Kralendijk
Travel Blogs from Kralendijk, Netherlands Antilles
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Bonaire, am I impressed yet???
... cannot 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 ...
NOT happy holiday homes
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
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 ...
I am the man
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
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 ...
No diving but ...
... 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 ...
spoiled
... ; it was Hubby and me, two men from New Mexico and one man from - never did catch where he was from but probably the Netherlands or Germany originally. Can't even begin to tell you how nice it was just to have ...
Wildlife of Bonaire or Dinner and a Show
Bonaire abounds in wildlife. Ok, most of it is marine, under the water, diving to see it wildlife but defintiely abundant. On top of the water, it seems to be birds and ...
Bonaire--a divers'--uh, snorkeler's--heaven
... ! 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 ...
Bonaire Baby!
A very early morning departure following a very late night made for very little sleep before leaving New York for Bonaire. Needless to say, we didn't see much of the flight to Bonaire. My friend Timothy and I stayed at the Deep Blue Inn Bed and ...
Driving the Island
Our last day in Bonaire. We can't dive today since we leave tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. So we sleep in late (around 8 a.m. is all) and head for breakfast and enviously watch the divers getting ready to ...
Bonaire
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. ...
Sort of Solid Ground
This was a day I had really longed for. I have never been anywhere near the Caribbean before, so I was really excited. And we were kind of desperate to set foot on solid ground again after all these days at sea! For the first (and only ) time on ...
island living
... ; Bonaire is part of the ABC islands, Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao which form the Netherland Antilles. They sit very close to Venezuela. Of the three, Bonaire is the smallest both in size and ...
Clogs and Conch Shells
We woke early enough and I was overjoyed that I was not land sick again. We had a smaller breakfast then made our way down to the gangway. It was early on a Sunday and I am not sure what we thought we were expecting to be open at 9am. Aaron and Cort had ...
Bonaire
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
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 ...
Snorkeling at Klein Bonaire and Kralendijk
Oh, oh....I have definitely gotten into the bad timing genie now. I got up at 9 am and potsed around getting ready, logged on to the computer, played around with battery charging and erased an sd card so I would have a free one to use once the ...
Wet on land and underwater
... in some really hot, soapy water before hanging them out to dry. Dinner was at Patagonia, an Argentinian steak house north of Kralendijk. We had some excellent steaks (even Paul had steak!) and got to sit on the waterfront. Bonaire fact of the day: ...
Emily's our official lookout
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 ...
Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
... second 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 ...
You want me to jump from where?!?
We have been diving on the southern end of the island, so we decided that at least some of our dives today should be northern sites. Since we wanted to have lunch in our condo we figured it would work out to do a morning dive in the south and two ...
try, try again
... Wattaburger (a Dutch fast food place) and had milkshakes. Bonaire fact of the day: Bonaire is currently part of the Netherlands Antilles, a group of islands that are territories of the Netherlands. On October 10 of this year the Netherlands Antilles ...
Snorkeling the reef and a Sunset Sail
Today I had nothing planned as of the morning and I thought maybe I would use the day for my cultural tour of Kralendijk. I took a long time getting out...as usual it seems...and used a brochure to find some of the historical sights. I had ...
Annabaai, Klein Curacao en Avis
Het binnenvaren van de Annabaai, een blik op Klein Curacao, booby's van de Avis eilanden en terug op ...
no seahorses to be found
This morning I was still congested, but much less so than yesterday. I took a max dose of Sudafed and we headed off to try a dive. Good news is that I was able to make all 3 of the dives today, but it took a lot of work and time to clear my ears each ...
Niederländische Antillen
Tag 96 - 102: Was am Tag 50 in Montevideo noch grosses Staunen auslöste, wurde gut 50 Tage später Wirklichkeit. Der kleine Mann vor dem grossen Schiff stand mit seiner Frau plötzlich auf dem grossen Schiff! Wir hatten also die günstige ...
Singing the Scooter Blues
... ; I was sad to see the road end, but it seemed over too fast. I headed back again through Rincon fromthen into Kralendijk, filled up the tank again, went back to the Lizard Inn, wrote out my postcards toheaded to the closer Macho Motors office to ...
Kralendijk, Bonaire
... Anilities that is referred to as the ABC Islands (Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao). Bonaire was part of the Netherlands Antilles until the country's dissolution on 10 October 2010, when the island (including Klein Bonaire) became a special municipality ...
Arrived Bonaire
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 ...
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