Bonaire

Since Bonaire is one of the three islands off the coast of Venezuela, it's part of the Netherland Antilles and most important it is a gem for shore diving.

It's a simple concept: you rent a truck and with your own scuba gear you get your tanks from the resort's drive-through and then drive to the numerous dive sites any time you want. Let's say you want to see who's hunting at 2:00AM then you do what we did, you just do it.

The slave huts are a reminder of another time when not even the Europeans were disturbed by owning other humans.

They were freshly painted and stood out in the bare landscape, close to a still operational salt production.

During one of those night dives we encountered a box jelly fish that was just hovering in the water column as if it took a break from an interstellar journey. We spent quite some time with this "monster", partly because we were intrigued, partly because we tried to imagine how close we got to these tentacles. Are they dangerous to humans? What would happen? How would we do if we got in contact? If anyone has an idea what type of box jelly fish this is, please let us know in the comment section.

When night diving, it's good to know that the large silver fish that flies by you from behind is just a 6 foot Tarpon. They use your light beam to hunt for their dinner.