Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

by Shannon Baker

The laundry is about done, the gear is rinsed and drying in the shower, I’m mopping up all the emails and issues that came up in the last week and our dive trip is now memories. But what a mess of memories we accumulated in just one week. I know this post has nothing to do with writing (unless I set my next book along a reef somewhere--which I might) but my brain is too vacation addled to focus.

We have the good:






Diving on Bonaire is amazing. There are so many shore dives with a short swim out to a reef we’d have to go back for years to dive them all. Corral looks like something from a Walt Disney acid trip and fish are so abundant and diverse we’d constantly have our mouths agape if we didn’t have to keep the regulator firmly rooted to breathe.

Then there was the bad:




As in Bad Boys of the Reef







This is a Lion fish. They are invasive and breed like rabbits on speed.


And Bad as in the sorry sack, bottom feeder who busted our window and slinked his way inside to steal my laptop.





And last but certainly not least, there is the ugly:











Who else has some vacation stories to share?


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