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Avid outdoorsman and underwater photographer, Barry Brown has spent the last seven years documenting life above and below water in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. Focusing on the island's coral reefs, he has worked hand-in-hand with several businesses and environmental groups, including SECORE, a marine conservation organization based in the Netherlands. His image of a research submersible was recently featured on the cover of DIVER magazine.

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Mar 2, 10     Comments Off
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Good evening readers I am back!!!  What a GREAT trip to say the least, the folks in Bonaire ROCK!!  Our friends Sal and Patty who spend 3 months a year in Bonaire met me at the airport and delivered me to the folks at Wannadive where I then stayed for the next 6 days.  Sal and Patty picked me up from the Wannadive Hotel every morning and off we went to some new fun dive spot in search of new creatures and coral reef scenes.  I was also lucky enough to have friends from Rapid City diving here at this time as well.  Their names are Scott and Tammi and they are the owners of Black Hills Scuba, please stop in and say hi to them for me they are such great people!  Everyone I met or ran into was so nice and everyone went out of their way to make me feel at home, so to all of you, thanks for everything!!!  So the first morning Sal, Patty and I met Scott and Tammi at the Wannadive shop at Eden Beach and off we went up the coast for our first dive together.  The dive spot was called O’l Blue and within minutes of arriving we spotted a giant pod of Offshore Bottlenose Dolphins swimming right out over the dive spot headed towards Bonaire at a very slow pace.  Upon seeing this we all quickly got our gear on and raced to the water but by the time we all got out and under they had already passed.  Even though we didn’t see dolphins it was a really beautiful dive.  This is Sal floating over a beautiful cluster of tube sponges which this spot had plenty of, I kind of just raced from one to the next like a man on a mission.  Bonaire has such beautiful diving!  Almost every spot we went to we saw big fish and lots of them, something Curacao has very little of as our reef’s are fished hard!  I think it’s safe to say we all had a wonderful dive here, Scott shot video and Tammi did a little posing for me over a few gorgonians, what else could a man ask for? 
 
Well more tomorrow, it’s late and I am beat!  Again thank you all, Barry

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