This morning’s message by Pastor Baran at International Bible Church was from Revelation 2 on the church at Thyatira. In Sunday school we viewed and discussed a video bible study by Dick Woodward on the book of Romans.

For dinner we had left-over Nasi chicken, again with mango chutney because we liked it so much.

This afternoon we decided to take a drive up the west coast of Bonaire. Our drive took us past the Dutch World Radio (Radio Nederland) shortwave broadcasting station. TWR relayed some of Radio Netherlands programs from 1964 until they built this facility about 1974.

Since BOPEC is a high security facility with a pier for loading and unloading oil tankers, we had to skirt around their perimeter fence to get back to the west coast road to the north. It is hard to get a good photo

of BOPEC, but I saw a small break in the cacti. By chance, and by holding my camera way over my head, I happened to get a photo of the tank that burned after a lightening strike in September. This road ended only a few kilometers north of BOPEC at Playa Frans, where there a couple of houses belonging to fishermen. It is a rather unique place to travel with some fairly rugged coast line.

I am always on call, especially after the transmitter goes on the air at 5:30pm. By retracing the route taken, we figured we would be back home

about 5:30, but, about half way home (time-wise), we encountered a ‘detour’. Only upon seeing the ‘do not enter’ symbol on the sign post on our anticipated return route, did we realize that part of the road that we had previously traveled is now ONE WAY going north. This was not the case 40 years ago, and, both times we have taken part of this route in the past four weeks, we returned another way. The only way we knew to get back was through Rincon, then to the east coast and back to Kralendijk. We got back about 6pm and the transmitter was OK.

It was raining when we got back, so we decided not to walk or swim [we might get wet!]. Actually a breeze is still blowing from the west and the surf is very rough.

We checked at the salt pier this evening and noted that the third of five holds was being filled. We also stopped by the office and called my mother.

NOTE #1 — Click on the highlighted ‘Playa Frans‘ above, or here, to see an amazing panaroma. Also click on this one –> Nukove and see how calm the waves usually are on the west coast of Bonaire.

NOTE #2 — To see a bigger (and in some cases, expanded) version of any of the images, just click on the one you want to enlarge.