Great wind in Bonaire
Thursday, Friday and Saturday were windy, I’ve been sailing on a 5.0 or 5.7 and been overpowered some of the time. I’ve been having a great time doing vulcans and trying flakas, free willys and shove-its, now, too.
Friday we caught some pictures of Bjorn Saragoza (Jurgen’s brother) throwing some tricks.
Jim watching the pro kids.
Saturday a huge cruise ship was in port, the Queen Mary 2. It holds about 5,000 passengers. You can see how small it makes everything around it look, it makes the island look like a play toy.
Good wind since Tuesday
Sunday and Monday were NO wind days. Monday morning Kathy went on a bike ride on the southern loop of the island.
Here she is just before getting to the salt pier where ships get loaded with the salt.
The salt mine and stockpiles on an exceedingly calm day.
Here’s Kathy just after going under the conveyor.
I already posted for Tuesday, my first vulcans!
Here is Jurgen (he is a son of Constantino ‘Patoen’ Saragoza , one of the owners of Bonaire Windsurf Place) showing off with a gekko. He’s talented and cute. This was yesterday, Wednesday.
Wednesday I sailed on a 5.7 sail. At times a 5.0 would have worked but I didn’t change sails. I had a great day, quite a few willy skippers and many vulcan attempts but none completed. I also hurt my ankle slightly so I took a day off on Wednesday to let it rest. It was a windy day, too. Darn!
No Wind Saturday
No wind today so we toured the island and saw a few interesting sights. This is the Piedra Bonaire, or Rock of Bonaire. It is a sacred rock in their folklore and it is connected to the mother of Bonaire by an umbilical cord into the center of the earth, as shown in description below.
The soil around the rock is sacred and people who move away from Bonaire can take a handful of the soil, put it in a bag, and wherever they are they will be near their homeland, Bonaire.
We also went to see a gravel crusher. Of course, if Jim isn’t sailing he is interested in something like a gravel crusher. Click here to see the photos.
