Wednesday, June 3, 2009. We got up about 8:00 a.m. Bonaire time and enjoyed sitting on the balcony facing the ocean and enjoying the cool morning breeze. Eric and I then headed back down to the Windsock dive site which is a very short drive down the road. The entry for this site is probably the easiest you will find around here. We were actually the only ones on the entire stretch of beach and thus had the water all to ourselves. We saw a very rare mola mola, some very beautiful Queen Angelfish, Bar Jack, a big snapper, Rock Beauty, of course lots of parrotfish, squirrelfish, several different types of scrawled filefish, a large honeycomb cowfish, and several big spotted scorpionfish. The water at the dive site is just busy with fish—kind of like swimming in an aquarium. After our dive we headed back to the hotel to clean off and enjoy lunch on some of our many leftovers from the various restaurants we had been to in the previous days. After lunch we headed out to visit the Donkey Sanctuary. They have a very nice facility where they take care of abused and abandoned wild donkeys and feed them and give them medical care, etc. They have over 400 donkeys. It is kind of like going on safari. You drive around a big loop on the property and all the donkeys come up to your car and stick their heads in wanting food (you can buy a bag of food to feed them). We did not buy any food, but they still mob your car to see if you have anything good to eat. We were told if you do have food, they will practically climb in the car with you. They are actually very smart. It seems they all work together—one stands in the middle of the road to stop your car and then all the rest crowd around to see if they can get some goodies. When we first went into the sanctuary I had to actually back the car up to get them to move away enough so I could go forward again. This is where they also have the Donkeycam at the “donkey cafeteria” that is another one of the live webcams featured on the www.bonairewebcam.com website. After we got done at the donkey sanctuary we headed downtown to the dive shop and the Last Bite Bakery. We went into the bakery to see if they had key lime pie and they did not, but the lady in the bakery is going to make a whole key lime pie just for us, which we will be picking up tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. After dinner Eric, Dick, and I decided to try a night dive off the pier of our hotel. Eric and I had never done a night dive before. We did not go very deep but got some awesome pictures and saw a couple things we had never seen before. We actually got better pictures during the night dive with extra lighting from flashlights than we have so far during the daytime dives. Tomorrow morning we have a two-tank boat dive planned to Klein Bonaire which is an island just off the shore of Bonaire. We will be leaving at 8:45 a.m. and will be back by1:00 p.m.
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