Odd Things

The local news site, Bonaire News, recently published an article about condom vending machines.  The government has placed these vending machines around the island and many are on the beaches.  Not in bathrooms at bars, but on the beaches of Bonaire.  Apparently, all the sex in Bonaire happens on the beaches.  Good to know.

Telbo is our internet provider.  Outside their office is a row of phone booths.  Each phone booth has a phone but the guts of the change boxes are gone. It is interesting to me that these antiques sit outside the building that is supposed to run high speed internet on the island. Yet our internet is not always reliable and seldom very fast. I wonder if pay phones are coming back?  Probably a backup for when the internet fails. Third world problems.

Out in the mundi, sits a house that looks like a medieval castle.  Nothing on the island looks like this.  The island architecture is predominately Dutch Caribbean.  It is one of the things that draw people to the island.  Yet here we have a castle. Seems odd to me.

Here is a fishing house that is built of pallets.  It is built on one of the only long, white sand beaches on the island.  It sits on expensive beach front property yet the structure is made of reclaimed wood pallets.  It must be grandfathered in or else it would have sold for millions and been renovated by now and turned into a VRBO.