What's up, guys?
We arrived yesterday here to Bonaire in Bonaire.
You can't anchor.
You can only get mooring balls, and they're really close to shore.
So he was a little bit sketchy, but we did it.
So that's shore
we just got a morning ball.
I put the scooters in our dinghy.
We have to go get a covid test.
an antigen test here in Bonaire, because in Los Roques
they don't do any test, and then we'll go do the check-in.
And that's it.
These are the kind of things that you don't see in remote islands
The water's beautiful, and we didn't expect it to be so pretty.
When we arrived last night, it was like it looked
really, really dark blue like, dark, dark.
But still, it's like super pretty.
And you can see the corals from the boat.
So it's really, really nice.
Yeah.
Ready to go.
So, guys, we arrived at
The health center it's called.
Bonvida
and we are going to do an antigene test.
It's $65 per person. So. Yeah.
So we are here in the place where they do the test and
they're checking our passports.
And Alejo is getting the scooters because we had to go to another place
it like burned my right eye.
Yeah, I don't know, right nose. Right eye.
I don't know if I've got a connection there.
We made it to the supermarket in Bonaire.
You already checked in. You.
Yeah.
We just did the check-in and customs and immigration
and we just made it to a supermarket.
And we haven't seen so many fruits and veggies in months.
Wait six dollars?
are you kidding me?
it's been a while since we've seen so much different variety of things.
Like we got tomatoes, we got limes, we got strawberries, we got apples.
And we're not even done yet.
And zucchini.
So we're super stoked to be able to have food again.
I don't know if you can tell.
We're so happy right now.
We haven't seen such a big supermarket in like since the U.S.
So this is very exciting.
This is the kind of things that you don't see in remote islands
where we've been like Grenadines, Venezuela, like
like Los Roques...
well, we didn't go to a supermarket in los Roques
So I'm pretty sure they weren't
they don't have all of the things that they have here.
They have lines and lines and lines
So you are taking that then.
They are the only ones they have.
They don't have double stuffed
These are the
luxuries of the first world countries.
So, guys, we are here anchored.
Can you see those lights right there?
They're doing a night dive.
I mean, it's crazy here. It's like 60 feet.
And you can see your lights perfectly.
We are in Bonaire,
one of the most beautiful scuba diving spots in the world.
I think you said it was number three.
Yes, it's ranked.
It's ranked number three. So we are excited.
We're getting our gear ready, ready to go down.
Seems like Alejo just saw a shark
Did you?
I think I did
it wasn't that big. So it's not.
Very scary
These next couple of days, we're just going to be diving every single day
doing one dive
and we're going to start doing this one, which is right behind our boat.
Yesterday, some people were doing a night dive here.
We've seen a lot of people do dives this morning.
So it seems like this is a good spot.
We're going to go for another dive
The dive spot is called Andrea 1 and 2
Is there anything you would like to say?
We're going to put on the wetsuit already, have the tanks in the dinghy.
We're going to go by dinghy so we don't have to move the whole boat.
It's about two nautical miles away.
So we can get there pretty fast.
So, guys, we just made it back on the boat
and we had an amazing dive.
It was so beautiful.
If you guys saw
not disappointing at all, I have to say, I was a little disappointed
yesterday by the dive, but this one did not disappoint at all.
Everywhere you look, there was lots and lots of schools of fish.
Super beautiful
the corals, you know
They just seem like super squishy and super fluffy and just fish everywhere.
Excited to see all the other spots.
But this was like the first good one
the waves are actually really, really choppy as you go further out.
So what we're going to do is we're actually
going to move the boat tomorrow.
We're going to move it all the way out there
and start doing like maybe two or 3 dives per day.
The thing is, that here you can't anchor you can only use a mooring ball
and the morning balls that are at the dive sites.
They're only to be used during the day, which means that we have to come back here
in front of that,
like the little town to anchor to get the mooring ball for the night.
I think here in Bonaire, we're going to do like all the dives
that we haven't done in like two years
How do you feel about the dive baby?
good.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was really nice.
Lots of fish, lots of corals.
It's crazy because we were diving today.
We were like 50-60 feet deep
without out realizing
and without
even realizing it, you can go down to like a hundred feet deep.
So it's always like diving, I think, like walls or something.
And you can actually, you know, in a second,
if you don't pay attention to your depth, you could be like, you know,
going from 40 to like 70 feet in like that.
What's up guys,
so today is Saturday and we're going to be moving to the north part of the island.
So here in Bonaire, you can only get mooring,
you can't anchor.
So there's only one place that you can stay overnight,
which is the mooring field.
And you can see right here.
So you can see the whole boats
Moorings are about from $10 to $11 a night.
We're going to head over to the Dive site, which is on the north
part of the island.
We're going to try to do one or two dives.
We'll see...
we have Casper here
It's sunblock, you can't risk
not wearing sunblock here where it's
super sunny.
Where are we right now?
