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Alan Franklin/ Lynne Gane
Sun 6 Jan 2008 16:26
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Hello All
We are now in Bonaire which is in the Dutch
Antilles located about 50nm of the coast of Venezuela on our way to Aruba about
100nm west.
Bonaire is famous for its scuba diving and
snorkelling as the whole coast line is a marine reserve in fact yesterday we had
just had lunch in the main town (of the one horse variety) and I was just
sitting on a bench looking into the sea when not 10ft away there were these
brilliant turquoise fish about ten of then 15 to 18 inches long just
swimming so close.(you wouldn't really expect them to do anything else )but it
was the proximity that was surprising.
Mainly the island is volcanic rock with a lot
of green vegetation (because it rains so
much) and only 10ft above sea level apart from two peaks on at 400ft and the
other at 130ft.It also has a National Park which we we see later after
snorkelling.Apart from this and the watersports activities it looks very much
like a Dutch colonial outpost.
We went for a drive round yesterday after the never
ending visit to customs and immigration (always the first job )we have to do the
same in Aruba (different department) and went to a place called Rincon which was
supposed to be the cultural centre of the island (Jenny's suggestion-I wanted to
find the chandlers) we couldn't find any culture but we did have a good drive
round and found some ancient writings several donkeys and some
goats.
During our trip another one of the BWR
boats arrived called Hakuna Matata (remember the Lion King) and we went out
to dinner with them in the marina restaurant and had a super fish meal
and everyone sang Happy birthday to me in Spanish with my one candle on a
slice of cake.
That' it for now we are ff to
snorkel
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