Bonaire
 

We spent New Years in Bonaire, which is rated as one of the best dive destinations in the Caribbean. It was our first trip and we were not disappointed. Although the water temperatures were cooler than normal thanks to that polar vortex thing, and the viz was not as good as normal, we still loved the diving and are already planning a trip for next winter. Bonaire is renowned for its great shore diving and we managed 28 dives in the two weeks we were there. Many pictures and a few movies to eventually follow as soon as I figure out Final Cut Pro!

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Those are awesome pics! Keep em coming!

breathtaking!!

Love the photo's!

WOW Amazing pics.

Question for you. I've been researching our next trip and I'm having a heck of a time trying to get from Vancouver to Bonaire. What was your flights like?

Very nice pics! 28 dives in two weeks is impressive.

Awesome photos! Have you ever tried a red filter on your camera? We have one on our GoPro, it's awesome!

We are planning on a Bonaire trip in December, doing Cayman in March... Almost exclusively shore diving sounds too good to be true! Our diving on our trips usually runs us around 3000-4000, as there are 3 of us.

The routing we are looking at is Calgary-Houston-Bonaire on United. Great connections. Where did you stay on Bonaire? We have been looking at a waterfront house on Punt Vierkant...love the idea of diving from your house!!!

Would love to see more photos and vids!

Wow
 

CRAZY photos!!!
So many different things. The blue shrimp were so cool.
Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the comments.
We tried to do at least two dives per day but did not dive the day we arrived, New Years day or the day before we flew home. Doing 3 dives a day is not at all difficult with the ease of access.
We do have a red filter for our housing but did not use it. We bought a new strobe for our camera which we are still trying to set properly. It works good if the subject is close enough but anything in the distance still needs color correction.
The couple staying next door to us used a new GoPro 3+ and shot some great video. I will post a link to some of his stuff.
We stayed at Beachcomber Villas. The owners are a couple originally from Calgary who gave up their day jobs to live the dream....great people! The house reef is The Cliff which we dove multiple dives. Karpata was probably our favorite though. You will love Bonaire!