I know its taken me a long time to get around to posting this – been too busy having fun .

In all we spent just under 3 months in Bonaire, its an easy place to stop at and just stay put for a while, most things are within walking distance and there is a shopping bus – paid for by Van Den Tweel supermarket which picks up from the marina and takes you to their supermarket so shopping for heavier items is easy. We made alot of new friends – some of whom are doing the same Ocean cruising club rally to the Western Caribbean that we have signed up for in a couple of months, however – they are mostly in group 1 and we are in group 2.

We spent a lot of time diving, as well as diving off the boat or dinghy as well as doing a couple of great shore dives with Bob and Anne from Baloo – they had hired a pickup for a few days and invited us on two dives with them, the first one was Tori reef and the second was at the Salt Pier both are towards the south of the island near the salt pans and both were excellent dives.

 

  

  

  

    

We also did some dives at Klein Bonaire - some we did from the dinghy and some from big boats .

We found some seahorses on Sampler second time we dived there – Seahorses were on my wish list of things to see underwater in Bonaire,  

As always we loved seeing Turtles, Rays, Porcupine fish, Honeycomb Cowfish , Queen Angelfish, French Angelfish, Damselfish, schools of  Yellowtail Snappers, Drumfish and resting Greater Soapfish – we only ever saw them asleep or resting!

              

Then there is the beautiful colourful coral, sponges, plands Anemones and Christmas tree worms

             

Of course I cant miss out some photos on one of my niece's favourites'!

 

The down side of Bonaire was the constant dust in the air which covered the boat this screen turned red/brown every 3 days – you can see the difference with some of the mesh laid on top of it, it only rained a couple of times while we were there and so the boat got very dirty – we washed what we could when we arrived in Curacao. Also there were jellyfish larvae / sealice  which I react to – Steve feels them sting but gets no marks where as I get red lumps which itch intensely and last for about a week!

 

A few days short of our allowed stay of 3 months we headed off for Curacao – we have booked Innamorata into a marina and we are flying home for a month.