Kralendijk, Netherlands Antilles Travel Blogs

Bonaire, am I impressed yet???
Jul 29, 2007 (12 photos)

... really think of a reason, nor do we ask. Tony asks whether we can transfer the amount to her bank account in the Netherlands. Yes, if we pay 14 Euro extra. Why???? Because that is the costs she pays. Noooooooooooo. Nobody pays costs to receive money. And ...

NOT happy holiday homes
Jul 31, 2007 (9 photos)

We get up early, chat a bit, drive to the diving shop to pick up our tanks and Tony takes me to the first diving site. Yes, I am still nervous. But: it is great! He finds everything! Morays, turtles, lots of trunk fish. He finds the way back in time (my ...

Cry baby, cry
Aug 4, 2007

We are at our diving site around 10. It does say difficult entry and exit but well, we can handle it. NOT!!! Coming out, the waves are tossing us back and forth, like balls in the ocean. At a certain point in time, when the water reaches your waist, ...

I am the man
Jul 30, 2007 (7 photos)

We are at the orientation at 9.  A pretty Dutch girls gives a briefing. Nothing we do not know yet: do not take anything but pictures, do not leave anything but bubbles. We know that! Get your gear and do the orientation dive from the resort. But ...

My Hubby my Hero
Aug 1, 2007 (30 photos)

And puts our gear together (is he not PERFECT?) We go diving, the top 2 dives of my life. No, no because of the trunk fish, turtles, morays, ... but because of my Hubby. Cannot say more! Getting in and out of the sea is a struggle, here you see divers ...

No diving but ...
Aug 3, 2007 (1 photos)

... toilet! Is this the meal, which did it? Did what? Send me off to the toilet for hours!!! Looks pretty innocent to me! And Dr T had almost the same. This time it was me: the tourista. I bring Tony's coffee an hour later than usual and ...

Bonaire
Nov 13, 2008 (11 photos)

It turns out that I had another friend from Utila living on Bonaire, that I only found out about once I got to Curacao. So I jumped over there and stayed on his couch for three days. Bonaire has only about 14,000 people on it, and is much drier. ...

Bonaire
Jan 17, 2008 (6 photos)

DAY 11   Awoke to a beautiful sunrise over Bonaire and managed to take a photograph. Our first impression of Bonaire was of a very beautiful and colourful island. All the buildings were brightly painted in a multitude of colours. Our plan was to ...

Final day of diving
Jun 20, 2009 (20 photos)

Today was our last day of diving since it is highly recommended that you have 24 hours without diving before flying—don't want to decompress on the plane. We started out at a site near our condo called Windsock.  We had snorkeled this site our first ...

Emily's our official lookout
Jun 14, 2009 (6 photos)

Ten and a half hours of sleep is sure nice!  We started out our morning with plans to dive at a deep reef called Alice in Wonderland, but when we got there we found way too many cars for our liking (that's what we get for sleeping in, right?).  We headed ...

Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
Dec 28, 2008 (19 photos)

... floor of our hotel restaurant), and damaged some of the coral near shore.   Bonaire is part of the Netherlands Antilles; they recently voted to strengthen their ties to the Netherlands and are basically regular Netherlands citizens (as I understand ...

Arrived Bonaire
Apr 28, 2008 (2 photos)

Arrived this morning in good nick having slept most of the way. Still went to bed and slept like logs for a couple of hours After breakfast we grabbed a couple of sunbeds and slept for most of the day. This is going to be a sleepy holiday. Diving ...

Finally got our car
Apr 29, 2008 (1 photos)

We finally collected our car (Mitsubishi L200 Pick Up). Some sort of cock up by a member of the hire company meant we didn't have a booking. Got in touch with with our tour operator who advised us to rent locally as it would be cheaper anyway????.

Bonaire--a divers'--uh, snorkeler's--heaven
Nov 14, 2008 (11 photos)

... !  Lots of beautiful fish!  All right off the back of the boat which was moored right off the shore of Kralendijk, Bonaire's major city.  Thanksgiving with good friends, Karen and Jason of YOLO--and a great tour of the pretty island--with ...

