The Bonaire Routine

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Bonaire

Every week here in Bonaire we go through pretty much the same routine. Work and play around the boat Monday through Thursday, then rent a truck, get groceries, dive, windsurf, and explore all weekend. It’s not always bad to be repetitious. The mooring field has filled up. We’re now at … Read More

A Bonaire Day

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Power Workers

Bonaire is only about 20 miles long by 5 miles wide, and we’ve been pretty much determined to cover every inch of it while we are here. Each weekend we rent a pickup and head out to find a new dirt road. I have to give kudos to the Bonaire … Read More

Windward Bonaire

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Bonaire

Bonaire is great for scuba diving, and also for dock diving. We rented the world’s smallest car for the weekend, which was a bit of a mistake considering we hadn’t done laundry in a couple of weeks. The laundry pile in the backseat was causing the car to bottom out. … Read More

Settling Into Bonaire

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Bumfuzzle Bonaire

After a couple of days in the marina we were all eager to get out into the mooring field that runs along the malecón (boardwalk, waterfront, whatever it is you want to call it, we always use the Spanish word for it) here in Bonaire. The water color is crazy … Read More

Hallo Bonaire

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Bonaire BoatKids

We set off from St. Croix as the sun came up. We’d been there nearly five months, and had grown comfortable with the rhythm of our life there. We had friends who had landed on the island and never left, and while we can certainly see the appeal of that, … Read More