Bonaire below the sea


Going down: Above and unterwater at Windsock dive site
Outside at Captain Don´s Habitat, a memorial for underwater pioneers
Fireworm
Huge tube-sponge corals
Very interresting pictures at Cliff dive site (north)
Colourful corals at night
Blue and reddish glowing hard tube corals
Coral almost looking like a vase
Top end of a tube-sponge coral
Anemone with colorful tips
Another brightly coloured sponge-coral
Anemone in symbiosis with a ghost-shrimp
Christmastree-worm on a hard coral
Brain-coral
Scenery with large tube-sponge coral
Flamingo-tounge
Anemone slightly enhanced with the computer
Big chain at the "Cliff" divesite
Small pot-shaped coral
Yet another anemone with magenta-coloured arms
Maze-like detail of a brain-coral
Possibly a red anemone, but I´m not sure what it is
Bright orange coral-"chandelier" at night below the town pier
At the sand bottom at night, a kind of anemone
Manfred´s (our tour organizer) finger under close inspection of a boxfish
Slightly enhanced picture of my buddy taking picture of some plugin-filter-effect I´ve added later
Buddy Markus and a bunch of yellow-striped snappers
A small diver and big tube-sponge corals. Color removed to make it look more interresting
Sunlight brightening the scenery of the diver at a shallow sandy dive spot
Hawkbill(?)-turtle at Karpata divesite
Cow-boxfish (poisonous ?) mixed with some filter effects
Small group of snapper, they are everywhere and rest below big soft-corals
Gost-crab, very special to Bonaire, I haven´t seen one before. Eight legs, one antenna and two arms
Eye to eye moments
Moray eel at town pier. Color removed from everything except the eel
Clowd of several hundred small fish at Sweet Dreams divesite
Bear-crab. Looks like a woodlouse
Fish portrait
Cute boxfish, very frequent. I´d love to have a domeport (not as small) as his eyes
Another ghost-crab wandering about a hard-coral
Is that a grouper. I wished I´d know more about fish
Butterfly-fish
Mixed group of surgeon- and trumpetfish
Doesn´t this fish look soooo cute ?
Small yellow-striped fish
This is it: *THE* frogfish at the house-reef of Buddy´s dive resort
Red soldierfish
Tarpone, the big hunter and present everywhere where there are divers. Can be enervating at night
Tarpone below the stilts of salt pier. Some effect added
Buddies ? Pufferfish and Boxfish
Flounder with nice blue texture
From this view I´d call it a duck-fish, but I really dont´t know what it is
Cleaner-shrimp
Moray-eel in it´s cave
Big rock lobster (still alive, not eaten)
A cleaner-shrimp couple upside down, the picture has been rotated 180deg
Blue emperor angelfish
One of the many moray-eels on Bonaire
Some kind of angelfish with strong light from the side
Small barracuda, no schools, just some single fish here and there
Artificially colored cuttlefish
Cuttlefish in black-and-white
Pufferfish which can suck in water in case of emergency to look like a hedgehog
Eye of a stingray
Well camouflaged scorpionfish
Unknown fish resting on the ground
Trumpetfish, rotated 90deg clockwise. Normally standing upright within a soft-coral, hiding and waiting for prey
Small octopus at the town pier
Seahorse during a nightdive at the town pier
Small red crab, barely recognizable
One huge moray eel at the wreck of a sailboat south of "Cliff" divesite
Black and white shot of the most famous wreck of Bonaire, Hilma Hooker
Looking down from about 14m at the wreck of Hilma Hooker
Two divers approaching the wreck. Very coarse 800ASA film
Propeller of the Hilma Hooker wreck
Stern of the Hilma Hooker wreck