2022 Buddy diver Simon.
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6/13/2022
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6/13/2022 Buddy diver Christine
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6/13/2022 Buddy diver Jocelyn
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6/13/2022 Buddy diver Jocelyn
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6/13/2022 Sea Fans
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6/13/2022
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6/14/2022
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6/14/2022 At the Salt Pier
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6/14/2022 Salt Pier
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6/14/2022 Salt Pier
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6/14/2022 Salt Pier
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6/14/2022 Salt Pier
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6/14/2022 Salt Pier
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6/14/2022 Salt Pier
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6/14/2022 Salt Pier
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6/14/2022 Salt Pier
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6/14/2022 Salt Pier
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6/14/2022 Salt Pier
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6/14/2022
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6/14/2022 Salt Pier
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6/14/2022 Octopus
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6/14/2022
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6/14/2022 At a divesite up north there were a lot of orange sponges. These sponges flouresce, making them stand out from the surroundings. Other sponges do this as well.
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6/14/2022 Azure Vase, another fluorescing sponge.
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6/14/2022 Azure Vase
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6/14/2022 Sea Turtle
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6/14/2022 Sea Turtle
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6/14/2022 Sea Turtle
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6/14/2022 Sea Turtle
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6/14/2022 Sea Turtle
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6/14/2022
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6/14/2022
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6/14/2022
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6/14/2022
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6/14/2022
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6/14/2022
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6/14/2022
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6/14/2022
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6/15/2022 Just a view under the dock where we all get on the boats or start short dives. This is one of the popular practice areas for certain photography shots.
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6/15/2022 Just practicing my photography on the house reef.
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6/15/2022
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6/15/2022 One afternoon I went out and practiced selfies against the sun.
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6/15/2022 How one gets in and out for a shore dive at the house reef of the Divi Flamingo resort.
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6/16/2022 Buddy divers Donna and Kim. Turns out they were from Phoenix too! (Apache Junction).
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6/16/2022
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6/16/2022
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6/16/2022 School of Blue Tangs.
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6/16/2022
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6/16/2022 With a big school of Blue Tangs circling the dive site, trying to photograph them was popular.
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6/16/2022
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6/16/2022 See-thru Sea Fan
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6/16/2022
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6/16/2022
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6/16/2022 Buddy diver Kevin chasing Blue Tangs
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6/16/2022
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6/16/2022 Longsnout Seahorse
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6/17/2022 Sea Rod
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6/17/2022 Christmas Tree Worm
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6/17/2022 Sexy Shrimp
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6/17/2022 Arrow Crab
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6/17/2022 Azure Vase
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6/17/2022 Christmas Tree Worm
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6/17/2022 Christmas Tree Worm
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6/17/2022 Christmas Tree Worm
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6/18/2022 The famous Salt Pier above water. One of the resort's dive boats is moored on the left.
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6/18/2022 Salt in the background to be loaded on a ship via the Salt Pier.
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6/18/2022 Bonaire paints rocks instead of using signs. The short dive sites are labeled like this one, which is next to the white slave huts, hence the name.
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6/18/2022 White slave huts
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6/18/2022
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6/18/2022
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6/18/2022 Orange slave huts
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6/18/2022 The orange monument marks the location of one of the slave sites where slaves loaded salt onto boats. Different colors marked different sites.
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6/18/2022
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6/18/2022
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6/18/2022 Before this lighthouse was built there were a lot of shipwrecks along the south coast of Bonaire. Seven different villages would gather on the coast after storms to salvage wreckage. Each village claimed a section of shoreline and marked it with a color.
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6/18/2022
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6/18/2022
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6/18/2022
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6/18/2022
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6/18/2022
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6/18/2022 This monument of seven colors represents seven villages that claimed sections of the coastline to salvage wreckage after storms.
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6/18/2022
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6/18/2022 Cactus fences were very popular in Bonaire.
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6/18/2022 On the windy southeast coast there is a sheltered bay perfect for windsurfing. A windsufing school was doing a great business there.
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6/18/2022
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6/18/2022 I tried to approach a herd of goats for a photo. They were having none of it.
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6/18/2022 Donkeys can be friendly.
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6/18/2022
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6/18/2022 Flamingos inhabit salty ponds all over Bonaire.
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6/18/2022 When we rolled down the window, this donkey came looking for a treat.
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6/18/2022 Carrot?
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6/18/2022
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6/18/2022 More flamingos, this time north of Rincon.
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6/18/2022 There are a lot of donkeys.
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6/18/2022 There is a good looking national park on the north side of the island. We should have come much earlier to have time to visit though, so we just looked around the visitor center.
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6/18/2022
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6/18/2022 Out in the parking lot, this iguana went under a car for shade. They carefully backed out, but he looks to have done this a lot and wasn't perturbed.
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6/18/2022 Once a car wasn't protecting him, this iguana got a little hissy. He whipped his tail at me when I got too close.
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