Curacao

Curacao is well known for the beach diving, so that is what we did. We made arrangements with the Dive Bus to do 2 beach dive and we were not disappointed.

The Dive Bus is a bus that picks people up from their hotel and takes them to several dive locations. Unfortunately they don't pick people up from the cruise ships. I guess they have had issues with people not knowing what cruise ship they were supposed to be on and what time it left. So we took a cab to the their dive hut on Piebarri Reef.

The worst thing about beach diving (for us) is getting to the location. This usually mean a possible rough entry though the surf zone and a surface swim against currents then a rough exit though the surf zone that fill every nook and cranny with sand. We were pleasantly surprise to find the dive hut was in a sheltered cove, no waves, no currents and a very short surface swim



to the reef. Piebarri Reef is beautiful. It has huge elk horn coral and tons of sea life. There is an artifical reef called "the car pile" because that is exactly what it is. We were not able to go to it because it lays in 80 ft of water. Jerry and I were the only diver certified to dive to 130 ft. so the dive guide only took us to 60ft. We were still able to get some pictures because the water is so clear.

Mark (he and his wife are the owners) was friendly and helpful. He was adopted from Korean and raised in England. We love his thick British accent. Tim was our dive guide and showed us all kinds of cool stuff and was funnier then heck. Tim is also British that means when the diving was done, it was tea time. We will definitely return.