Good evening from noisy Curacao!  Yes it’s already starting to sound like the island is being bombed with fireworks going off every second I sit here!  A friend of mine bought some fireworks yesterday that would be illegal in most countries!  This thing he had was almost the size of a stick of dynamite and from what he said produced the same effect!?  I told him he was just plain insane to be holding those when lighting them, he just laughed.  Tomorrow evening will be completely insane here and I am sure it will be seen from space, these folks love their fireworks?  

A friend asked just the other day about Rufo and as luck has it I took this shot of him yesterday after a big down-pour completely soaked him.  He is just so funny!  

Today just came and went?  I am sitting here now wondering what did I do today?  I mostly just hung out around the house working on the computer and getting photos of the family ready to send back with them, that took quite awhile!  Around 3:00 I took Missy and Bobbi to the “polished glass beach” and let them go crazy picking up treasures!  We all found some wonderful things, I wish I could buy that whole section of beach with the glass and market it, really nice stuff.

Good morning,  as you already guessed I was too busy last night to get my daily out but fear not here it is.  Right after work yesterday we loaded up the dive gear and went to our favorite dive spot in front of “the Dive Bus” at Pier Baai for a night dive with Missy.  While we took off into the water Aimee’s parents got a table on the beach at Surf and Turf and had kind of a front row seat getting to watch us do our thing. 

We jumped in around 7:00, this was Missy’s first night dive and she did great!  No more than two seconds after going under I spotted a flounder buried in the sand with just his eyes poking out and next an octopus just sitting on a rock watching us.  This was to be the evening of finding all kinds of tiny small new crabs, for some reason they were everywhere?  I was hoping to get help with finding out the name of this mega tiny 1/4th inch crab?  I know I have a lot of smart divers out there so please send me his name if you know it, we couldn’t find him in the books?  Aimee asked me “how in the world did you ever spot that thing”?  I was swimming inches above the reef very slowly and saw this tiny “something” move!  I turned around, had to relocate him again and found a place in the sand to lay to steady the camera.  He was so small but so cool, this is one of three different crabs I found last night. 

We also found a one inch starfish at the exit.  In all the dives here we have only seen one other starfish like this one so it was pretty exciting, I will send that as well.  The whole dive lasted around an hour, Missy and Aimee had a great time together and stuck together like glue the whole dive. 

I think it was Missy that found a giant coral crab and a beautiful parrotfish sleeping in a sponge bowl, had the wrong lens for that shot!  After the dive we joined the parents on the beach for dinner, it was perfect ending to a great night dive!