"The Trip Continues"

Hopefully, I'm not boring you with pictures from the same trip. These are just a select few of the many that were taken. I think on this trip I averaged about 3 to 4 dives a day. On some of the other trips we did liveaboard diving. That's where we flew to a destination, transfered to a boat, and then ate, dived, slept, and relaxed on the boat all week. Sometimes without stepping foot on land for the whole week. And since we didn't have to leave the boat, I would do 5 dives a day. But that was't the case with this trip to Bonaire. We stayed in a room on shore, we purchased 6 boat dives for the week and had unlimited shore diving with a small truck for transportation. Initially, we had an island orientation which is required for everyone since as I said in a previous post, the island is completely surrounded by a marine park. Once that was taken care of, we could check out a couple of tanks a piece, load our gear in the truck and head down the road to find a dive site. The dive sites are marked with basketball size rocks painted yellow with the name of the site and are sitting along the road. When you see one you can pull off the road, gear up, and dive. More to come!


"The Tarpon "












"A Scorpion Portrait"














"The Wall at Rappel"

Bonaire Again!

I've been working on cleaning up some more images from the Bonaire trip. The blog has been good for getting my images cleaned up. Generally, they just sit in my catalog until I need something new. That's why I'm sort of staying on task with this trip. Bonaire is one of ABC islands which is nearly as far south as one can go in the Carribean before hitting the shores of Venezuela. The A is for Aruba and the C is for Curacao. The entire area around the island is a protected marine park. This is why the reefs here are pristine and the fish populations are up. There are over 60 dive sites on the western side of the island and over 26 around the island off to the west. That island is called Klein Bonaire and all its sites are boat dives unlike Bonaire's sites which are primarily shore dives. Some of the more difficult shore entries can be done as boat dives. I'll edit the previous posts in time to name the marine animals in the photographs. More to come!

"Orange Cup Corals feeding at night"














"Flamingo Tongue on the move"
















"Damsel fish hanging out"

"Art In The Garden" Exhibit

Today I'm going to take a break from the 2007 Bonaire trip and post the juried pictures for the "Art in the Garden" exhibit at the Mid-Atlantic Garden Expo in the Toyota Arena at the York Fairgrounds, York, PA. Of the 29 artists with works on exhibit Feb. 26th to Mar. 1st of 2009, the picture "Nexus Sphinx" was honored with a first place ribbon. I don't know how many people went through the show this year, but I was told that there were over 12,000 that went through last years show. I'm greatful for the exposure. It was great to meet the other artists as well. Two of these pictures plus four others have been entered to be juried for the "Art of the State" exhibit. Those accepted will hang in the State Museum for the Summer. What an honor! Results are to be posted around the end of April. I'll post the results when they are received.

"Nexus Sphinx"

"Waiting Patiently"

"On The Move"

And More!

Well, last night I posted these pictures with a short statement about falling asleep with the laptop on my lap while downloading my shots for the week. Two of the pictures I neglected to add the copywrite info. While editing the post to add the copywrite to the pictures, the statement was deleted. I'm still trying to get a handle on the software. Trial and error sometimes can be a painful experience. Not like its a life and death matter but to put in the effort to compose something and then have it disappear is frustrating. Oh well, I'll keep at it! Later!

More From Bonaire

More archived images from the southern Caribbean. March 1st was the deadline for "Art of the State". I submitted six images and should get the results sometime around the end of April. I think for the next few posts, I'll stay with the same theme.