There now follows a tourist advert for Bonaire!
Salamander
Mon 5 Apr 2010 23:37
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Happy Easter everyone!
What a beautiful place, diving and snorkelling
sites everywhere - you can dive or snorkel on 60-70 sites easily from the shore.
The restaurants serve superb food with good wine. You can hire a Harley Davidson
or open Jeep to zoom round the island. Windsurfing, landsailing, kite surfing
and so-on. It is one big playground for adults.
The nature park had our favourite sign so far for
Gents and Ladies, using only local flora.
 Sadly this is the only whale we've seen recently -
a local group re-assembled the bones after the whale died from being impaled by
a cruise ship.
 The east coast is a bit rough!
 Gotomeer lake
 Found a great beach bar with local musicians
playing chill out music, not sure how much this one had drunk
though.
 The whole island has shut shops and restaurants for
Easter. Does anyone remember when England was like this and families used to do
other activities than shopping, plus the panic shopping in supermarkets because
they will be shut for 1 day.
A great relaxed feel to the whole island. They
print a wonderful booklet - the Bonaire Update - with details of special offers,
free rum parties and Salsa lessons. Bucket loads of party stuff for
adults - it really is an adult playground.
We do not have long enough here:
We've had snotty iguanas attempting to bully food
off us, great barracuda following us on our night dive, using our torchlight to
hunt (saw one swallow a blue tang in one bite - the guide does say not to
tease these fish) and heard the frequent calls of the endangered yellow
shouldered parrot (managed to photograph a few - see other entry)
We've dived on reefs, a cliff and a wreck and gone
to 6 nights as we still have stuff we want to do.
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