This morning, the International Bible Church had their monthly men’s breakfast, so us men went. The breakfast food was pancakes with bananas, egg casserole, and sausages. The pastor had a Bible study titled “Theophany” after breakfast.  The focus was on the Trinity and on man being created in the image of God. One simple thought stood out to me—man is the only creation of God that prays to Him.

Internet is out again at the duplex, so we stopped just outside the TWR office on the way to and from the breakfast to send and receive emails plus make phones calls to moms and spouses.

After getting back to the duplex, we had time to drive around the south end of the island, since the cousins had not been there yet. What did we see? First there is the transmitter site, then the salt pans, the salt pier, slave huts, kite surfing, flamingos, radar tower for marine traffic, lighthouse (southern tip of Bonaire), crashing waves all along the rocky east coast, small windmills that pump salt water from ocean inlets into salt pans, a large wind turbine (the first one that was built on Bonaire) to generate electricity, the donkey sanctuary, then back to the duplex.

For lunch the ladies set out all the leftovers from the week. These were all consumed, freeing up much needed space in the refrigerators.

This afternoon, Jim, Jake, Philip and Brian did some exploring to find some caves located a few miles north of Kralendijk, the capital of Bonaire. Although these caves were well known and explored 40 years ago, it seems they are now kept fenced off and accessible only by using tour guides. Even so, they were able to explore the rugged terrain found outside the populated areas of Bonaire.

I took an hour long nap, before taking the ladies and Ralph to town to do some grocery shopping. Ralph and I explored a hardware store which obviously had been stocked by one of the hardware chains in the U.S. Lots of hardware in inch sizes and lots of tools. It was obvious that a lot of items had very little turnover as some of the tools had begun to rust, some more than others. The cause—probably because the store was not air conditioned like the other hardware store, Kooymans.

The ladies went to four grocery stores before they found everything on their short shopping list. Fortunately, three of the store were adjacent to each other and the fourth was just down the street about a block.

By the time we got back to the duplex, the explorers were back home and some were wanting to go for a swim before supper. So I drove Mark, Philip and Jake to Bachelor Beach and joined in on the cool-down. This evening the waves were a little higher than normal. This stirred up the sand which reduced visibility for viewing fish.

For supper the ladies made hamburgers and reheated pizza leftovers from last night. We also had applesauce and some of the young men had crackers and jam for dessert.