Allspread Grapealo
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You know, the wind. It completely blows... all the time. The island itself and everything there was fantastic... but the wind completely blows.. all the time. 
Just got back on Sunday. Rented a house from Bonaire Partners.
Drank Amstel and Heineken ... avoided Polar this time. I would have, you know, but the people I was with INSISTED on drinking quality beer. Canards!
Garden Inn Cafe, City Cafe, Donna & Giorgio ... some others for food as well. Even bought some stuff at Cultimara and cooked a little bit at the rental house. Seems to be best to cook yourself a huge breakfast and then try to hold out until dinnertime... but that's just me.
Managed to use up an entire tank of gasoline in a rental truck in just a few days racing around the island looking at/doing stuff (we're taking a shot a buying or building a house on Bonaire -- we were mostly doing that stuff rather than getting in the water).
Dive sites on the whole seemed pretty deserted -- did have a huge crowd at 1,000 Steps with 5 vehicles parked there at the same time last Saturday. Had 4 at one time at Andrea II. Most other sites we were either it, or at most 1 other truck. Almost no one at the beaches on the south end either.
The "leave your truck unlocked with the windows down" campaign at the dive sites seems to be working. Didn't see any broken auto glass at dive sites, almost every car parked there had open windows. No one hanging around watching what was going on... never felt the least bit hinky about being out there, even by myself.
Bonaire is a fantastic island. Hopefully getting a casa of our own will come in the near future and we can 180 the rental biz to have a place to rent out in between using it ourselves in the years to come rather than renting while we're there....
I put in a request that the fish all remain in the same general vicinity as last time. It worked on my previous trip to Curacao; when I got back, they were all still hanging around more or less in the same spots on the reef.
Til next time!
Just got back on Sunday. Rented a house from Bonaire Partners.
Drank Amstel and Heineken ... avoided Polar this time. I would have, you know, but the people I was with INSISTED on drinking quality beer. Canards!
Garden Inn Cafe, City Cafe, Donna & Giorgio ... some others for food as well. Even bought some stuff at Cultimara and cooked a little bit at the rental house. Seems to be best to cook yourself a huge breakfast and then try to hold out until dinnertime... but that's just me.
Managed to use up an entire tank of gasoline in a rental truck in just a few days racing around the island looking at/doing stuff (we're taking a shot a buying or building a house on Bonaire -- we were mostly doing that stuff rather than getting in the water).
Dive sites on the whole seemed pretty deserted -- did have a huge crowd at 1,000 Steps with 5 vehicles parked there at the same time last Saturday. Had 4 at one time at Andrea II. Most other sites we were either it, or at most 1 other truck. Almost no one at the beaches on the south end either.
The "leave your truck unlocked with the windows down" campaign at the dive sites seems to be working. Didn't see any broken auto glass at dive sites, almost every car parked there had open windows. No one hanging around watching what was going on... never felt the least bit hinky about being out there, even by myself.
Bonaire is a fantastic island. Hopefully getting a casa of our own will come in the near future and we can 180 the rental biz to have a place to rent out in between using it ourselves in the years to come rather than renting while we're there....
I put in a request that the fish all remain in the same general vicinity as last time. It worked on my previous trip to Curacao; when I got back, they were all still hanging around more or less in the same spots on the reef.
Til next time!
