Harbour Village Marina
Kralendijk,
Bonaire
12.09.849N
68.17.088W

This morning was devoted to multitasking. Dale and Gerry headed over to Budget Marine to pick up a bearing replacement kit for our wind generator and a few other things that he couldn’t live without while Nicky & I stayed back and worked on the inside of the boat. I borrowed Nicky’s laundry machine for my delicates and ended up having about 3 loads. So I ran a clothesline in the cockpit again. In between loads, I’d work on my blog posts.

When Dale got back, I helped him take out the anchor chain to re-mark the depths on it; then helped to put it back in when he was done. Again, between calls I’d drop back below deck and try to catch up on my typing.

At one point, Dale ran Gerry up Orpailleur’s mast so that he could put hose on the ends of the spreaders so that their sail wouldn’t catch on the spreaders.

About the time I decided that each day in my posts was sounding like the previous, the internet dropped its signal. Good time for a break.

We piled into the little Suzuki and took off for downtown. We walked through a few jewelry stores and decided that they were extremely overpriced and then found our way down the quayside to the vegetable market, when the guys spied a sign advertising a Heiniken special. That was the end of our sightseeing. We had been looking for a “Bali” restaurant but it apparently went out of business since the cruising guides were last published.

Instead, we went to a restaurant called Salsa. It’s claim to fame is that it is located where the trash dump used to be and that they are into nature and natural things. Their laminated menus were inside cedar boards and their thatched roof had plastic webbing holding it in place but they had unique table settings where carved wood blocks held the salt & pepper shakers, cloth napkins and utensils. And even though the salt shaker reflected South Africa as its origins, the waitress assured us that the salt came from right down the road and they just refilled the shakers when needed.

We had a great time and although we didn’t solved any problems in the world, we recognized the fact that some do exist.