Caribbean Note V

This weeks note is the last for our current trip. We will be home on Saturday night. Our laptop has given up the ghost but friends arrived yesterday and brought a very nice HP notebook computer with them, so this email is sent courtesy of them.

We have been diving all this week, including a nice drift dive from La Dania's Leap to Karpata with a lot of surf on the exit and a night dive the girls did by themselves at The Cliff where they were buzzed by big tarpon. Our friend was recently certified and today gets to start collecting his warm water diving experiences here is Bonaire.

I'm still trying to make it to the Windjammer to catch the Lionfish there; maybe it will happen this week. The manager of the Bonaire Marine Park has built an air operated LP hose "speargun" to spear Lionfish in the coral, but so far it's not working very well. The whole Lionfish extermination attempt is problematic at best.

I did finally find a very nice Golden Coney and, of course, all the usual eagle rays and octopus and squid and turtles and groupers et.al.

We're bringing a friend home with us to spend the month and maybe we can talk him into cooking a nice oxtail or goat stew while he's here. Hope you are all in good health and happy.