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Last night, we organized an historic walking tour and pub crawl in Kralendijk, Bonaire. Barbara found a brochure in the tourist office and thought it would be fun to do - especially by adding the pub crawl part. Our friends Jamie and Lucy were game enough to go along (they really are good sports and fun company!). There were 25 sites (not including the pubs) including a plaque dedicated to Eleanor Roosevelt, a WWII memorial (Bonaire lost more sailors than any other Dutch island in the war), a Simon Bolivar bust, some old British cannons (age being challenged by Jamie!), the W sitting bench and St. Bernard's church - though we're still trying to figure out why the statue of St. Bernard is holding a skull. Anyone know? It was a really fun and interesting evening. It ended up with a dinner at a Chinese restaurant and an ice cream finale.

We also enjoyed a terrific snorkel yesterday. We saw some interesting fish including huge tarpon, big barracuda, a very large scrawled filefish, trumpet fish, porcupine fish and many more. The best part - as we headed back towards Astarte, Michael spotted a Hawksbill Turtle. Barbara stayed watching him quite awhile and he finally came up for air - and came up very close to her. She was within a few feet of him and he wasn't spooked. Very cool.

We got some fuel - but the good news was we only ran the engine 13 hours since leaving Grenada. That was 5 weeks ago! We only needed about 5 gallons of diesel. We're using more gasoline for the dinghy than fuel for the big engine. That's good for the cruising budget.

Today (Saturday), we made a run to the grocery store - in search if fresh fruit - the Venezuelan vegetable sellers haven't been here for 4 days! Then we went to a boat "So Cal, So Good" (from San Diego) to pick their brains about the San Blas islands. They were there for three months very recently - so we thought it would be helpful to get some local knowledge. They were great folks and offered lots of good info.

Tonight - we're off to a wine tasting at the Antillean Wine Company with some other boats. It should be fun.