Best of Mike #30

Still at Boca Slagbaai, if you turn and look across the road, the vista before you is a pretty good representation of the "rest of Boniare".

In the foreground, what looks like rock, is really the dead and broken coral that makes up the land mass of Bonaire.

The thorn tree and a few cacti remind you that it is essentially a desert.

Some of the 14,000 flamingos that inhabit the island, are feeding in the briny, inland water.

And off in the distance, is Mount Brandaris, the highest point on the island, 787 ft above the level of the sea.