Now with more Leslie!

We haven’t done a “Best of…” video in a couple of years and thought it might be worth resurrecting to highlight some of the spectacular sea life we see and share more of our favorite encounters. We’ve had quite a few lately. Let us know what you think in the comments below.

If you come to Bonaire and dive, please add a comment below and let us know what you saw!

We want to encourage more shore diving, so this video provides some guidance where the site is, how to dive it and what you may see there. If you want to skip to or review specific topics, the section timings are below.

UNCOMMON SEA LIFE AND FIRST TIME CAPTURE IDENTIFICATION

We primarily use two sources to validate sea life we don’t recognize. The first is Florent's Guide To TheTropical Reefs which can be found at https://reefguide.org. Its free and has lots of pictures, but is not comprehensive. The second is “The Reef Set: Reef Fish, Reef Creature and Reef Coral (3 Volumes)”. The box set can be found on Amazon; however with all our travels, we also purchased the eBooks (http://fishid.com/store/productcateg...) so we don’t have to carry an extra five pounds of paper in our luggage. :) We also reference other sources from time to time as well.

Here are some links to more information/images about animals from this video.

Bonefish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonefish
White Mullet https://www.fishbase.se/summary/Mugil...
Balloonfish https://www.aquariumofpacific.org/onl...
Box Crab https://www.waikikiaquarium.org/exper...
Horseeye Jack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsee...
Black Grouper https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/specie...


CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro
0:56 Salt Pier
2:24 Yellow Submarine
3:38 Red Beryl
4:22 Tolo
5:00 Aquarius
5:56 The Rock

CAMERA EQUIPMENT

Underwater Camera iPhone 14 Pro Max
Underwater Housing Hot Dive H2 (without the depth sensor)
Underwater Lights Kraken Hydra 8000 WRGBU
Camera App Deep Photo
Land Camera iPhone 13 Pro Max
Driving Camera GoPro Hero 9 Black (using the GoPro suction cup mount)