Bonaire Dive Highlights - Just The Good Stuff - April 2024 | TropicLens

[@MrBarrySugarman]

Great shots! We love Bonaire too!

[@TropicLens]

Thank you sir!

[@eliminator6949]

Very nice and educational video again. Praise for macrolens and for men behind the camera too of cource.

[@TropicLens]

Thank you very much sir! Indeed, we love the lens...and all the people that watch the videos. :-)

[@chrishughes4788]

Wow! That's a lot of first time captures! Great video, David!

[@TropicLens]

Right!?!? Soooo many. It was a good month. This month has been average (so far); but we're planning on diving the full moon next week which always seems to bring a few surprises.

[@Orisha1990]

Awesome video been watching for years now. Bonaire is one of a couple of places left in the Caribbean I haven't been to that I really want to, and big part of it is how awesome it looks on your videos. Your videos helped me a lot when I visited Grand Cayman and Curacao, I just freedive, so your depth profiles when you visit places is great, anything 60 feet and under is fair game for me.

[@TropicLens]

Wow, thank you for being a loyal fan. It is kind of weird to actually read "watching for years"; but I guess we have been doing it for that long now. :-) There is a free diving school on Bonaire. Not that you need one, but the island has support and a community for that activity. Cliff has some nice walls in your range.

[@dakicpopovich]

Another nice video! I hope to some day go to such beautiful Island of Bonaire 🤞

[@TropicLens]

Thanks Dakic. It seems like the diving is getting better...if that's possible. :-)

[@Elle-bu6ou]

Excellent video! Would love to dive with you two one day!

[@TropicLens]

Thank you for the kind words Elle. We have met some terrific friends through this channel and are always open to meeting more. Ping us when/if you make it down here and we can meet for a dive and/or drinks.

[@johnmontgomery2735]

Great video once again. November cant come soon enough!!

[@TropicLens]

Thanks John. We missed each other last year; but ping us with your dates and we can set something up.

[@johnmontgomery2735]

@TropicLens we will be on the Island 6th-16th November. Hopefully we can get a fun dive in. This trip we will have 5 divers and my wife who doesn't dive. Finally after years of going talked her into tagging along.

[@TropicLens]

@@johnmontgomery2735 Nice group! Does your wife snorkel? There are certainly plenty of sites good for both diving and snorkeling...and a few spas. 🙂 Ping us when you get closer and we can get something locked in. The full moon in on the 15th, which is the day before you leave; but there should be some good/uncommon things to see in the days leading up.

[@johnmontgomery2735]

@TropicLens she has went snorkeling once and isn't too comfy in the ocean but maybe I can change that. I will snorkel with her a little but I want to dive and she's the only mom diver of the group. So a bit of a conundrum

[@SpencerPhotography]

Yes!!! New vids!!!!

[@TropicLens]

Indeed...and sooooo much to see!

[@kenm8506]

Great videos. Been coming her for a dozen years and we love it. We are on island for 4 more days if you'd like to go for a dive.

[@TropicLens]

We enjoy meeting TropicLens fans and would love to go on a dive with you, Ken. We have some appointments today, but don't currently have anything for tomorrow. If you're leaving leaving on Saturday, perhaps we can get a morning dive in? Send an email to [e-mail] and we can exchange contact information.

[@jonnieinbangkok]

Batfish, if I'm correct, are relatives of the frogfish, and as such, also have water-jets used in propulsion. I believe that's what the openings at the back are. I've seen frogfish blowing water out of them as they bounce along the bottom (don't see the water but the puffs of sand the jets create).

[@TropicLens]

I didn't know they were related Jonnie. It does look like they are from the same Actinopterygii class of marine animal. So interesting! Unfortunately, I can't seem to find anything on water jet locomotion; but will keep looking. The batfish we saw seemed to open and close them sometimes when standing still. Perhaps it's to keep limber? Thank you so much for the impetus to learn more. :-)

[@jonnieinbangkok]

@@TropicLens Yes distant cousins; you can see it in their similar morphology and behavior. They are both benthic poor swimming ambush predators that use lures.