Best of Mike #320

My favorite dive buddy, Lydia.... posing next to the old (sailing days I think) anchor that we visit when we dive Karpata on Bonaire.

As I remember the story, the bay at Karpata was used by the ships that took on cargo and/or off-loaded cargo for the aloe plantations that operated on the north end of the island, in days of old. 

I am sure that the intention was to raise the anchor and take it with them when they left.... but apparently that didn't always work out.

When we first began diving this site (20+yrs ago) you could see two anchors here. This one standing upside down against the reef.... and laying down in a little deeper water below it.

But corals grow, which is a good thing.... and the one that was laying down is no longer visible.