Took a Friday afternoon to just tool around the island a bit more, exploring little corners we hadn’t been yet. It’s not a big island, so it hasn’t taken long to get to know every road.
We no longer have to offer to pay the kids to pick up plastic on the beaches. Ouest just takes it up as a personal challenge everywhere we go. I’ll never get over how easy it is to fill a bucket with nothing more than bottle caps.
It’s not just donkeys hanging out around the island looking for carrots and a scratch.
This time paddling the dinghy is actually a good thing. I’d just finished dropping off our million pound 9.9hp Honda outboard with the new owners.
Because, happy days are here again, the Yamaha dealer had exactly one new Yamaha 15 Enduro in stock. This is universally the cruiser outboard of choice. Starts on the first pull, runs on oil/gas mix, or if you’re out of gas it’ll run for a few miles on saltwater and spit, and best of all, it gets the dinghy on a plane in a split second with the whole family onboard. The Honda 9.9 was actually a pretty good engine for us when the kids were little, but the more they’ve grown the more sluggish it’s been, meaning a lot of wet dinghy rides when there is a breezy chop on the water. And now that we’re scuba diving it’s completely useless. It’s crazy how heavy scuba gear is.
Needless to say, Lowe was as happy as I was over this purchase.
Bonaire is full of food carts. I think what I like best about food trucks is that they specialize. There’s nothing worse than sitting down in a restaurant and getting handed a menu with 400 choices. You just know they don’t do any one of those things well. With a food truck you can have confidence they wouldn’t be in business if they couldn’t do their small menu extremely well.
6 Comments on “Aimlessly Around Bonaire”
Yes, yes, Yamaha! Had a chuckle when I read that. When we bought our lake place in the mountains of GA, it came with a tri-hull plastic 21′ with a Yamaha Two Stroke. What a utterly dependable mill!
And oh, how I appreciate that. I have memories of chipping ice off a Honda engine to replace the dead engine in the Zodiac we were in at Palmer Station, Antarctica… and drifting out to sea. Not exactly club med, but pretty all the same 😉
Only men would have memories of motors. 😉
Hi Ali,
Starlink is going to be available in the Caribbean soon:
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/8/22319761/spacex-starlink-fcc-internet-cars-boats-aircraft.
Did you get in line? https://www.starlink.com/faq
I was in line ages ago, and got the e-mail saying I could buy, but it was for my “home” address. Just waiting impatiently now for the FCC approval and the okay from Starlink.
Jealous about the Yamaha. Can’t get them in the US, and I can’t believe Yamaha is so behind the times about EFI.
My 25 year old Mercury 3.3 2 stroke starts after six months on the second pull.
Yep, on Bumfuzzle 2 I waited until we got to Mexico to buy our last Yamaha 15.