We are sort of boat bound today(Wednesday) as the winds have picked up from yesterday and are now howling past our boat in the high 20s with forecasts of them getting into the 30s. The sound reminds me of sitting inside our home in Colorado, listening to a Winter blizzard come through. While it in the high 80s, the sound still can send shivers through our bodies as we sit here sweating. Not a bad time to go out scuba diving if your dinghy or dive boat is big enough but there are white caps running all through the bay. Just about everyone is sitting still on their boats hoping it will lessen up as time goes by. Two days ago, Buoy Weather had it for a "Danger" day up from just a "Small craft advisory". So here we sit, reading stories on the internet and on our Kindles. I've no idea if these high winds are the "normal" for Bonaire but a man we spoke to when we were golf carting it around the island told us that he was tired of the slow winds we had been having recently. He was more than ready for the "normal" winds to return. Maybe this is "normal"?

I took out one of our frozen chicken breast and Tracy is looking for some wonderful way of using it. Time will tell. I just found out--it's going to be Yellow Curry with chicken!!! It doesn't get much better than that!!!

Meanwhile the wind generator is spinning nicely on the stern and we are putting off running our generator till later so we will have plenty of volts to get us through the night. I'm happy to report that Digicel finally straighten out our accounts and we have gone back to a "normal" higher speed internet from a VERY slow internet. It only took three trips in(and suffering in their air conditioned office) but that still better than having to go through everything we did with AT&T back in the US Virgins. What a pain they were.

Yesterday(Tuesday) as I wandered through town on my way to the Customs and Immigration office, I found myself surrounded in tourists!! A cruise ship had come in and there were more people milling around down town than I've seen is a week or more. It's slower time here now with apparently only one smaller cruise ship coming in one day a week so all the vendors are set up and ready to go long before the first passenger ever gets off the boat. The people we rented the golf cart from last week told me they are up at 0430 and taking their carts to the dock and all set up by 0700. These ships stay till about 1700 when they toot their horn and and take off for their next port of call. We didn't check to see where they are going but figure by their course, it's either Curacao or Aruba. It was great seeing all the shops open in town. While it's a tourist destination for scuba divers, and it does generate a ton of money for the island, the occasional cruise ship is a nice boost. Bonaire, other than their diving and the occasional beach has little to offer the typical tourist.

It's now 1430 and I have the generator running on the stern. It's still blowing in the 20 knot range so the DuoGen is spinning nicely but I want to make sure, should the wind die as it does most nights, that we still have plenty of power left in our six batteries. When it's blowing, the volt meter shows us with plenty of volts but when the wind slacks off, even for a couple of seconds, the volt meter shows that the voltage is down and the batteries need charging so that's just what we are doing. It's been partly cloudy all day and the winds have stayed strong making every ones boats swing around on the end of their mooring lines. I went out a short time ago to check ours. We have the original two that the country supplies going down to the three big weights on the bottom and then the extra line we put down there attached to one of our shackles. The original two lines are in much better condition than the ones that were on our earlier mooring ball when we first arrived bacl on the 8th and that alone makes us feel safer. Add on one of our own lines and it's even better. We sleep well at night but still on guard should something happen. We do make sure to close up all the hatches at night since we never know when the occasional squall might sneak in on us(and it has).

Tomorrow, should the wind die off a bit, we will be off for more scuba diving. Meanwhile we sit and read and listen to the generator for another hour or so.

The picture today is of the fruit and veggie section at the big super market we visited a bit over a week ago when we had the golf cart. Best selection we've seen in a while and oh so fresh.