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BONAIRE ! ... Just the Diving
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But, we will do an island driving tour later; for that go here.
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GETTING HERE
Our very accommodating neighbour, Tony (once again) drove us from our home in Wellington to the Belleville train station at around 11:00 am. We were on the VIA Rail train by 12:30 pm and in the Sheraton Gateway Hotel in Toronto by 4:00 pm; after a couple of additional shorter commuter and airport train travel segments between. We'll overnight here. This is a very relaxed way for us to travel and eliminates the hassle of winter driving on Hwy 401 into TO. We had some snow overnight so unfortunately we were not able to completely escape shovelling the driveway out before leaving.
We departed for BONAIRE the following morning at 10:10 am. It's a 5h 30m direct flight to Flamingo International Airport, (also called Bonaire International Airport). The airport is located near Kralendijk on BONAIRE's west coast. We had an overall delay of slightly more than 1.5 hours; waiting for a replacement cabin crew member, tug truck difficulties pulling the plane out of a frozen puddle, de-icing the plane.
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PHOTOS ONLY
If you prefer to skip over all the boring, diving-related text that I've written to accompany this post; click on any image or photo. That will launch a minimized gallery on your screen that you can just scroll (< >) through.
AND, just in case you wondered where BONAIRE is; here's a map.
