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Going where the climate suits our clothes!
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
I hope you’re healthy and safe wherever you are in the world! This is an unprecedented event in all of our lifetimes so it’d be weird not to be stressed out by these uncertain times. And even though we’re experiencing somewhat of a unique situation here, it’s still stressful. Here’s how things are going, 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
I was gonna write something about the current state of things today. I drafted and deleted, drafted and deleted. But I don’t really don’t know what to say at this point. The past month has been a lot to deal with. So instead, I thought I’d share with you how we’re distracting ourselves here, Read More
I never expected to be stuck on this island but here we are about to be in that very position. Bonaire FINALLY shut down cruise traffic yesterday, a bit too late in my opinion but I’m just glad they finally did it. All inbound flights from Europe have also been stopped but not yet, 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
Happy New Year 2020 from sunny Bonaire! Some years go by with little change and some are jam packed with change, 2019 was the latter for us. I wrote the first post on this blog on January 1st 2015. We were living in Virginia Beach in our beloved beach cottage, it was a freezing, 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?
Woah, that was a close one! We got our sedulas with days to spare! That’s not to say we were going to get deported but if we didn’t get them this week but the process was about to get far more annoying. I don’t want to muddy up the original post with our saga, Read More