Sunday, March 19, 2017
After staying put in the studio from Thursday until today, we went to the Washington Slagbaai National Park via a rented truck. The roads are not suitable for low to the ground cars, so a truck or jeep is necessary. The park is located in the northern end of Bonaire. It is a combination of the former land plantations owned by the Washngton and Slagbaai families. These plantations supplied salt, charcoal, aloe extract, divi-divi pods, and goats for export to Curacao and Europe. Amber went with us. Here are the pictures of the park.

Amber Boven, a Dutch intern we met who was staying at Elisabeth's other studio, enjoying the ride in a "big" truck.

This is the skeleton of a whale that was impaled by a cruise ship in 2000. High school students reconstructed the 40 foot Bryde's (pronounced "borr-dess") whale's skeleton.

Some land formations of the park.

Suplado Blowhole

Amber on one of many sharp rocks.

Stan and Diana at Boko Kokolishi

Parrots

Iguana

Snorkeling at Wayaka II

Amber cliff jumping

Flamingos

Flowering Cactus

We all went to dinner that evening at Breeze 'n Bites, recommended by Amber. Tomorrow we leave for Aruba for the next 15 days.

Wednesday, March 15, 2017
We took Amber to Immigration Office to get her situation cleared up. She had to pay a fee for being in the country. While she took care of that, Stan and I had breakfast at Between 2 Buns. We took Amber to her work place and then went grocery shopping and filled the car with gas so we could return it. At noon, we picked up Amber to get her bike and then we went to Julian's for lunch. Then we returned the car. We are now here without a car for a few days before we return to Aruba. 

Tuesday, March 14, 2017
We went to Boudoir for breakfast. I had egg, ham, cheese croissant and Stan had croissant and jam. 

We then went to Andrea I snorkel spot. The water was much calmer. I snorkeled, but did not see the 3 foot long parrot fish. We did see this red tail parrot fish in the waves!

Then we went to Te Amo Beach to snorkel. It was a sandy beach. There were pretty schools of blue tang fish, a funny looking spotted trunk fish, and I think the camera caught a turtle in the far background.

We went to Whataburger for the lion fish sandwich for $5.50. They had a sauce on it that I did not care for at all. I was disappointed.

Monday, March 13, 2017
Today we picked Amber up at the airport and took her to work. We then went to the surinam restaurant, Grace Place, for pom. It is just chunks of sauteed chicken in a sauce mixture of citrus juices, tomatoes, onions, salt, pepper, nutmeg. It is then served with rice and vegetables. We had eggplant.  

We went to the airport to make sure our tickets to Aruba were okay since Insel Air has cut back on their flights between islands and our flight time was changed. They assured us it was fine. We searched the grocery stores for bananas, but none were around. Thursday is the day they come, I was told.

Sunday, March 12, 2017
We went to Bobbejan's for their $18 special to share. It was BBQ chicken, ribs, and sateh. Fries and small salad came with it. It was big enough to feed us both.

Then we drove to the lookout point to view Rincon and take photos.

Saturday, March 12, 2017
We took Amber to the airport to catch a flight to Curacao to visit a friend. Then we went to breakfast. Stan went to Exito, a local breakfast shop where he had a breakfast of egg and ham and cheese on a bread roll. He had cappuccino and a piece of cheesecake. 

Then we went to Illy Coffee Company to see if they had croissants with egg, ham, and cheese for me. They said they would make one, so Stan had another cappuccino while I enjoyed my breakfast.

We went to Plaza Beach Resort and found that there is a $5 charge for using the beach and $5 charge for a lounge chair! Last week when we went there was no charge! We then went to Coco beach and snorkeled in hopes of finding the octopus we saw before, but did not. We went to Ruben's Snack for fish. This was once called Denise Snacks, but that was the aunt of the person who took our order. Ruben is his grandfather. 

Friday, March 10, 2017
We went to Kline Bonaire via water taxi for $15 each. 

We dropped our things off at the beach and got back on the boat. 

We were taken to the deep water at one end of the island where we jumped off the boat and drift snorkeled to the beach where our things were. The corals were amazing! We saw many of the same fish we usually do when we snorkel, but Stan saw 2 turtles and we saw a barracuda.

French Angelfish were very friendly and seemed to be chasing us as we snorkeled.

We got some photos of the Bonaire shoreline from the water taxi.

We left from Eden Beach Resort on the water taxi to Klien Bonaire.

We went to Zazu for fish and chips for lunch. It was in the Village Harbor. The service was terrible, and the fish was not that great. They have a blackboard that advertises their lunch special, and we have seen it several times. It was a mistake to try it! Only 4 small pieces of deep fried fish and tons of fries.