#Sushi boy long beach plus
Chris, please fill in any details that I’m sure I’ve forgotten in the month plus since we got back.
Thanks to DeepGeek for being up for the adventure and for being an easy person to travel with. Fortunately the same testing company was operating at the airport, so we were able to recover fairly easily, but the whole episode was a comedy of errors from start to finish.Īll in all it was a great trip. When we showed up for our appointments, which had been scheduled and paid for before we were allowed on the island, the staff had decided to call it a day and closed before we got there. Make sure you have some slack time built in for that. If you do go visit during the time of Covid, you’ll have to get a Covid test done your third day on the island. The ambiance, harbor views and good food were hard to beat. Food-wise the Gouverneur was one restaurant that we visited a few times. I did a tour of the Curacao liquor distillery one afternoon and we spent a fair amount of time around the Queen Emma Bridge, which is in the downtown area of Willemstad. Double Reef was my last dive of the trip and I was lucky enough to see 8 or 10 sea turtles during that dive. Alice in Wonderland was a bit of a drive from where we were staying but had beautiful beaches and we got to take in a long line of single-file Creole Wrasse headed somewhere quite determinedly. Other dives of note included Armageddon, where we saw two squid at the end of the dive and then had an amazingly good fresh seafood lunch at Seaside Terrace overlooking the water. It definitely saved me a lot of wrong turns. When he wasn’t in the car, I relied on, an app which, while not perfect, did have the advantage of providing real-time navigation without using cell data. DeepGeek was able to harness the magic of Google to help nav. The map wasn’t a whole lot of use for navigating because there are very few road signs, lol. I was lucky enough to get to do that dive on two different days.Ĭuracao is a large, developed island and navigating around wasn’t particularly easy. The wreck is laid out well for easy penetration. In one photo I counted over 25 tarpon cruising by. The Superior Producer, on the other hand, is a large coastal freighter and has more tarpon on it than I’ve ever seen before. I was mesmerized by the Glassy Sweeper fish that circled endlessly inside the ship, making it seem like an aquatic lava lamp.
The Tugboat is a very small wreck in shallow water but it has a surprising amount of life on it. Of the dives we did, my two favorites were probably the Tugboat and the Superior Producer.
There were lots of small to mid sized fish on the dives but very few bigger fish. If anybody would like to have that map, let me know and I can bring it to the Jan meeting. The shop was a big help with pointers about each of the sites we were thinking of. We picked up a map that shows all of them, but it’s still lacking critical information like where to park, where the best entries are and such. There aren’t any numbered rocks and there’s no other signage indicating a dive site. The dive sites aren’t as easy to find as they are on Bonaire. For the most part it was easy, leisurely diving. Most of the dives we did were wall dives, with a little bit of time spent in the shallows as well. As it was, we covered a large portion of the west / south side of the island. If I did the trip again, I’d probably mix in a day or two of boat diving as well, to get to some of the highly-touted remote sites. The trip was planned to be entirely shore diving, which we did. I think the shop is moving locations soon though, to one of the resort hotels. We didn’t plan it this way, but we got lucky and the dive shop was literally just down the hill from the Airbnb. We were diving with Goby Divers since DeepGeek needed sorb for his rebreather. Traveling internationally during Covid is interesting to say the least, but we managed to make it to the island and got checked in at our Airbnb at Royal Palms condos, which had an awesome view of the water. In November, DeepGeek and I made a trip to Curacao, where everything is dushi.
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