And so it begins...
Jun 13, 2009 (4 photos)

After a long red-eye flight, we arrived in Bonaire at 5am local time this morning.  We had hoped to hit the ground running, but we were up all night thanks to a loud woman right behind us on the flight, so we were exhausted.  Our condo wasn't ready (we knew ...

Klein Bonaire
Jun 19, 2009 (21 photos)

When we were in Cayman we learned that diving can set off Paul's asthma, so we now bring an albuterol inhaler with us.  Unfortunately, Paul lost it yesterday…and needed it today in the rough surf.  Because of this, he ended up sitting out the first ...

All good things must come to an end.
Jun 21, 2009 (9 photos)

Today is our last day in Bonaire.  It is also Paul's birthday. We had a leisurely morning and then headed off to the northern end of the island. We started out on the western coast, checking out the rough entrances for the dive sites along there.  At one ...

bonaire
Jun 3, 2007

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There's Something in the Bonaire
Dec 11, 2008

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Bonaire Flora and Fauna
Dec 30, 2008 (22 photos)

Being from New Mexico, we have a definite affinity for deserts. We like the desert itself, but also the clear air and blue skies that go along with that type of environment; this is also the case with Bonaire. Bonaire is covered with cacti. You can't walk ...

wow, lots of fish!
Jun 17, 2009 (16 photos)

... the best dive so far. We decided to stop at two dives today to give us a bit of a break.  This afternoon we went into Kralendijk, the main city in Bonaire.  We checked out souvenir shops and wandered around.  We had some pizza at a local place.  I tried tuna ...

Arrival to Boniare via Curacao
Apr 11, 2004 (2 photos)

We arrived in Curacao and immediately found it difficult to get to Boniare - it seems the airline wasn't flying that day (I suppose someone decided they just felt like lounging that day?), fortunately a different company (much more professional) was ...

Bonaire
Feb 6, 1996

I knew it was starting to get serious with Erin when she agreed to take this trip with me. she did her SCUBA check-off dives here and we had a lovely time- drove to the pink flamingo preserve

floating away
Jun 15, 2009 (16 photos)

Today we rented an underwater camera (which we'll have for the next few days), so I’ve been playing with pictures.  In the past, my underwater picture yield has been 1-2 for every 100 taken…today was much better!  I’ll spare you most of ...

Buddy Dive Resort
Jan 1, 2009 (10 photos)

We stayed at Buddy Dive Resort just north of the main town of Kralendijk. It's a nice place, though not fancy, and reasonably priced. Bonaire is not a particularly cheap place to stay or eat. They have to import everything, and there isn't a lot of ...

SCUBA Diving and Underwater Photos
Jan 5, 2009 (47 photos)

This was the primary purpose for our trip, and we thoroughly enjoyed the diving. There are unspoiled reefs teeming with life, no crowds, perfect weather, 80oF water, calm seas, and no current to speak of. The best thing about it is the easy diving access. ...

more fish!
Jun 16, 2009 (14 photos)

I'm sure you’ll all be shocked to hear that today we went scuba diving.  Bam! Out of the blue! Actually, today was a little different because our first 2 dives of the day were boat dives instead of shore dives.  It was a nice, small group: 6 total ...

Bonaire
Jan 2, 2008

... c'est incroyable. Mariette décide qu'elle est très bien sur le navire et me laisse donc sortir seule. Je descends vers 14h00. La ville de Kralendijk est tout près. On s'y rend en moins de 5 minutes à pied. Il n'y a pas grand chose d'ouvert, on est le 1 ...

Bonaire, Netherland Antilles
Dec 27, 2008 (15 photos)

... of Bonaire, where hardly any tourists go. We like it that way. We rented a one-bedroom apartment in the small sweet town of Kralendijk which had a pool and a view of the bay and of the tiny island of Klein (Little) Bonaire. We rented a small 50 cc ...

Learning to Dive
Apr 15, 2004 (8 photos)

A few days in Bonaire and already I feel the cold grip of Toronto loosening! Since we couldn't dive right after flying, we started off exploring the island, and found out that about 30% of Bonaire's GDP (Gross Domestic Product) comes from salt - that ...