We made it! 2020 is over! Good riddance! I couldn’t be happier to slam the book closed on this past year.
We’ve been monitoring grooved brain coral for spawning activity the past month as volunteers with Reef Renewal Bonaire. If you’re not familiar with them, check them out, they’re doing some amazing work here on Bonaire restoring our reefs! So what does monitoring entail?
You never know what you’ll see on any given dive! This was just a routine dive at a site we like to go to in town. If we had a home dive site, this would be one of them. There are three frogfish there that we’ve been visiting for a while that recently spawned, Read More
We’ve been finding so many gorgeous little froggies lately! I love discovering new ones just as much as going back to visit past finds to see how they’re doing and what they’re up to. They’re such fascinating little fish. They’re also a great (and much needed) distraction right now. If you’re on Instagram or, Read More
The blog has been pretty quiet lately. We’ve been busy and I’ve been spending my very limited amount of creative time (something I’m working on fixing) working on a few other projects. So, for now, I thought I’d share some recent pics for those of you who aren’t on Facebook or Instagram. If you, Read More
We were very lucky to come across a very pregnant female frogfish at a site close to our house a few weeks ago. She was all puffed up with eggs and about a foot away was a little yellow male at the ready. We didn’t get to see them spawn but my friend did., Read More
The final coral spawning event of 2019 came to a close last month here on Bonaire. It’s a spectacular sight and many shops put people in the water to witness this natural phenomenon. Given how the spawning process works an interesting question came up: Do divers in the water negatively impact the spawning process?
For those of you stuck in an office or far from the ocean, I hope these clips brighten your day! Bonaire awaits!
Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) is the most devastating disease to hit stony corals in our lifetime. Most coral diseases flare up and die out within a year’s time but SCTLD has been raging in the Tropical West Atlantic & Caribbean for 5 years with no sign of slowing down. It’s not here, Read More
It’s been a busy week here on Bonaire! Project AWARE week 2019 has come to a close and the dive shop I work for here on the island hosted five cleanup dives across the leeward side of the island. We host a lot of cleanup dives throughout the year and the results on this, Read More