It's the end of our first week here (already) and we wanted to keep in touch, so decided to keep the ball rolling with these updates. Hope you don't mind getting this little weekly blog. We arrived in Bonaire to find our car washed and waiting for us at the airport and the house still in the condition we left it; except for the collection of Iguana poos outside the front door. We spent the first couple of days cleaning (an all pervasive red dust) and getting groceries in and activating our island cell phones and paying our bills. The new thing this week was having our septic tank pumped (the previous owners had never done it) just so we could say we knew when it was last done. Not eventful in any way. We've spent the rest of the week diving (sometimes with our neighbor and walking around in the kunuku (cactus choked countryside) looking for wet caves. The diving has been wonderful; the cave hunting not so much.
I have gotten "directions" from cavers I've contacted and locals too, but they say things like "follow the coast road 'till it makes a sharp bend then turn onto the dirt road there and follow the power line to the fifth pole and walk out into the kunuku heading west for several hundred yards and it's entrance is a small hole behind a Wiacaw tree." I've found several dry caves but no luck with a divable cave yet. The kunuku is impenetrable without boots, jeans, leather chaps and a machete and is so thick you couldn't see ten yards through it even if you were on the right track. So, I'm still searching, but have a GPS unit with me and can navigate without getting turned around and if I ever find what I'm looking for I can mark its position to be able to return to it with the gear to dive it.
All in all we're having a much more relaxed time this trip and Rexx seems happy to be back too.
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