Kralendijk

Kralendijk (pronounced: crawl-len- dike) is the capital city and main port of Bonaire. The name is an alteration of a Dutch word that means "coral dike". The locals call it "Playa" or Beach. The population of the entire island is about 26,000.
 

This is the main drag of Kralendijk. The buildings are typical Dutch style.  At the top of the building on the corner you can see there are two flamingos adorning the front of the building.

Since Covid, many of the stores are now empty and closed. The Hague has been supporting the citizens and businesses throughout this pandemic.  The socialist country paid businesses to keep their employees working, they paid for a portion of everyone's utilities, and generally poured money into the economy to keep everything they could going.  Without the dollars spent by US tourists, the economy is slowly scaling back to the pre-tourist era of the 1990's.

Most of the government buildings look like this.  I think they paint everything orange because the King and Queen of Holland are from the House of Oranje.  It looks more like golden yellow to me.

Fort Oranje, was built in 1639 to defend the harbor. The English settled the town next to the fort in 1810. The Dutch took it back in 1840 and named it Kralendijk.

This is sea side of the City. It runs the length of the town.  It is filled with restaurants and shops. There is a paver sidewalk along the sea and people swim, dive and snorkel right off the sidewalk. 

For those of you that live in Denver, notice the tent in the background that looks just like DIA.  This tent covers a restaurant that is on a jetty.                                   

The shipment of our stuff from Miami is scheduled to arrive March 2.  This could be the container ship that carried our belongings. This is the port side of the city where cargo ships and cruise ships come to dock.  All the food for the island is brought in via cargo ships from this dock. Each Friday food arrives.  Saturday is a big day at he grocery store because all the fresh stuff is stocked. I wish there was a container that said Amazon on it.