We are in a diving spot called A Thousand Steps
and we are about to go down,
go to go diving.
it's supposed to be a really nice spot
We're ready to have the dive tanks ready and
and on the way here, one of the engines,
the port engine,
when we try to turn it off, it doesn't turn off.
The key doesn't work.
we're going to start
I don't know.
We'll see.
We're going to do it.
Yeah.
We're going to do the dive with the engine on, leave it on.
we'll see we'll see what we'll do.
I don't want to turn it off right now because right now,
as you can see, our stern is into the rocks.
And to release the boat from the mooring,
we're going to need the two engines to be able to maneuver our way out.
So I just want to leave it on.
Probably
It will take us like 30, 30 to 40 minutes diving, that's nothing for the engine
that's going to be like point two gallons of diesel.
The only bad thing is going to be adding hours to the engine.
But yeah, I mean, it doesn't matter.
And then we'll go back to where we were moored
and that's it.
And then I'll troubleshoot it there.
They're boat stuff people
this is owning a boat.
How exciting.
So let's go diving for now.
Let's release all the energy
that is not feeling positive today
because we've had like my parents are coming to visit us.
We don't know if they should bring the dogs or not
because in the next couple of sails are going to be super rough.
I got a notice on the mail saying that I have to serve jury duty,
which means that I have to go and travel to the United States.
I can't be exempted even if I live on like tell them that I live on the boat.
I told them I called,
they wont exempt me, which means I have to travel to the United States.
Alejo has to travel with me
because you know, he's not going to stay here,
especially when we don't know how long it's going to take.
I can only postpone it once.
So it seems like we're going to postpone it for June.
But if we have to go in June, it's like, should we really bring the dogs here
for a sail from Aruba to Colombia when it's one of the roughest sales
of the Caribbean, because that's where all the waves from the Caribbean end up.
So we don't want to do that.
It's completely unnecessary, especially when they're super happy.
Right now, they're just with my parents,
you know, with my sister and my brother in law.
And they take it.
They're taking so much good care of them, spending all day with them,
taking them for walks.
They're running, they're like they're doing all this good stuff.
So, you know, like, we don't want to be selfish.
And like, for us, not seeing them and not being with them, like,
have them have a really bad time, you know, so something else
to think about today.
So that's why we need to release that energy
into the
world, into the ocean and start feeling some positive vibes again.
See the beautiful, beautiful animals underwater.
And that's going to bring some positive vibes to us.
So let's see you underwater
What's up, people?
So we are going to town.
We are going to get some groceries and just ride around in the scooters.
It's another beautiful day all the diving gear is out.
So yeah, we're just going to take the scooters
Go to shore.
And drive around for a little
This is the beautiful Bonaire
beautiful water
and that's it!
so guys.
So we just came back on the boat.
From going in town. and it was super cool.
We actually it was formula.
What do you call in English? Formula one?
I think in Spanish Formula one.
And it was like the first race of the season,
and there was a bar that was playing it and Alejo really wanted to see it.
So we just stopped there and stayed for the entire race, which was super cool
because, well, at first we're like, Why is everyone yelling for Max?
I mean, this guy is like he's a really good driver, but he's not that likable.
We're like, "I understand", you know,
and everyone was booing Lewis Hamilton and stuff, and I'm like, Why?
You know?
And then we realized, obviously, he's from Holland.
Everyone here is from Holland.
They were like singing
the anthem and super excited that the guy was, you know, winning the race.
Well, not winning, that was second.
And then he was able to pass the Ferrari guy.
Then we went around a little town, which was nice.
And we really, really loved Bonaire, super cool Island, super organized
you don't see trash in the street.
You don't see you know, it's not dirty at all.
It's like people are super nice, but it's just the language, man.
It's so hard.
We don't understand anything people say here.
Do you understand Dutch? No.
No. No Dutch for me.
Yeah, we don't understand anything people say here.
I did understand a guy when he was like saying "lekker"
and then I was like, Oh, Simone and
Ricky taught us that word, remember?
Lekker man, Lekker!
Like, it's like
it's apparently like South Africa has some Dutch history or something.
That's what Simone and Ricky told us.
So they have some Dutch in them.
So I think it's a Dutch word that is also so said in South Africa.
So correct me if I'm wrong, but I think so.
Yea, it was pretty nice. We had lunch.
We saw the Formula One race.
Oh, it is Formula One? That's how they say it in English?
Formula One. I wasn't sure if it was like,
OK, it was like maybe Formula first.
It's a super nice island.
It's like the Caribbean.
The Caribbean mixed with Europe
and everything is like super organized.
It's nice, it's clean.
Everything.
And the boat and the dinghy and our computers is covered in dust. Yes.
So why. Is it. It's horrible.
You can see
like the whole boat stay thirsty.
And they just cleaned it like two days ago or yesterday when we came
from the dive, I threw buckets of water all around the boat.
Now, it's again like brown and it's because the winds come in
and we're on the leeward side and the island is pretty flat.
So all the dust arrives to the other side of the island.
And yeah, that's why.
But yeah, we're having a good time.