We're at the end of our second week and have been diving everyday after breakfast and taking care of business and exploring the island in the afternoon. We've seen reefs covered with coral gardens and schools of brightly colored tropical fish along with big groupers and barracuda. The leeward side of the island is calm and the beaches allow easy entry into the ocean. But I want to dive the windward side where there has been so little diving done. We've scouted this other side of the island and have seen some of the roughest coastline ever with sharp jagged rock sculpted by the wind driven breakers. The shoreline looks deadly. Where there is an occasional break the rollers roar through with huge waves that crash and surge onto the rocky beach.
I haven't found a way to get into the water, or more to the point, a way to get back out. We met a group of people who are friends of our dive buddies and went to dinner with them a couple of times. They are from Vancouver Island and dive the same sites we do in the Pacific Northwest. Two of the couples are buying property here so we'll soon have a local contingent of Puget Sound divers on Bonaire. Small world. We've purchased a dive truck and I'm building an outdoor workbench to better manage rinsing and assembling our gear.
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