Klein Bonaire is an uninhabited island sitting just a mile away from Bonaire. We popped over there to spend the day hanging out on the beach and making a dive. Unfortunately, the wind had other plans. We were there for a couple hours as the wind built steadily up to … Read More
Hilma Hooker
The Hilma Hooker came to Bonaire with mechanical problems. When authorities offered to help and the ship’s captain declined, customs got suspicious and decided to investigate. Surprise, a load of drugs was found, and the ship was confiscated. With nobody taking care of the ship, it began to sink. They … Read More
A Bonaire Day
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
Windsurfing Lac Bay
We’ve done a few dives around Bonaire in the past couple of weeks. We still didn’t have a working underwater camera, though, so a picture of the kids standing at the top of the 1,000 Steps dive is as close as we could get to scuba pics. 1,000 Steps is … Read More
Copyrighted Work
A couple of weeks back one of our Bum friends let us know that Denison Yachting was using our photo on their website to sell Grand Banks’. I imagine every one of you who is involved in cruising knows about Denison Yachting—they are one of the largest yacht brokerage in … Read More
Donkey Sanctuary
When we arrived in Bonaire we realized, after talking with our families, that nobody knows where Bonaire is (hint: it’s the little star down there at the bottom next to Curacao). I forget sometimes that not everyone is a sailor with every map of the world committed to memory in … Read More
Windward 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
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
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