Best of Mike #44

Like most places Bonaire has more than one claim to fame. Even more than one sporting claim to fame.

On the windward side of the island there is a a shallow, sheltered bay ..... Lac Bay. It's here that the windsurfers hangout and do their thing.

On the last day of each trip, we don't dive ..... for a number of reasons. It helps with the off-gassing of the nitrogen that has built up in our bodies, it gives us time to wash and dry our scuba gear, before packing and it gives us some time to sightsee above the water line.

Lac Bay has a little beach bar and it's always fun to hang out there for a beer or two and watch the windsurfers doing there thing in the bay. It is pure coincidence that right next door there is a nudist colony.

I have never seen the fully unclothed on the beach here. But topless is something that many of the European women who visit Bonaire are comfortable with, especially on the beach at Lac Bay ..... even someone's Grandma is likely to be seen topless here.

Come to think of it, we haven't been back to that bar since. Probably wasn't the trauma of seeing a topless grandma.

It's probably just that "kite boarders" have come to Bonaire. They use a different beach and are more exciting to watch ..... than windsurfers.