Good Monday evening. It is now after 9 pm here in Bonaire. We just got done with a beautiful buffet dinner that included bar-b-q chicken, ribs, grilled fish and pork. It was very good food. This is a view in the day from the restaurant which is part of Capt. Don's Habitat.

No boat dive today, we were on our own for our own dives. After breakfast we went to a grocery store to get food for our lunches. We waited until 9:15 and no one showed to open the place. We went back at noon and it had a sign, "Closed--Chineese New Year. Guess we buy our lunch foods tomorrow.

We do not dive from this dock as it is used only for the boats. Our dock is just out of sight to the right. Today we made three dives. Karen's weights are just about perfect for her. So we could just concentrate on enjoying God's wonderful creation under the surface of the ocean. Words can not describe the variety of fish, coral, sponges, colors, and just the awe of seeing a world that is not our everyday world. We are seeing the regular fish, like Sergent Majors, Blue Tangs, Four-eyed Butterfly, and Trumpet Fish. But on occassion we see something that we did not know and study it for a moment, hoping that we can find it in the fish book. Three dives--we are almost experts. Walt is getting his sucking air time to be longer, going from 18 minutes to 31 minutes today. Karen always ends with more than half of a tank of air remaining.

The buffet tonight is in honor of Captain Don, the founder of this dive operation. He was the first white man on Bonaire and worked his whole life to make this place the number one dive island in the Caribbean. He is a character with a real peg leg. He did not lose it fighting a pirate ship, but to Diabetes. That is old Capt. Don reaching out to give Karen a hug. Yes, I am sunburned on the hairless dome. Tomorrow we have to get up early to take another two boat dives. Until then, God bless you and give you a great Tuesday.