On Monday, we drove to the east side of Bonaire to have lunch and watch the windsurfers at Sorobon Beach on Lac Bay (orange dot on map, below). The conditions here are perfect for windsurfing: a steady, 20-knot onshore breeze; and a relatively shallow and waveless protected bay, making Sorobon beach a favorite of those … Continue reading →

In the southern Caribbean Sea, a mere 50 miles off the coast of Venezuela, lay the three adjacent islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, the “ABC Islands.” For the first 55 years of my life, the ABC Islands, together with the three much smaller Leeward Islands of Sint Maarten, Saba and Sint Eustatius, were known … Continue reading →