These are a selection of my land pictures. Some underwater shots will be added if any of the highly skilled underwater photographers in the group ever send them to me to post.

This was the group that went to Bonaire in February and March of 2006. As you can see we had a very good time and also did some diving.

We happened to be in Bonaire for Carnival and stood outside of the Mona Lisa Bar for a while and observed the customs of the locals. Some of the Codgers were more into it than others.

Two cruise ships came in during the week and moored near the hotel. These things are big. More than 2,000 people visiting an island with about 12,000 residents.

Mike visiting the open air fruit and vegetable market. It is a beautiful building but the produce was lousy.

Sunsets from the hotel bar were often spectacular. Tom, Howard, Frank, Andy and kind diver from another group who took a picture for us that didn’t turn out that well. “What a great country: you order one beer and they give you two.”

Simon with Pepe one of our two dive masters for the week. Laurel was the other one. Pepe was from Venezuela and competes at motocross. The dive facilities were excellent and very well run. All of the dive sites we went to were within a 15 minute boat ride and the ocean on the leeward side were the diving was very calm.

Howard, Gene, Mike (the driver) and Simon rented a car and toured the island which is pretty much overrun by donkeys and goats. Mike is examining the odd constructions above the town of Rincon and of course looking for birds.

Flyng the kite on the windy and extremely barren part of the island.

The pink haze is some flamingos. Amazing!

More photos later after I solve some technical problems.