Archives for May, 2007
Unicycling to Work?
I’m a fairly big believer in things happening for a reason. Like this morning … I was late leaving the house for work, and if I hadn’t been I never would have seen some guy riding his unicycle to work. I mean, how often do you see someone riding a unicycle, much less commuting on one? To top it off, he was also reading a book. Talk about efficiency - of time, space, and a number of other things.
Things like this make me smile.
05/18/2007 Update:
As if seeing one guy commuting to work on a unicycle wasn’t uncommon enough … I saw another person commuting on his unicycle today! I really wanted to take a photo with my mobile phone, but I also didn’t want to get into a car accident. (Lucky for me and everyone else on the road, the latter desire won.) And in case you’re wondering - it was definitely a different guy on a different unicycle … in a different city. How fantastic?
Bonaire Shore-Diving Bonanza
On April 27th, 2007, we headed to Bonaire for 8 nights at the Sand Dollar. Bonaire is part of the Netherlands Antilles, and one of the three “ABC” islands (along with Aruba and Curacao). “We” consisted of me, my boyfriend (Mark), his friend (Scott), and Scott’s friend (Alisa). Mark and I started diving last July and made our first warm water trip to Cozumel in December. I don’t generally take vacations very often, but somehow – less than 6 months after returning from Cozumel, we were headed back to the Caribbean for more. Bonaire was Scott’s idea – implanted in his head by a friend of his in New Zealand. We’d heard and read good things about Bonaire anyway, and (aside from maybe going back to Cozumel) it appeared to be the least expensive option for another foreign warm water diving experience.
It was a fantastic trip, filled with excellent diving. During our time there, I managed to do 18 dives, with an average bottom time of 59 minutes. (Thank God for nitrox!) The sites I dove were: Angel City, Andrea I, Bari Reef, Boka Slagbaai, Buddy’s Reef, Front Porch, Hilma Hooker, Karpata, The Lake, Larry’s Reef, Oil Slick Leap, Our Confidence (Eden Beach), Red Slave, Salt Pier, and the White (Blue) Hole. (In case you were counting, we dove the Bari Reef four times – it is big and full of things to see.) I wanted to tell you what my favorite sites were, but it’s not that easy – we had no bad dives, and we were never left feeling like we could have made better use of our time if he had done a different site. Bonaire is truly a “diver’s paradise” in that sense! But if I really had to pick a few – like if you were going to Bonaire and only had time to repeat six of my dives … I think I’d recommend these: Salt Pier, Karpata, Bari Reef, White (Blue) Hole, Hilma Hooker, and Boka Slagbaai.
I actually wished I had done more dives while we were there, but for varying reasons I could not. Perhaps I’ll have to go back.
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