Saturday, July 7, 2012

Bonaire July 2012 Day 9

Saturday, July 7, 2012


We got up about 5 a.m. to get ready to take Tim to the airport this morning for his 7 a.m. flight back to Houston and then to Phoenix. We dropped Tim off close to 6 a.m. and headed back to the hotel to do another dive (our last dive of the trip). I fixed omelets for Jody and I and then we all headed down to dive off the pier here at the hotel. It just was not he same without Tim along, though.


Not too long after we dropped in we all looked up to see a HUGE and I mean HUGE school of fish. This thing could have blocked out the sun. Eric and I have never seen a school of fish this large here in Bonaire ever before. I got some video of it and I think Eric got some good pictures. We swam along with it for a little while as they were not moving too fast and then in a split second they moved on. We were out for about 45 minutes to an hour and did not see anything else super exciting, but it is pretty hard to beat the huge school of fish. The visibility was probably the worst we have seen it this trip too.


After our dive we got busy rinsing all our equipment and clothing off really good so we could get stuff hung out to dry before packing it up this evening. After we all took a shower then we were ready to head out for our day of sightseeing. As per our usual Bonaire routine we went to the Donkey sanctuary first and drove through and petted a bunch of the donkeys. This time we decided to buy a bag of carrots to feed them too. Jody learned one thing, you don’t get out of the car with a bag of carrots. We all had to make a mad dash to get back in the car before we were trampled alive.


Then we headed over to Lac Bay for lunch and sat and watched the wind surfers. After our relaxing lunch at Lac Bay we then headed down the road that goes around the southeast end of the island. We got really lucky on our drive around here as we spotted some flamingos that were actually fairly close in so we pulled over to take some photos. Right after we pulled over another large flock of flamingos came flying in and landed with the group that we had originally spotted. It was really pretty seeing a large group of them airborne and then landing. I think Eric got some photos, but unfortunately I did not have my video camera out and ready or I could have gotten some awesome video.


We continued our tour on around the south end and got some pictures of the slave huts at White Slave. On our way toward downtown we dropped off the tanks that we had left in the car and then headed for downtown so Jody could see if she could find a souvenir Bonaire shirt. Since there was no parking close we dropped Jody off to shop while we went on down the road to Yellow Submarine to settle up our bill there and return our weights.


We then came back to the downtown area to pick up Jody and we found a parking spot so we ended up going into the dive shop downtown and buying a couple more things. At this point we were all pretty tired and decided instead of driving up North and doing the loop around the island up there that we would just head back to the hotel and get started on the packing. We had done a couple dives up that way already so Jody pretty much got the tour of the North end of the island already when we did those dives.


We made our way back to the hotel and Eric started the packing process while Jody laid down to have a nap and I typed up my blog. After Jody got up from her nap and we had finished most of our packing we had dinner here in the room. We had the large salad left over from Pasa Bon Pizza, some cardboard style dutch crackers with cheddar cheese, some white chocolate ice cream bars and what was left of the peanut butter chocolate chip cookies that I made and brought.

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