We joined our friends Seb and Mary at the Belmar Apartments a mile or from our home here, suited up, and went in for our dive. We swam out on the surface for about 100 yards to an orange buoy and then did our descent without reference, which was one of the exercises Bas still needed to do. He and I then performed the additional exercises he still needed to complete to finalize his certification, and we then enjoyed the underwater scenery, including a myriad of fish, crustaceans, an eel and even a seahorse that Seb and Mary had found on a prior dive.

Some of the photos are below, with the rest on my Flickr page.

Bas entering the water to go diving

School of grunts

Male peacock flounder

Bas explores the underwater world of Bonaire

Fish eyes

A flamingo tongue snail on a soft coral

Surreal white seahorse with flamingo tongue in background

A sharp tailed eel plays peek-a-boo